32 years of age, eking out a living on the ITF (International Tennis Federation) circuit with a lower level of competition, less ranking points, currently ranked at 183, Britain’s Tara Moore has been banned for four years with the banned substances Nandrolone and Boldenone to be found in Moore’s system, to unofficially end the Brit’s career.

The point of the Manero callout at this juncture, is the differential in bans handed out previously to the Women’s world number 3 Iga Swiatek, one month ban, and a 3 month ban for the Men’s number 1 player Jannick Sinner for digesting banned substances, cowards and shisters run amok within the corridors of power. The variation in length of bans is open to question, to be higher up the rankings. The lesser the ban, lower down the rankings ones career can be finished with a lengthy ban, tennis is now a corrupt sport littered with cheats with the top seeds being offered protection, the 2025 Men’s and Women’s Wimbledon of the before mentioned, Sinner and Swiatek is not a good look for the sport. Time to expose the shocking details and lies within the Jannick Sinner team set up.

Sinner claims that his physio cut his hand on a scalpel and treated the cut with a steroid which contained the banned substance Clostebol and subsequently massaged inadvertently into Sinner’s system while treating a Sinner injury. The steroid in question, the tube marked with a red line and circled highlighting the banned substance which now could be headlined as a concocted narrative, has to be the case.

Trailblazers?

The England Women’s team success in lifting the European Championship has highlighted in some areas the huge marketable openings for the afforded few, style icons, social trailblazers, markable personalities, the select band afforded, Lucy Bronze has raked in 3-5 million pounds, Chloe Kelly, Lauren James and Alessia Russo are bracketed in the same parlance to a degree. The claim being is that on the commercial front the national team are outstripping the men to give the added edge the wearing of swimsuits on the media outlets attracts the commercial vibe all be it some are of a lesbian affair, an acceptable sequence in today’s public airings, but for a male footballer to come out as gay is frowned upon, closeted they remain, of a global survey the annual player salary marks at a paltry 8K a year which marks down the big boom in women’s football to be fractured to a degree, link to article Jan 9^th 2023 Society v Sport.

Answers to Quiz 5 July’s Edition

1. Leeds United
2. Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton
3. Steve Cruz
4. Jean Van Velde
5. Alex Higgins 2 time World Champion

Blast from the Past

The scene is set, 1987, on a cold October night, the venue, White Hart Lane, London. Prior to the fight in true Joe Bugner fashion having directed a barrage of insults at Bruno, who was under pressure from the English press core having lost in his previous fight to the WBC World Champion Tim Witherspoon with an insipid performance.

Bugner entered the ring attired in a yellow and green rope, a symbol of his desire to box under the Australian flag, Bugner in this particular sands of time was the most experienced heavyweight in the world having previously boxed fourteen boxers who had fought for world titles with the biggest profiled fights being to Muhammed Ali two times and Smokin’ Joe Frazier, as for Frank Bruno he had to restore his reputation, Bruno entered the ring in his customary red rope.

In the early stages of the fight (3 rounds) Bugner came out with intent to intimidate Bruno and on occasions was ducking his head near to Bruno’s forehead, vicious punches were being traded with Bruno’s jab was landing clean. In round 4, 37 years old Bugner was showing signs of his years as the Bruno bombs started to land, Bugner was gasping for air with his gumshield dislodged, Bruno continued to dictate the fight.

In round 5, a big chance came for Bugner with Bruno dropping his guard, chin exposed. Bugner fails to capitalize resulting in throwing a series of rabbit punches, a big Achilles heal during Bugner’s career, failure to finish opponents off. Into round 6 and history to be bookmarked down to enter into Joe’s 500^th professional round, Bugner receives a bloody nose to mark that occasion. The pressure to intensify on Bugner with Bruno’s accuracy at long range scrambling Bugner around the ring, the 18 stone Aussie adopted, convokes all of his experience to try to survive the Bruno onslaught, to stretch into round 8, Bugner is pinned in the corner and crashes to the canvas with Bruno’s combination punches raining down, the towel is thrown in. A competent performance by Bruno which subsequently had no knock-on effect with two quickfire defeats v Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis before finally realising his dream by defeating the American Oliver McCall to become the WBC heavyweight Champion of the World, the boxing fortitude of Frank Bruno.