Saturdays Weekender Bender

****ing hell Mighty you could have done with Haye at Wembley a few years back when those old ladies you started on kicked your heads in, at least he'd have put up a fight

 

David Hayes parents had dinner in my apartment in Cyprus a few years ago, they live over there. We weren't there at the time, my in-laws were using the place and told us. Wife's father rang us and said they had become friends with some professional boxers parent, had we heard of a "David Haye" before...

 

A Russian politician has proposed legalising football hooliganism and turning it into a sport.

Igor Lebedev has drawn up rules for "draka" - the Russian word for fight - which he said would involve 20 unarmed competitors on each side in an organised brawl.

Groups of Russia fans were deported from France after repeated scenes of violence at Euro 2016.

Russia will host the next World Cup in summer 2018.

Lebedev, who represents the opposition Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, is also on the board of the Russian Football Union.

He published the proposal on his party's website, stating: "Russia would be a pioneer in a new sport. Fans arrive, for example, and start picking fights. And they get the answer - challenge accepted. A meeting in a stadium at a set time.''

Following clashes between his country's fans and England supporters at Euro 2016, Lebedev said he "did not see anything terrible about fans fighting"