School’s out

CHRIS EUBANK JNR is determined to snatch George Groves’ WBA super-middleweight belt at Manchester Arena tomorrow night so he can show it off at the private school that expelled him as a 15-year-old.

Brighton College, voted the UK independent school of the year as recently as 2014, educated Eubank from 1996 until 2005.

Yet despite his achievements already in a career of 27 wins from 28 bouts, the boxer is not included on the official Old Brightonians website in a list of famous former pupils. Eubank feels that might be due to the way IN HIS CORNER: Eubank received a shirt at United training on Wednesday

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he left – “an accumulation of mischief” is how he sums it up. “I didn’t do anything terrible,” he said. “Scuffles and getting kicked out of lessons for joking around.”

Now he wants to put it right by going back with two world belts around his waist, having held the IBO title since beating Renold Quinlan just under a year ago.

“I haven’t been there since I left,” he said. “I want to see if it’s the same as I remember it and I want to meet the students.

“These are the kids that are in my community and it is good for them to see there is a success story where they come from. A lot of people would never think they could be a world champ.”

While Eubank completed his GCSEs at nearby Shoreham College, academic education was always fighting a losing battle as the 16-year-old schooled himself on the street.

One particularly violent video online shows Eubank dealing with a gang member who pulled a knife on him in a carpark, and it was not long afterwards that he was sent to the United States.

“I got decent grades but I had a fire inside of me that could not find a way out,” said Eubank. “You’re a kid. You do stupid things. You get into fights and you have all this energy and channel it in the wrong way.

“That is what I want to tell children in Brighton now. The kid that was running the streets was the same kid who went to school the next morning.”

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