Irish Daily Mirror

Sergio simply a thug

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ENOUGH is enough. Dripping with insincerit­y, Sergio Ramos tweeted: “Football always teaches you things and tonight I shouldn’t have gone into the challenge like that. Milan, it was not my intention to injure you. Get well soon.”

Football might always teach you things but Ramos has long since learnt EVERY dirty trick in

AS pre-fight trash talk goes, this does not exactly cut it.

“I know class when I see it. He’s s*** hot. He’s brilliant at what he does. Show me something he can’t do.”

That is Tony Bellew on tomorrow night’s opponent Oleksandr the book and is inventing a few new ones, for good measure.

The slyest of elbows into the face of Viktoria Plzen’s Milan Havel on Wednesday was heinous even by his standards.

There was a time when his qualities as a defender and his leadership almost excused how despicable he is on a football pitch.

No longer.

Usyk. There is no doublebluf­f involved, just a frank assessment of a hugely respected adversary.

If this is a farewell pay day, he deserves it.

I know class when I see it. Good luck, Tony Bellew.

 ??  ?? those stages should not, as they have suggested, just be a considerat­ion for UEFA... it should be an obligation.
those stages should not, as they have suggested, just be a considerat­ion for UEFA... it should be an obligation.

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