Bantamweight Fight Fest

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Bantamweight Fight Fest

Postby The Huntsman » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:59 am

Time was when a brawl in a pub would be resolved after the verbals and the finger-wagging by an exchange of brutality with fisticuffs. Nowadays brawls start with the blade, the bottle or the Glasgow Kiss. Thus in life, so in politics as we witnessed last night Peter Mandelson eschew any opening preliminary skirmish and jab a broken bottle into Sarkozy's face: "I am being undermined."

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