#14 Anthony Farnell

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Manchester trainer Anthony Farnell admits his enforced retirement from the sport due to irregularities in a brain scan meant he spiralled into an abyss. He skidded into a 10-month alcohol-fuelled depression that nearly cost him his wife and his family. Along with other rising Manchester prospects Ricky Hatton and Michael Gomez, Farnell was part of a lively domestic scene at light-middleweight and went on to coach the likes of Anthony Crolla, Tony Bellew and Frankie Gavin.

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0:30.0	I never used to drink that much for 10 months after that I drank between 10 and 12 pints and night plus spirits on some of that. It's a very, very, very, very, very long sport and there's only a few that can get something out of the boxing and it's very hard. Like I say it's long, especially you lose a fight and
0:57.6	you'll start seeing real friends and stuff like that.
1:02.3	If people spied me, they tell you like, I box a lot of people that are top top fighters,
1:08.8	dropped them a lot because it was nice and smooth but I could never be like that in a fight.
1:15.0	I was always like tight and just wanted that fight and I couldn't relax.
1:21.0	Sometimes you think to yourself the wonder, going on with your nose broke and yazzy.
1:29.6	That was happening when I was 16, you know, in 15, 15, 17 all the time, but all the strong survived all that has people
1:38.8	say so and I survived. I'm going to. Hello and
1:55.0	welcome to Boxing Life stories.
1:57.0	My guest this week was a Manchester Hero at the turn of the century
2:00.0	and a Sky Sports staple who has gone on to become a full-time trainer.
2:04.1	Anthony Farnell, however, admits that everything started going wrong for him in retirement,
2:08.4	but since giving up alcohol and focusing on his life after boxing, he's living well.
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