It is now approximately 2 years plus since I spent many hours, many late night hours at that,weeks and months,working on a site for the Maesgeirchen Boxing Club. I had got much of the details of that club, how it was brought into being by founder members and trainers Jim Stenson and Brian Williams. How it had, without any help from outside influences or organisations managed to produce 7 champions from their little garage on the Estate. At this moment in time I have now lost all the information I had after someone who thought they knew what they were saying demanded I take the site down. I knew I was in the right and had spent months writing to individual boxers both in the UK and the States asking for permission to use their photo's. The one's who replied were very kind and oblidged. However, I was treated so badly that I took the site down. But that is now all water under the bridge, the lads of the Club neither Brian or Jim can be held responsible for the actions of someone else. So I mention here while I have a chance that MaesG does have it's own Boxing club.

I am amazed that even though in the last year we have had many groups and organisations come up onto the Estate, and while many good things have been done. Nothing has been done to give the Boxing Club a building they can use themselves, somewhere they don't have to keep up their kit etc or the ring, and somwhere that does not lay down the rules of how and when they can access or use the place. I know one thing, if my son ( if I had one ) had joined this boxing club, had shown enthusiasm to get off the streets, and into a sport I would now have been sitting on doorsteps and Council building steps until someone heard me, I would have been shouting loud enough that the Welsh Assembly could not fail to hear me.After all, isn't this what Mr Blair wants? If you are in some sort of influential position and reading this, and if you have reason to be ashamed of the conditions these Coaches and lads work in then please do something about it. When I had my last site up for them I had boxing people from the USA interested in their plight. Now have you seen the Boxing Club Caernarfon has got and I would be interested to know how many Champions they have produced. It is state of the art. Come on somebody somewhere, pull your finger out if it's your job to help then help these lads. Think of the dedication, time, hours, years, that has gone into keeping them interested and out of trouble by Jim Stenson and Brian Williams.