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CORK CITY NEED MORE FIREPOWER TO SHOOT DOWN DUNDALK
NOT everything in sport is defined by silverware.

And that thought will have to sustain Cork City fans in the off season. City fans

Matt Le Tissier spent a career at Southampton where the big prizes were always out of reach but you could argue he was still the most electrifying English player of his generation. The Waterford hurling team of the mid noughties was in the shadow of Cork and Kilkenny in terms of All-Irelands but their swaggering style means they’ll be fondly remembered forever. Their off-the-cuff approach cost them Liam McCarthy but won them a chunk of admirers.

Now of course the flipside is that coming up short can define a team. Mayo are forever trying to defy a history of underachievement. In American Football the Buffalo Bills lost four SuperBowls in a row. Their former kicker Scott Norwood has never lived down missing a winning effort in the first of those.

What category do Cork City come under? A team for whom winning shouldn’t define them? Or a group who will be weighed down by their inability to seal the deal?

They’re certainly not winners in raw terms.

City have failed to beat their arch rivals Dundalk in the seven meetings across the past two seasons, during which Stephen Kenny’s side collected back-to-back league titles, a league cup, the Leinster Cup, and last weekend’s FAI Cup.

Dundalk have amassed that haul with aplomb. Richie Towell and Daryl Horgan, the scorer and architect of the cup winner, have been particularly mesmeric and effective.

However, given the shambolic state of affairs before fan-group FORAS rescued City from oblivion when they were demoted to the First Division, or even their middling couple of seasons upon their return to the top flight, they’ve done extremely well since John Caulfield was appointed.

And you certainly couldn’t say City are chokers because they’ve lost to a Dundalk unit that are shaping up to be one of the best League of Ireland teams in the modern era. Like any championship-winning side Dundalk have dug out their share of gritty 1-0 victories and snatched last-gasp goals, but they’ve also delivered some devastating displays with an expansive approach.

They lost last season’s top-scorer Patrick Hoban to a move to England, but his 20 league goals were replaced by Towell catching fire and hitting 25, up from 11 in 2014. The former Celtic trainee, who also played for Hibs, has proved quite the nemesis for City, the sort you love to hate, with his cocky demeanour and extravagant goal celebrations.

And that’s one of the major complaints a portion of the City supporters have had this season. Not that they keep losing to Dundalk thanks to Towell’s goals, but that they haven’t hit the champions’ levels of class.

The stats will show City scored 21 goals less than Dundalk in the league in 2015 league, and 22 goals less than them the year before. Both teams have been lean and mean in defence: Dundalk conceded 24 league goals in ’14, 23 this time out, and for City is was 25 goals left in both seasons.

Whatever way you dress it up, City haven’t scored enough or been attack-minded enough to get the better of Dundalk. You certainly wouldn’t confuse them with Waterford hurlers under Justin McCarthy that’s for sure.

Granted they only needed a draw up in Oriel Park last year to deny the home side glory, but that was as much down to Dundalk staggering with the finishing line in sight, than anything else. Caulfield has managed to turn a middle of the road team into a well-drilled, committed, and motivated one, who leave everything on the field.

You couldn’t say they didn’t give it their all up in the Aviva last weekend, but whether it was their 4-5-1 approach and maybe just the lack of cutting edge in the squad they didn’t create a whole pile. Darren Dennehy had a late effort off the crossbar but that was it really.

It didn’t help that the lively Stuart Beattie, who has been an impressive signing, was cup-tied, or that young gun Danny Morrissey has been plagued with injuries. Yet Karl Sheppard, Billy Dennehy and Mark O’Sullivan never really looked like scoring in the cup final.Dennehy

Firepower is clearly a problem – though again that could be down to the counter-attacking tactics or just the players at Caulfield’s disposal. In 2014 O’Sullivan hit 11 league goals and Dennehy 13 (though five were penalties), while in this year’s league Sheppard shone with 13 goals, despite playing out wide, and O’Sullivan made the official Team of the Year.

The former Avondale striker has been outstanding as a target-man but he often appears isolated. The 4-4-2 formation is no longer trendy, but unless City can sign a Towell-esque attacking midfielder, they’ll need a partner for O’Sullivan in 2016 – or another winger if Sheppard is deployed inside. That is of course if 32-year-old O’Sullivan agrees terms with the club, as the fan favourite is out of contract.

City have been already been linked to St Pat’s tasty midfielder James Chambers and Liam Miller hasn’t provided as much creativity as expected since his recruitment after a spell in Australia.

You can be certain Caulfield is well aware of exactly where he needs to improve his panel. Analyst Lisa Fallon, who also works with Northern Ireland, will play a key part in that regard.

As a club City are the best in the league. Their attendances are the envy of all the rest, and when Turner’s Cross is rocking it can’t be matched. The question is can the team become as formidable?

www.lover-fashion.com Now a Bruno joins the ranks of sons hoping to punch above their famous fathers' weight, writes Steve Bunce

Now a Bruno joins the ranks of sons hoping to punch above their famous fathers' weight, writes Steve Bunce
Frank Bruno's son, Franklin, made his debut last Friday
East Ham Working Men’s Social Club is the type of venue where Frank Bruno took his first, hefty baby steps in the boxing business nearly 40 years ago. It

all ended a long way from the subsidised pints one bad night in Las Vegas.

Bruno fought illegally for a time when he was 16 and had to make out he was a year older, a senior in amateur boxing terms. The subterfuge was needed so that

he could get fights against men in now vanished pits like the Cat’s Whiskers in Streatham, the Hatcham Liberal Club in Peckham and Penge Town Hall. He was

simply too powerful and nobody would match him against another 16-year-old; once he fought a bus driver from Catford at a show run by Frank Maloney near the

Elephant and Castle. I was there, it’s not a fantasy.

Last Friday, Bruno was back ringside, watching his son, Franklin, make his debut for Brentwood Youth at the East Ham venue in a fight that lasted just 37

seconds. The son of Frank is 20, a bit smaller than his father was at this age, but as raw and powerful.

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Franklin Bruno in the ring for his winning debut at East Ham Social Club last Friday
Franklin Bruno is the just the latest son of a former world champion to turn to boxing in what is a steady line of second generation battlers. Ricky Hatton’

s son, Campbell, had a couple of amateur bouts; one of Joe Calzaghe’s sons is boxing; Nigel Benn’s son is training in Manchester with Hatton; and then

there is the Chris Eubank father-and-son show.

When Eubank Jr decided to box, his dad tried to stop him. “I told him no, it’s that simple,” said Eubank Sr, who now wishes to be known as English. (The

name change, by the way, is in honour of his father, who celebrated all things English, and also to limit confusion with his son). The pair work together and

English is a constant presence and occasional second in the ring, where he has had to modify his clothing to satisfy the boxing board’s dress code.

Conor Benn has fought 22 times as an amateur in Australia, where his dad is a preacher, and he is now based in Manchester, set on entering the domestic

amateur championships in January and then turning professional later in 2016. “It’s what I wanted to do and Dad has been there supporting me,” said Conor.

“It’s what he wants to do,” said Nigel. “He has the talent, the attitude and Ricky is the right man. It’s his dream, not mine, and that’s why he is not

training with me.”

The famous sons of rich and famous boxing fathers fight under a hefty burden of expectation and, with the exception of Eubank, do so with a degree of welcome

anonymity. Even Eubank went under most radars when he fought, alongside his brother Sebastian, as an amateur on a circuit so low key and alien that  first-

time visitors are not sure if what they are watching is actually legal and connected to what they have seen on television. It is, at times, like a sport lost

in a distant epoch.

Steve Collins Jr can remember watching his father fight, sitting or hiding behind the sofa as a boy of six or seven and looking on as Collins beat Eubank

twice and Benn twice. Every single round was savage, a horror show for a boy that young. He started to fight after playing rugby and did so only to stay fit,

hitting bags at his uncle’s gym in Dublin; he soon went straight to the professional ranks in 2013 and is unbeaten in five.

“The name means that some people want you to fail and some want you to win,” said Collins Jr. “It’s a lot of pressure – he was the best in the world and

I’m new at the sport. It can be hard and, let’s face it, everybody wants to beat up Steve Collins’ son.”

Curtis Gargano also had a famous fighting dad, a man who fought dozens of champions and leading contenders – sometimes even with a week’s notice.
sexy clubwear Des Gargano is a legendary figure in the boxing world: a smoker, a joker and loser of 87 of his 122 fights. Curtis followed his dad into the boxing business

and, just like his father, his record is deceptive: he is without a win in nine fights.

“I went to loads of his fights, more or less lived in the gym with him,” said Curtis. “The night before he boxed Naz [Naseem Hamed], he went for an

eight-mile run, worked all day on a building site and still went four rounds – everybody else was getting done in two.” Hamed had a soft spot for Gargano.

“I remember him having broken ribs and having to fight most weeks even with the injuries. He could never afford to get stopped – that meant a long break

and no money.”

That is a real fighting father. Franklin Bruno, meanwhile, will be in action again at the end of the month on another invisible, amateur boxing show,

somewhere in Essex.

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It is time for “a different kind of nude,” according to Ade Hassan, founder of online lingerie and hosiery label Nubian Skin. Hassan aims to redefine the industry's definition of nude by offering lingerie in skin-tones suitable for women with darker complexions and filling what she see's as a big gap in the intimates market.

“My nude isn’t the nude I see in shops. Despite the reality that women of colour have the same needs as all women when it comes to lingerie and hosiery, the industry simply doesn’t cater to us. So, I thought, it’s time to rethink the definition of nude,” said Hassan, explaining where she found the inspiration for her lingerie label.
Nubian Skin: Redefining 'nude' lingerie"I wanted women of color to feel included"

The former economics graduate turned designer was frustrated by the lack of nude, or flesh tone options available to her and decided it was time to cater to the needs of women of all color. “If a woman works in a professional atmosphere and she wants to be taken seriously, she cannot wear a sheer blouse with a coloured bra or a white dress with yellow shoes and black tights because then she just looks like a bumblebee. I wanted women of color to feel included and to be able to shop their own shade of nude.”
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Although other lingerie labels have tried to include darker shades in their nude range, such as Marks & Spencer with its Nearly Naked line, the color options have been limited to one or two deeper tones and restrictive in their sizing options as well. “I think that there a lot of brands out there making incredible items of lingerie, that is just a fact. But with regards to their nude offering I think that it is just something many designers, or perhaps decision makers at the brand, have chosen not to look at,” noted Hassan. “Or maybe they have and its just not something that has really taken off. I can't really say why they do what they do, but it's a gap in the market which we can address.”

Hassan felt that she was the right woman to address that gap in the market. “Launching my own lingerie line was not a very natural jump for me to make,” explained Hassan, who previously studied finance and development and worked as a strategy consultant and analyst, “but I have always been very interested in fashion.” To ensure she was successful with the development of her first collection and to understand the design behind the lingerie, Hassan took time off work to study fashion design in Paris before going back to London to launch Nubian Skin.

Once back in the UK, Hassan began researching which true-to skin tones would be best for the label. The lightest shade available from Nubian Skin is called 'cafe au lait' and is said to be suitable for women with a lighter skin tone, or with a mix of ethnical backgrounds. Then there is 'caramel,' a rich golden-brown tone, followed by 'cinnamon,' a medium dark color. Finally there is the darkest shade, Berry, “a really lovely deep, rich cocoa color.” In order to help her customers find a suitable match, Hassan has been uploading images to the label's Instagram account prior to the store' s launch.
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“We have had a lot of comments from users saying 'oh that's me, that's my skin tone' which is amazing, but we also have been using foundation colors to match the tones and act as guidelines to help customers find their match.” Once customers have found their match they can pre-order a bra, pants and tights all for under 100 pounds, as Hassan aims to have her label accessible to all women. For example, essential T-shirt bras retail for 29 pounds, thongs for 10 pounds and classic lace push-up bras for 39 pounds.

Although Hassan does have a good selection of nude-tones, some customers have been expressing their concerns regarding the sizing options available. Nubian Skin currently offer bras in sizes 30B to 36DD/E, which leaves out a number of women. “The decision to use the normal sizing range for the first collection was one we thought about a lot, since a lot of women of color are very well endowed,” explained Hassan. “But when you first start up a business you have to be incredibly practical about things, otherwise you will lose money before you actually start. So we thought we would be very conservative and see if there was demand and then go from there. But we have listened to the initial feedback we have received and it has always been our plan, if things went well, to expand our sizing offer.”

Expanding from the online realm into the world of bricks-and-mortar is another future plan for Nubian Skin, if everything goes according to plan. “If we were to partner with any department stores it would be amazing to be stocked in Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Debenhams, Selfridges or John Lewis in the UK. And in the US, department stores like Macy's, Nordstorm and Bloomingdales, that would be fantastic.” However, Hassan decided to launch Nubian Skin online because “as a start-up one of the easiest things to do is to start online," and ship internationally.
"There is a demand for nude lingerie and hosiery"

“But also given the fact that the mainstream has ignored the need for nude lingerie for women of color for so long, walking into a department store and asking them if they can stock us – well first of all you are not likely to get very much attention, second of all, when you do that you are almost putting all your power in their hands, which puts you on the back foot,” added Hassan. “And I knew there were a lot of women like me, who have darker skin tones, who have this problem and there is a demand for nude lingerie and hosiery. So I thought if we launched online and they could see what a huge following there is behind this, they will think twice and may pay attention to us.”

Since launching Nubian Skin's social media channels, as well as blog site, the label has gained a huge online following. “The number of people who have shown interest in Nubian Skin has been absolutely phenomenal, having a whole community of people behind an idea is amazing. The mainstream media have also been supportive and helped spread the word which is just amazing, I never expected this level of support.”

Nubianskin.com is currently open for pre-orders and will officially launch its e-commerce on October 1, 2014.



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