BlueMeanie
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The morons are all over the comments already .
SCOTS boxing legend Billy Nelson has praised Rangers ace Jon Flanagan and even offered to train all of his team-mates too.
The Gers defender trained with renowned boxing coach Nelson this morning as he stepped up extra fitness work to get back into the first team.
Opportunities in Steven Gerrard's side have been few and far between for the 26-year-old as he battles back from injury.
He recently featured in the Rangers Colts side who beat Wrexham 2-0 in the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer Cup last week.But Nelson, was full of kind words for the Scouser, and admits he would love to help out Gerrard's men gain an extra edge in the title race over Celtic.Speaking to SunSport, he said: "It was his first day, so we did an hour session but he's intending on coming to the gym on a regular basis every week.
"Undoubtedly it will help with his upper-body strength and it can benefit other sportsmen too.
"Boxing training is the hardest you can do. He will use muscle groups that he won't in football.
"He's a confident athlete. I think he's done a bit of boxing before when he was a kid in Liverpool so he's got the basics there.
"We did around six rounds on the pads, some circuit training and skipping - his fitness levels are very high obviously.
"A very nice guy. I met him through a mutual friend and I think we're going to try and get some other Rangers players involved in it.
"I was asked about five or six years ago when I trained Ricky Burns if I would be available to train Rangers players on a weekly basis.
"Nothing ever really materialised from it but I'd be delighted to help them."
Billy has trained some of the country's top boxers over the years at the Engage Boxing Gym in Greengairs, near Cumbernauld.
The aforementioned Ricky Burns, as well as Willie Limon, Paul Appleby and David Brophy.
And the busy coach went into more specific detail about where players like Flanagan can improve from the extra training.
He added: "Jon punches more than adequately but as I say, I think that's because of the stuff he did when he was kid.
"More importantly for me, he's a nice guy and he's willing to learn about a new sport.
"I remember we took a Scottish boxing football team to play in England for a charity game.
"Ricky Hatton was playing and so was Ricky Burns, the Scottish team won that year!
"My friend was the centre-half that day, and Paul Smith, who was Super middleweight champion of Britain at the time, played for their team.
"My mate went up for a header against him and he said 'Billy it was like hitting a bit of Iron'."
"So if these football players can get the same effect by doing a bit of extra training then it can only be beneficial to them.
"Fair play to him doing additional training - if there were more players like him they'd probably be more successful."
SCOTS boxing legend Billy Nelson has praised Rangers ace Jon Flanagan and even offered to train all of his team-mates too.
The Gers defender trained with renowned boxing coach Nelson this morning as he stepped up extra fitness work to get back into the first team.
Opportunities in Steven Gerrard's side have been few and far between for the 26-year-old as he battles back from injury.
He recently featured in the Rangers Colts side who beat Wrexham 2-0 in the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer Cup last week.But Nelson, was full of kind words for the Scouser, and admits he would love to help out Gerrard's men gain an extra edge in the title race over Celtic.Speaking to SunSport, he said: "It was his first day, so we did an hour session but he's intending on coming to the gym on a regular basis every week.
"Undoubtedly it will help with his upper-body strength and it can benefit other sportsmen too.
"Boxing training is the hardest you can do. He will use muscle groups that he won't in football.
"He's a confident athlete. I think he's done a bit of boxing before when he was a kid in Liverpool so he's got the basics there.
"We did around six rounds on the pads, some circuit training and skipping - his fitness levels are very high obviously.
"A very nice guy. I met him through a mutual friend and I think we're going to try and get some other Rangers players involved in it.
"I was asked about five or six years ago when I trained Ricky Burns if I would be available to train Rangers players on a weekly basis.
"Nothing ever really materialised from it but I'd be delighted to help them."
Billy has trained some of the country's top boxers over the years at the Engage Boxing Gym in Greengairs, near Cumbernauld.
The aforementioned Ricky Burns, as well as Willie Limon, Paul Appleby and David Brophy.
And the busy coach went into more specific detail about where players like Flanagan can improve from the extra training.
He added: "Jon punches more than adequately but as I say, I think that's because of the stuff he did when he was kid.
"More importantly for me, he's a nice guy and he's willing to learn about a new sport.
"I remember we took a Scottish boxing football team to play in England for a charity game.
"Ricky Hatton was playing and so was Ricky Burns, the Scottish team won that year!
"My friend was the centre-half that day, and Paul Smith, who was Super middleweight champion of Britain at the time, played for their team.
"My mate went up for a header against him and he said 'Billy it was like hitting a bit of Iron'."
"So if these football players can get the same effect by doing a bit of extra training then it can only be beneficial to them.
"Fair play to him doing additional training - if there were more players like him they'd probably be more successful."
