This month's sports news.

January premier league fixtures

Tuesday 6th
Aston Villa v Portsmouth.
Wednesday 7th
Bolton v Man Utd, Everton v Arsenal, Man City v Charlton,
Middlesbrough v Fulham, Newcastle v Leeds, Southampton v Leicester, Tottenham v Birmingham, Wolverhampton v Blackburn, Chelsea v Liverpool.
Saturday 10th
Arsenal v Middlesbrough,
Birmingham v Southampton, Blackburn v Bolton, Charlton v Wolverhampton, Fulham v Everton, Leeds v Tottenham, Liverpool v Aston Villa, Portsmouth v Man City.
Sunday 11th
Leicester v Chelsea, Man Utd v Newcastle.
Saturday 17th
Wolverhampton v Man Utd, Bolton v Portsmouth, Everton v Charlton, Man City v Blackburn, Middlesbrough v Leicester, Southampton v Leeds,
Tottenham v Liverpool.
Sunday 18th
Aston Villa v Arsenal, Chelsea v Birmingham.
Monday 19th
Newcastle v Fulham.
Saturday 31st
Man Utd v Southampton,
Birmingham v Newcastle,
Charlton v Bolton, Fulham v Tottenham, Leeds v Middlesbrough, Leicester v Aston Villa, Liverpool v Everton, Portsmouth v Wolverhampton.

POOL NEWS HUA HIN 9-BALL LEAGUE

HUA HIN DARTS LEAGUE

TEAM P W D L PF-PA LF-LA MM SCORE TONS MP Billy's Bar 3 3 0 0 25-5 33-11 203-178 20 6
Bamboo Grove 3 3 0 0 24-6 32-18 351-174 27 6
Beer Bank Bar 3 2 0 1 21-9 33-15 114-157 27 4
Jungle Juice 3 2 0 1 16-14 24-20 206-279 10 4
Ship 3 2 0 1 14-16 23-27 0-0 15 4
Road Hole 2 1 0 1 14-6 20-11 404-297 17 2
Jailhouse 3 1 0 2 11-19 21-25 108-192 14 2
Club 99 2 1 0 1 9-11 13-16 225-308 11 2
Lips 1 0 0 1 2-8 4-10 0-0 0 0
Grand Sport 2 0 0 2 6-14 11-21 0-0 6 0
Broken Arrows 3 0 0 3 8-22 16-31 203-380 9 0
Sawan 2 0 0 2 0-20 2-26 24-83 3 0

HUA HIN 9-BALL POOL LEAGUE
FINAL STANDINGS
TEAM G W D L PF PA RF RA MP
WILLO'S 18 14 2 2 140-76 227-174 30
BAMBOO GROVE 18 9 2 7 112-104 204-189 20
LONDON LOUNGE 18 9 2 7 103-113 201-202 20
ROAD HOLE 18 8 3 7 120-96 211-179 19
U-TURN 18 8 3 7 107-109 206-206 19
BILLY'S BAR 18 6 6 6 106-110 194-208 18
RAINBOW 18 6 5 7 108-108 198-204 17
JUNGLE JUICE 18 6 3 9 102-114 199-192 14
MONDO 18 5 1 12 94-122 189-213 11
BEACHCOMBER 18 5 1 12 92-124 176-224 11

Individuals top 16 tournament
Winner: Sombat (Jungle Juice)
Runner-up: Jim (Billy's Bar)

History of Muay Thai Pt.III - Hua Hin Heroes

As promised in the issue before, this month' article will be dedicated entirely to the Hua Hin Thai boxing scene.
Coincidentally, the first Muay Thai Champion of Thailand was born in Hua Hin, he trained in Hua Hin and lived here until he moved to Pattaya one year before his death 16 years ago. His name is Porn Ging Ped and his statue stands on the site currently being developed next to the Red Cross Centre to honour him for his effort and courage.
Still today, there is a local boxingcamp in town which produces high talented boxers who all fight in Bangkok's major stadiums, Lumpinee and Rachademnern.
At 'Sitchaupo", two of these talents are the famous twin-brothers Pet-eg and Pet-tho, born in Nakhon sri Thammarat in 1981 but moved to Hua Hin in 1986 after their parents' divorce. These guys are really something special. Not only because they look so handsome, having fought both more than 400 fights(!!), but also because they are intelligent, funny, and very shy. Pet-tho once filled in a flyer to participate in the movie 'Beautiful Boxer', he was invited for a screen test but was too shy to do it.
Anyway, since I train with them and got to know them really well, I must say I seldom met 2 youngsters so eager and so multi-talented. Eager, because once I phoned Pet-tho and asked him what he was doing on that beautiful afternoon. "Reading a book", he answered. ,,About what?" I asked him again, ''About World Civilization" he answered. And multi-talented because while Pet-tho is learning as much as his profession allows him to, his brother is busy excelling in 3 different sports. Apart from winning a Lumpinee belt, he won the Prachuap Khiri Khan-Provence Marathon last year, and last summer he was member of a soccer team, together with his brother, and won the district finals. On the other hand, Hua Hin offers 4 weekly matches for less experienced fighters. Tuesdays and Fridays at Mr. Chop Rawee's Thai Boxing Garden on Poonsuk Road, opposite the Temple. Thursdays and Sundays at the Grand Sports on Petchkasem Road, next to Sao Paulo Hospital. Assisted by Ajarn Singh, a local Muay Thai master, Jorne and Lisa Rissanen from Finland succeeded to put Grand Sports on the local Thai boxing map. Not only real fights can be seen here, sometimes they offer a very funny show-fight similar to American Wrestling, or two teenagers fighting each other blindfolded! Check out the posters for both TBG's and Grand Sports programmes, matches start at 9 p.m. and if interested in learning Muay Thai, send an E-mail to Fightclub27@hotmail.com.

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