Quintin Jardine's blog

I read this morning that cricket hero Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, aged 34, is applying for a professional boxing licence. He’s going to be trained by Barry McGuigan and his son, and will have a heavyweight fight in Manchester in November. His preparations will be the subject of a TV documentary. I hope Mrs Freddie is onside with this project; if she has misgivings, maybe she should check out how Mickey Rourke looks these days. He did something similar at around the same age.