Khan fighting a losing battle?
Anyone who spends any amount of time on the BBC's 606 messageboards will be aware the British sports fan is an unpredictable breed. All human life is there, from the cerebral and the measured, to the slightly more unbuttoned.
And I would argue that of all the sub-breeds, there is none more enigmatic than the British boxing fan: for the most part knowledgeable and passionate, yet head-scratchingly capricious.
Take the example of Amir Khan, who challenges Ukrainian Andreas Kotelnik for his WBA light-welterweight belt in Manchester on Saturday.
Hello. I have been working for the BBC for more than a decade now and cover almost all sports. It would be good to hear from you - just don't be nasty or my mum might get upset.
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