Reflecting on the riots, coach Shahid Shad says: “Do I agree with the boats coming over?<\/p>\n
“Well it’s an issue but it’s nothing to the point of where we should be slinging each other down and burning hotels because in a nutshell you’ve made your area bad, you’ve made your council spend money that they shouldn’t be spending to repair a building.”<\/p>\n
Kaya Odemis, 14, trains at the gym four times a week after school.<\/p>\n
He says: “Look at all the flags in the gym.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got people from Congo, from Yemen, Somalia, England, Kurdistan, Kashmir, Scotland and Turkey, which is where I’m from.<\/p>\n
“We’re all under the same banner aren’t we?<\/p>\n
“I know loads of guys who were pretty wild at school but this place changes them, it’s an escape.<\/p>\n
“It’s the discipline of boxing they respect.”<\/p>\n
On the riots, he says: “I understood why they were angry but what I think I didn’t understand is like the way they dealt with it.<\/p>\n
“For those in the hotel, I feel bad for them to be fair. I felt bad for what they had to go through. I hope they’re safe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the riots, coach Shahid Shad says: “Do I agree with the boats coming over? “Well it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-353099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}