My earliest memory of time spent bonding with my father was at the Bolton Football Club on the island of Mauritius; tuned to the wireless, mesmerised by the first in a trilogy of epic encounters between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.

I favoured Smokin Joe based solely on the instinct to judge my champions by their opponents.

Many an analogy has been written to humanise the Sweet Science. I subscribe to the notion that 'for all of its lies, boxing is about the truth.'

The truth, as I understand it, is an ethereal realisation that most of us are either running from or searching for – throughout our journey.

And so I welcome you to the first edition of It’s All About Me, magazine.

My aim is to produce stories that will entertain, educate and perhaps even inspire within my readers a greater level of awareness.

Some articles will feature the famous; most will not. Some articles will feature those who command respect in the environs of politics, entertainment and sport; most will not. The majority however will simply document the lives of ordinary men and women articulating their dreams, challenged by their fears, giving us an insight into triumph borne of nothing more than the courage to persevere.

I look forward to sharing their stories, and listening to your comments.

To my advertisers: Thank you! Nothing worthwhile has ever been achieved without vision. And with vision comes invariable risk.

Herve