"Al "The Aldgate Tiger" Phillips" was a Jews/Jewish English people/English professional featherweight/feather/lightweight/light/welterweight Boxing/boxer of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight title, European Boxing Union (EBU) List of European Boxing Union featherweight champions/featherweight title, and List of Commonwealth Boxing Council Champions#Featherweight/British Empire featherweight title, and was a challenger for the British Empire featherweight title, and BBBofC British featherweight title, against Nel Tarleton, and Ronnie Clayton (boxer)/Ronnie Clayton, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. featherweight to , i.e. welterweight. Al Phillips was ranked as the Number-3 featherweight in the world by The Ring (magazine)/The Ring magazine.

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I just told the kids about having great faith, no matter what we have. ... They did what they were supposed to do.

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Are we the No. 1 team by default because Manchester lost, or are we the No. 1 team because we really are? I think we still have something to prove.

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I think it's just neat for the kids, to finish that climb to the top. I'm really glad to be able to rest. It was our first time playing always as the favorite instead of moving up, trying to knock someone off. We really felt the pressure of teams coming after us. It was tough, to keep working hard and not get complacent.

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This is new territory for us. I always wondered what it would be like to be here and now we're here. It's all new even for me in trying to think about how to go about our season. We'll try and keep our focus and keep trying to improve. We want to be No 1 at the end of the season. It's a realistic goal in our division, in the state, in our league.

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I have to hand it to Manchester, they played a super second half. I told the kids it's not the end of the season. We have a great season to look forward to. We just need to bounce back and play our game. I'm confident we'll do well.

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It was just a matter of improvising after that.

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