"When he is on the pitch, what is going on around him doesn't bother him.
From the million-pound apartments of Deansgate to the red-brick terraces of Moston, so many tens of thousands of people here didn't bother to vote at the last election that Lucy Powell, the incumbent Labour MP, was elected in a 2012 byelection with just 12% support in the lowest parliamentary poll turn out since 1945.
He insists he will not engage in any in-your-face evangelising, disturbing those who go to the pub for a quiet pint on a Monday: "I'm not looking to bother anybody.
She added: "Unfortunately I rang the non-emergency number and I'm now thinking why did I bother to do that, because I feel like I got non-action.
She didn't even bother to change out of her wet clothes seeing that half an hour later, another group of boys stopped by and poured another two buckets of water over her head.
As part of the endorsement, which came at the end of his summary of a month of political interviews, Brand also addressed his previous comments during an interview with Jeremy Paxman on the BBC's Newsnight that people should not bother voting, saying he had learned since then.
"The great investigative journalists who wrote the book didn't bother to take the four minutes to check the Asic website," Brown said.
One Tour contender is in a spot of bother - Tejay van Garderen, BMC's promising American rider, damaged his bike in that previous skirmish, and is currently trying to catch up with the main group on a spare set of wheels.
What was once the industrial heart of Uruguay is now a quiet riverside backwater where nothing much happens - the shops don't bother to open until midday and not at all if it's raining.
Not only did Tyson not bother to watch Douglas in action, but he barely trained for the fight, bar a few sparring sessions with Greg Page.
