Reply With QuoteFor cricket if it was best of all time then Don Bradman tops the best batsman and Shane Warne as a bowler. I could never have 2 convicts in my 5 though.
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For cricket if it was best of all time then Don Bradman tops the best batsman and Shane Warne as a bowler. I could never have 2 convicts in my 5 though.
Ali.
C B Fry
Daley Thompson
Martina Navratilova
Tiger Woods
It's an impossible question really. I tried to be as dispassionate as possible rather than just go for favourites - I'd only call one of them a favourite of mine and there's one there I don't like much at all.
Muhammed Ali by a country mile. Boxing and his Vietnam stance.
George Best, despite the flaws.
Ian Woosnam, 5' 4", world number one for ages.
Sebastian Coe, despite being a Tory, when he accelerated off the final bend...
Jesse Owens, take that Adolf.
Willie Boland
Kelly Sotherton
ali was a great man , up there with the bestOriginally Posted by elytillidie
Bob as I said earlier, it should be your personal favourites, not the best in any given sport. Even if they were second raters or perennial runners-up it doesn't matter. As long as you had an affinity with them is all that counts.
That is quite amusing Sludge because when I gave an honourable mention to Seb Coe in my original post, I thought I know somebody who's going to kick my a**e for naming a Tory. Never in a million years did I think he would pop up in your list lol
Ali
Jesse Owens
CB Fry
Messi
Hughie Ferguson
Fictional... William Wilson by a mile
Bugger I forgot Roy of the Rovers
My bad, Coe appeared on Elytillidie's list not Sludge's. Thought that would never happen !
I guess a lot of this depends on your age. Muhammed Ali and Pele will be on most older people's lists, but younger folks will choose Messi or Tyson, perhaps. Ali has to be the greatest boxer. Footballer? Well, take your choice from a long list. Gareth Edwards is considered by many (older) people to be the greatest ever rugby player, but young people will close Lomu, or someone similar. It's all subjective. But Chris Pike has got to be in there somewhere.
Nothing without Blackie Gray and Arnold Tabbs pulling the strings behind him!
Where's Limp Along Leslie ????
If we're talking fictional, what about Alf Tupper who won fifty gold medals on a diet of fish and chips? Robert Redford was pretty good in The Natural as well.
George Best
Pele
Les Kellert
Nathan Blake
Ali
Geoff Boycott on the bench.
Ronnie
Diego
Tyson
Bolt
Lomu
Kim Jong-un x5
Hasn't he gone round St Andrew's in 58, run 100m in 8.9secs, got an 8-darter for 501, won the British F1 driving backwards and was the only boxer to beat Calzaghe?
What sticks out like a sore thumb is the scarcity of women on the list. Possibly because to men they don't achieve hero status in a way that Ali, Bolt, Owens etc have. Certainly we admire the achievements of people like Navratilova, Jess Ennis, Serena Williams etc but not enough for us to include them on our all-time favourites list it seems.
William Wilson starred in about five different eras, when I was religiously following his exploits in the 60s he was about 120 years old then. Tupper got to meetings on his motorbike and sidebath after a day’s welding, Wilson ran a couple of hundred miles to get to a venue without eating, the man was and still is a marvel, Alf is no doubt long retired.
Linda Lovelace deserves a mention although she blew many an opportunity.
Botham was a fantastic cricketer , one of the greatest players of all time up there with sobers , Kapil dev , Hadlee , via Richards etc
But since he's retired he's become a right old little englander , very right wing
Horrible
Coe was world class
always went down too easily
ana Ivanovic
Is that ex-Tory MP, Baron, Lord ,KBE, Life Peer Sebastian Newbold Coe?
Didnt think he was your type?
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