Your Top 5 Sporting Heroes?

[HonaloochieB]

Mohammed Ali

George Best

Alex Higgins

Michael Palaeologus

Ted Max

I like to think of my list as 60% sporting legends and 40% good sports.

I don't know, call me old-fashioned. It's just the way I am.

[Sandperson]

Eric Cantona

Lance Armstrong

Chris Hoy

Paula Radcliffe

Michael SChumacher

[Narnia]

George Best..........simply the best

Barry John......a Welsh Wizard

Mike Gibson........likewise, but Irish

John McEnroe........made tennis fun to watch

the Creator.....if there is one............for placing us on a beautiful planet and still allow us to enjoy other people earning much more money than we do for kicking, catching and hitting balls of various shapes and not think twice about it!

[Sharon_H]

Not really being into sport that much other than foorball. My team being Liverpool all my choices are Liverpool related, sorry. In no particular order.

Bill Shankley - I had the pleasure to meet the great man when I was a youngster.

Craig Johnston - Who, I hear you ask, the man who walked away from football to go back to Australia to look after his very ill sister. Loved him!

Jamie Carragher - Grit and determination, not the greatest footballer, and he knows it.

Bob Paisley - A very humble man. He conquered Rome twice, the first time was in a tank. 3 European Cups, what a guy!

Ian Rush/King Kenny - Tough one.

[Annasfield]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Damon Hill

> Kenny Dalglish

> Robbie Fowler

> Martin Johnson

> Steven Gerrard

Would like to add that my top 5 are those who I remember.

[telegramsam]

Bobby Moore

Kevin Keegan (when he was in Superstars)

Richie McCaw

Henry Cooper

The Ever-Swindell twins (Rowing)..two for the price of one I guess!

[Mick Mac]

Declan Wrote:

> the Creator.....if there is one............for

> placing us on a beautiful planet and still allow

> us to enjoy other people earning much more money

> than we do for kicking, catching and hitting balls

> of various shapes and not think twice about it!

Declan - What a great line.

I think you summed up sport - if there is a ball involved its enjoyable to watch - Ball sports are king.

[Mick Mac]

> Annasfield Wrote:

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> > Damon Hill

> > Kenny Dalglish

> > Robbie Fowler

> > Martin Johnson

> > Steven Gerrard

>

>

> Would like to add that my top 5 are those who I

> remember.

Annasfield - a distinct Liverpool feel to you top 5. If you remembered Kenny Dalglish (who's best years were ate celtic park?) surely you remember the person he was signed to replace: King Kevin Keegan, twice european player of the year, surely better than dalglish?

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Bill Shankley

Brian Clough

Henry Cooper

Garfield Sobers

Ian Botham

[Annasfield]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> > Annasfield Wrote:

> >

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> > -----

> > > Damon Hill

> > > Kenny Dalglish

> > > Robbie Fowler

> > > Martin Johnson

> > > Steven Gerrard

> >

> >

> > Would like to add that my top 5 are those who I

> > remember.

>

>

> Annasfield - a distinct Liverpool feel to you top

> 5. If you remembered Kenny Dalglish (who's best

> years were ate celtic park?) surely you remember

> the person he was signed to replace: King Kevin

> Keegan, twice european player of the year, surely

> better than dalglish?

Apart from the fact that I'm an 80's child, King Kenny did far more for Liverpool than Keegan. Still does a lot for the city and club these days.

[Sharon_H]

Have to agree with Anna, Keegan was great, but King Kenny just had something else about him.

[Mick Mac]

kenny's a good guy, but he wasn't a virgin when he came to liverpool, he had been somewhere bigger and better...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4K9schV5wug

[Annasfield]

Yeah and Fowler and Carragher were Evertonians, but we've forgiven them that. ;-)

Kenny is a seen as a God at Anfield, doesn't matter where else he was great first. :)

[Jimbob]

Sharon_H Wrote:

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> Not really being into sport that much other than

> foorball. My team being Liverpool all my choices

> are Liverpool related, sorry. In no particular

> order.

>

> Bill Shankley - I had the pleasure to meet the

> great man when I was a youngster.

> Craig Johnston - Who, I hear you ask, the man who

> walked away from football to go back to Australia

> to look after his very ill sister. Loved him!

> Jamie Carragher - Grit and determination, not the

> greatest footballer, and he knows it.

> Bob Paisley - A very humble man. He conquered

> Rome twice, the first time was in a tank. 3

> European Cups, what a guy!

> Ian Rush/King Kenny - Tough one.

not only that he looked after his sister in between designing football boots.

[citizenED]

1. Cadbury Dairy Milk

2. Twirl

3. Fudge

4. Crunchie

5. Bournville

.........oh, sporting heroes.

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

Andy Ripley

Alan Knott

Sonia Lannaman

Daley Thompson

Wayne Shelford

[jaybee82]

Richard Rufus

James Hunt

Chris Powell

Riccardo Patrese

Carl Fogarty

[matthew123]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Yeah and Fowler and Carragher were Evertonians,

> but we've forgiven them that. ;-)

>

> Kenny is a seen as a God at Anfield, doesn't

> matter where else he was great first. :)

Kenny did his apprenticeship north of the border - after Shankly sent him back north after an Anfield trial in the sixties... but cometh the hour cometh the man, the Prince of Scotland took his new throne as King of the Kop ;-)

[Mick Mac]

Ha - yes matthew123 this is true - but when 15 year old Dalglish tried out for Liverpool he was not good enough - as Bill Shankly recognised - but he was not "farmed out" as you say, as this suggests Liverpool had some hold over the youngster - this was not the case - they rejected him.

Jock Stein took the player on - but he was initially not good enough for celtic either (obvious, being a better team than Liverpool then):

"It took Dalglish three years to establish himself in the first team. At that time Celtic were not only top dogs in Glasgow, thay were top dogs in Europe, having become the first British team to win the European Cup, beating the mighty Inter Milan"

Jock Stein made him the player he was to become - as Shankly recognised Stein's talents when Celtic first won the European Cup he said:

Jock - "you are immortal":

Shankley looked up to Stein - any player that Jock had, liverpool wanted - and hence in 1977 Liverpool bought the finished article.

[Annasfield]

I have that book too.

[Mick Mac]

Ah - what book - I made the whole thing up. I'm sure I did.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

For all Liverpool Fans 1 minute 41 seconds on You Tube when being on The Liverpool Spion Kop was fantastic(like The "Jungle" at Celtic Park!)..put the following into the You Tube Search and watch intil the end Guys..

Liverpool FC - The Kop Crowd....

[DaveR]

Bobby Robson

Alf Ramsey

John Wark

Steve Redgrave

Martin Johnson

The last two are my nod to sport outside football and ITFC, but if I was 100% honest I'd probably sacrifice Johnson and Redgrave for any two of Muhren, Thijssen, Mariner, Butcher, Beattie or Burley.

[Annasfield]

Still can be fantastic TLS - especially during a derby or an European night (you need loyalty for these games). Unfortuantely Anfield is full of day trippers now who go to the match only to take photos of Gerrard taking a corner and say they've been.

No interest in singing the songs or willing on the team. Shame really :'(

Annnyway, back on topic......

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Annasfield Wrote:

Still can be fantastic TLS - especially during a derby or an European night (you need loyalty for

> these games).

Unfortuantely Anfield is full of day trippers now who go to the match only to take photos of Gerrard taking a corner and say they've been.

Tell me about it!....and ManU the same.

What did you think of the sway of the crowd in 5 different directions at once!