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Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:38 pm
by crofter
Nick Faldo??
Lennox Lewis??
agreed you cannot start adding Cricket players into the mix or else "we" will need to start adding some of our Olympic and World Championship Curlers into the fray .... so please take that fat bastard Beefy out of your list ASAP.
Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:39 pm
by IdolLiesDroog2
I was going to say surely Steve Redgrave - the "greatest olympian" ever....how about Jonathan Edwards - maybe the most dominant sportsman of their specialism in terms of records (although not necessarily overall career wins etc) ?
Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:44 pm
by Meatus
Surely we are all forgetting 'Tiger' Tim Henman, 6 Wimbledon Semi-Finals.....did Fred Perry even achieve that?
Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:51 pm
by supsim96
I did think about Lennox but plumped for Joe as the token boxer since he was world champion for an eternity and undefeated - that truly has global significance.
Lennox got beaten on at least a couple of occasions to chumps that he should have outclassed if he'd had his mind on the task fully.
Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:56 pm
by Meatus
What aboout Sir Jackie Stewart?
plus Mansell and Hill have to be in with a shout!
Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:57 pm
by supsim96
Aye Jackie and Graham Hill, John Surtees if he won world titles on bikes and formula 1 (????)
Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:00 pm
by Meatus
yes only man ever to do so!
Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:03 pm
by Meatus
What about Carl Fogarty? 59 Victories is a record for Super Bikes!
Re: Greatest Brit Sportsman Ever?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:11 am
by Jonone
Complete absence of women too. What about Ellen McArthur ?