Was Bradman a jerk?

[weldone]

How is Woods a tool?...just because you're jealous of him?

 

[social]

How is Woods a tool?...just because you're jealous of him?

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be Tiger but anyone that thinks that he is a decent, caring, honourable person is kidding themselves

What made you pick him from that list?

Many would have chosen Norman

 

[Gob]

How is Woods a tool?...just because you're jealous of him?

Don't think its ok to **** other women while being married

 

[weldone]

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be Tiger but anyone that thinks that he is a decent, caring, honourable person is kidding themselves

What made you pick him from that list?

Many would have chosen Norman

Who is Norman?

Don't think its ok to **** other women while being married

If you go down that route then one out of every 3 or so sportsmen are probably genuine tools - some of them just keep better secrets than Woods

 

[vcs]

Who is Norman?



If you go down that route then one out of every 3 or so sportsmen are probably genuine tools - some of them just keep better secrets than Woods

Almost all the top tennis players are decent guys, so are most cricketers.

 

[social]

Who is Norman?



If you go down that route then one out of every 3 or so sportsmen are probably genuine tools - some of them just keep better secrets than Woods

Greg Norman

And btw, I agree with you about infidelity and sportsmen but difference is that Woods cashed in massively on his character and was shown to be a fraud

Guys like Warne and Best never hid it

 

[weldone]

Greg Norman

never heard that name...in fact Woods is probably the only golfer that I'm aware of

 

[andruid]

Greg Norman

never heard that name...in fact Woods is probably the only golfer that I'm aware of

He was one of the biggest chokers in the history of Australiand sports AND of Golf

 

[mr_mister]

Look at Harvey's reputation as a person

Just because you are a great sportsman doesn't mean you are a decent human being

Norman?

Woods?

Best?

Warne?

OJ?

All complete tools and there are many others

a bit rough lumping that lot in with ****ing OJ of all people

 

[harsh.ag]

Best was a god. Shame to see him lumped in with Woods and Warne (not even going to go into OJ!)

 

[weldone]

Have no clue who are Best and OJ. The only Best I know of is Tino...o and George Best the English footballer of the World Cup winning team

 

[a massive zebra]

George Best the English footballer of the World Cup winning team

 

[a massive zebra]

Bradman was 24-25 years old at the time of Bodyline and he was working in a sporting goods store in Sydney and trying to turn his fame into extra money to support his wife and possibly child by that stage

No, his first child died as an infant in 1936. His other children, John and Shirley, were born in 1939 and 1941 respectively.

 

[weldone]

looks like I've messed up there...never mind my interest in football is just slightly higher than my interest in golf

 

[Burgey]

He was one of the biggest chokers in the history of Australiand sports AND of Golf

Most devastating driver of a golf ball in history. Smashed it.

 

[weldone]

That's only because Chris Gayle doesn't play golf.

 

[Contrarian]

Ian was angry because of two very valid reasons. One that as a player Bradman wanted to make as much money as possible; the anecdotes say that it was clear that he wanted to make money and he did. When he was gifted a decent amount for those times after one of his big hundreds in England, he didn't even have the courtesy to buy at least a drink for his teammates. As an administrator he wanted players to get as little as possible. And when he said to Ian Chappell that 'And I achieved all that without getting a divorce" then Ian said that the bastard is getting personal now. Bradman was also a big liar and he went to his grave lying about the Adelaide Leak for which Fingleton being the only journalist in the team got the blame. It was only sometime in the 70s when Fingleton met Pelham Warner, the English manager during the 1932-33 Ashes, to whom Woodfull said those famous words that only one team is playing cricket. That complete statement appearing in the newspapers the next day convinced the crowd that their captain was as much against the English tactics as they were that the situation came very close to a riot in Adelaide when Oldfield got hurt. It was just a matter of one person jumping over the pickets. Larwood maintained till his death that there could have been a riot that day. Bradman called it as 'the dastardly lie he (Fingleton) concocted against me' and when the investigation was taken up by Gilbert Mant he said that he hoped that it would clear his name. David Frith knew Bradman very well and sometimes if the conversation in the Don's house would get heated his wife would change the subject by asking Frith if he had composed the Obituary. Bodyline Autopsy by Frith is superbly researched and brilliantly written. No detail is left unturned and the source of the dressing room leak is revealed with supreme investigative journalism skills. The souring of relations between England and Australia, the vilification of Larwood was all Bradman's doing.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Ian was angry because of two very valid reasons. One that as a player Bradman wanted to make as much money as possible; the anecdotes say that it was clear that he wanted to make money and he did. When he was gifted a decent amount for those times after one of his big hundreds in England, he didn't even have the courtesy to buy at least a drink for his teammates. As an administrator he wanted players to get as little as possible. And when he said to Ian Chappell that 'And I achieved all that without getting a divorce" then Ian said that the bastard is getting personal now. Bradman was also a big liar and he went to his grave lying about the Adelaide Leak for which Fingleton being the only journalist in the team got the blame. It was only sometime in the 70s when Fingleton met Pelham Warner, the English manager during the 1932-33 Ashes, to whom Woodfull said those famous words that only one team is playing cricket. That complete statement appearing in the newspapers the next day convinced the crowd that their captain was as much against the English tactics as they were that the situation came very close to a riot in Adelaide when Oldfield got hurt. It was just a matter of one person jumping over the pickets. Larwood maintained till his death that there could have been a riot that day. Bradman called it as 'the dastardly lie he (Fingleton) concocted against me' and when the investigation was taken up by Gilbert Mant he said that he hoped that it would clear his name. David Frith knew Bradman very well and sometimes if the conversation in the Don's house would get heated his wife would change the subject by asking Frith if he had composed the Obituary. Bodyline Autopsy by Frith is superbly researched and brilliantly written. No detail is left unturned and the source of the dressing room leak is revealed with supreme investigative journalism skills. The souring of relations between England and Australia, the vilification of Larwood was all Bradman's doing.

ok

 

[Burgey]

Ian was angry because of two very valid reasons. One that as a player Bradman wanted to make as much money as possible; the anecdotes say that it was clear that he wanted to make money and he did. When he was gifted a decent amount for those times after one of his big hundreds in England, he didn't even have the courtesy to buy at least a drink for his teammates. As an administrator he wanted players to get as little as possible. And when he said to Ian Chappell that 'And I achieved all that without getting a divorce" then Ian said that the bastard is getting personal now. Bradman was also a big liar and he went to his grave lying about the Adelaide Leak for which Fingleton being the only journalist in the team got the blame. It was only sometime in the 70s when Fingleton met Pelham Warner, the English manager during the 1932-33 Ashes, to whom Woodfull said those famous words that only one team is playing cricket. That complete statement appearing in the newspapers the next day convinced the crowd that their captain was as much against the English tactics as they were that the situation came very close to a riot in Adelaide when Oldfield got hurt. It was just a matter of one person jumping over the pickets. Larwood maintained till his death that there could have been a riot that day. Bradman called it as 'the dastardly lie he (Fingleton) concocted against me' and when the investigation was taken up by Gilbert Mant he said that he hoped that it would clear his name. David Frith knew Bradman very well and sometimes if the conversation in the Don's house would get heated his wife would change the subject by asking Frith if he had composed the Obituary. Bodyline Autopsy by Frith is superbly researched and brilliantly written. No detail is left unturned and the source of the dressing room leak is revealed with supreme investigative journalism skills. The souring of relations between England and Australia, the vilification of Larwood was all Bradman's doing.

Must have been an unusual meeting, given Warner died in 1963.

But please, carry on.

 

[Coronis]

But yeah he was kind of a jerk. Lots of athletes who are considered the greatest in their respective sport were jerks.