Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Thought this deserved another thread, really - given that it's 8 pages on in the thread it's originally from:
No-one should ever be asked to risk their life for a game of cricket, I make no apologies for being of that opinion.
Yes, Dean Jones and Eddie Paynter are to be credited for their efforts but Jardine and Border are to be disgraced for expecting them to go through it.
Rich - no regrets? Allan Border has repeatedly said that he was horrified when he realised what he'd done, having seen Jones unconscious in hospital on a flued-drip that night. He realised he'd almost killed someone for an ultimately trivial cause.
Tim Henman - yes, it's oh so disgraceful to lose 4 times to the player many regard as the greatest ever to play the game, isn't it? So Henman isn't the greatest player ever - wow, then he should be labelled a "typical British loser". He's also lost to Ivanisevic in a competition right from the book of fairytales - no-one and nothing was going to stop Goran that year, his triumph was quite the biggest astonishment in sporting history, surely.
Since 2002 he's been past his peak (while still good) and had he been born maybe 8 years earlier I'm pretty confident he'd have won several Grand Slams.
Eddie The Eagle - another who's loved for trying his best when there was no-one else. No, he wasn't very good - no-one pretended he was. No-one pretended he was anything other than an ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation.
Frank Bruno: haven't a clue, don't know a thing about boxing, don't want to. From what Mum says to me, though, Bruno's not loved for his boxing ability (like Lewis), he's loved for being the very anethma of the Tyson ideal - and if anyone would really say that Tyson was a better human-being than Bruno then frankly I think most would agree that they need their head examined.
BoyBrumby said:
Langeveldt said:
Neil Pickup said:
And some of us love to describe ourselves as champions of the substandard. We love to knock ourselves.BoyBrumby said:
No-one should ever be asked to risk their life for a game of cricket, I make no apologies for being of that opinion.
Yes, Dean Jones and Eddie Paynter are to be credited for their efforts but Jardine and Border are to be disgraced for expecting them to go through it.
Rich - no regrets? Allan Border has repeatedly said that he was horrified when he realised what he'd done, having seen Jones unconscious in hospital on a flued-drip that night. He realised he'd almost killed someone for an ultimately trivial cause.
Tim Henman - yes, it's oh so disgraceful to lose 4 times to the player many regard as the greatest ever to play the game, isn't it? So Henman isn't the greatest player ever - wow, then he should be labelled a "typical British loser". He's also lost to Ivanisevic in a competition right from the book of fairytales - no-one and nothing was going to stop Goran that year, his triumph was quite the biggest astonishment in sporting history, surely.
Since 2002 he's been past his peak (while still good) and had he been born maybe 8 years earlier I'm pretty confident he'd have won several Grand Slams.
Eddie The Eagle - another who's loved for trying his best when there was no-one else. No, he wasn't very good - no-one pretended he was. No-one pretended he was anything other than an ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation.
Frank Bruno: haven't a clue, don't know a thing about boxing, don't want to. From what Mum says to me, though, Bruno's not loved for his boxing ability (like Lewis), he's loved for being the very anethma of the Tyson ideal - and if anyone would really say that Tyson was a better human-being than Bruno then frankly I think most would agree that they need their head examined.
lol