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Who are your non-footballing heroes?
Stig
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Leonardo Da Vinci - Brilliance in several fields
Jesse Owens - Getting one (or four) over against the bad boys
Barnes Wallis - The ingenuity to help win a war
Alan Turing - The ingenuity to help win a war
Frank Whittle - Imagine Conceiving of a jet engine
Albert Einstein - Brilliance
Stephen Hawking - Triumph over adversity
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Best engineer ever
Yuri Gagarin - Courage (or stupidity?) beyond compare
Robert DeNiro - I know it looks trite after the others, but was there ever a better actor?
Jesse Owens - Getting one (or four) over against the bad boys
Barnes Wallis - The ingenuity to help win a war
Alan Turing - The ingenuity to help win a war
Frank Whittle - Imagine Conceiving of a jet engine
Albert Einstein - Brilliance
Stephen Hawking - Triumph over adversity
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Best engineer ever
Yuri Gagarin - Courage (or stupidity?) beyond compare
Robert DeNiro - I know it looks trite after the others, but was there ever a better actor?
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Elvis Presley - Never has & never will be an entertainer like him, ever.
Winston Churchill - Enough said
Jean Pierre Blanchard - the first man to use a parachute, how brave was he??????0 -
I've never heard of JPB before. That is brave. Do you know much about him, was it a voluntary jump or was he going to crash anyway?0
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Sir Winston Churchill
every bloody soldier sent to war with shit kit , shit pay, shit conditions and still manage to be the BEST in the business bar none.
martin johnson
sir ian botham0 -
Only one hero ... Whispering Death0
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[cite]Posted By: Danny Kelly[/cite]I've never heard of JPB before. That is brave. Do you know much about him, was it a voluntary jump or was he going to crash anyway?
Nothing really, just always intrigued me who was the first, so did a Google search and and the general consensus was him.0 -
proper cricketers in them days facing holding wearing a cap0
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[cite]Posted By: Riscardo[/cite]Only one hero ...Whispering Death
Ritchie Benaud? ;-)
Man alive, that first delivery was so fast I was looking for the ball to come when I realised the stump was already flying off in the other direction.0 -
he started that run up in wimbledon by the looks of it, was that the year tont grieg slagged off the west indies and they destroyed us?0
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Ian Botham
Tommy Cooper0 -
Russell Howard asked this last night at the filming of Edinburgh and Beyond. The room came up with from what I remember Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Jesus and Bob Marley.
My personal non footballing heroes are...
Derren Brown
Gordon Ramsay
Stephen Fry
Steh MacFarlane (Creator of Family Guy and American Dad)0 -
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[cite]Posted By: adamtheaddick[/cite]he started that run up in wimbledon by the looks of it, was that the year tont grieg slagged off the west indies and they destroyed us?
Yes that was the year Tony Greig said that he would make the West Indies grovel ...
Oakster put me onto this book, primed and ready for my holibobs
GROVEL[cite]0 -
Grovel is a good read for the the memories of the players of that wonderful series, however their is too much digging into social problems for my liking in a SPORT book.0
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Danny Baker - Living legend.0
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Thomas Edison - brilliant inventor and fantastic outlook:
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
Geoff Boycott
Harry Hill
Chief Wiggum0 -
Great story about Michael Holding in a piece about Bill Wyman and cricket in last weeks Sunday Times. Well worth a read.
I.T. Botham is my all time sporting hero including football
Other than that I think its just ordinary people who have positively affected my life.0 -
Ian Botham for his work on and off the cricket field - he's raised millions for leukaemia charity.
Shirley Nolan for starting the Anthony Nolan Trust.
Doctors, nurses etc.
Old soldiers etc.
Anyone triumphs over adversity or puts themselves in a situation where they risk their life and limb for others.0 -
Muhammed Ali....0
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Lennie Bruce
Tony Benn
My late Father0 -
Barry Sheene0
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Edith Cavell shot as a spy in 1916 who said when waiting for the firing squad " patritism is not enough , i must have no hate in my heart"
Charles Dickens ---- books that tell more than a tale, they are a social history of desperite times.
Floureance nightingale ---- How truely brave was that woman.
Douglas Barder --- No DDA act when he was about flew Spitfires and escaped prisons with no legs ? you cant make that up .0 -
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Would go with an old teacher of mine from junior school - Mr Hills.
Also would add Seb Coe to that. One of the smoothest running styles I have ever seen. remember watching the 1500m win in the 1984 olympics on an old portable b/w telly in my bedroom.0 -
My Parents - End of Story0
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McMillan Cancer Nurses - they do an incredible job, dealing with terminal illness every day of their lives. They helped my poor old dad enormously in the weeks before he finally died. Thanks ladies, you will always be appreciated.0
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John Howard, OIC of D company 2nd OX and Bucks Glider infanrty Reg. He led the surprise attack on The Orne River Bridge (Pegasus Bridge). Howard and 90 men landed in gliders and held the bridge agianst the 2nd Panzer division, if this had not happened we would not have held the beaches and thousands more would have died.
'Johnny' Johnson - the highest scoring Allied fighter ace from WW2, A Nutter of the highest order!
My Grandad.
Proper Heroes and not a bat or ball between them!!
Sporting hero - Ali0 -
[cite]Posted By: Alex Wright[/cite]Lennie Bruce
Tony Benn
My late Father
Never got the Lennie Bruce thing, I know a lot of comics quote him as a hero or inspiration, but everything I have seen of him I find average, maybe he stood out more in his era?0 -
Sir Ranulph Fiennes - Climbed just about every mountain known and ran 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 different continents, just 3 weeks after a heart attack. LEGEND!
Dave Grohl - All round rock legend (sings, plays drum, guitar, etc) and seems to be a general nice guy.
Guy Grieve - For his book 'Call Of The Wild'. He had the testicular fortitude to live in the Alaskan Wilderness with no training for a year.
Charles Blondin - Mid 1800's stuntman 'The Great Blondin'. Tightrope walked across the Niagra Falls. Also a family member (i aint as brave!)0 -
[cite]Posted By: Ketman[/cite]My Parents - End of Story
I thought you would say my Dad ;-)0 -
Liz Hurley
Carol Vorderman
Halle Berry
Clare Nasir
Kate Garraway
Nigella Lawson
Carol Thatcher
Kelly Brook
Alesha Dixon
Fern Britton
Holly Willoughby
Charlie Theron
J Lo
Cheryl Cole
Billie Piper
Coleen Rooney
Tess Daly
Kylie Minogue
Martine McCutheon
Eva Longria
Abi Titmuss
Zoe Lucker
Mariah Carey
Suzanne Shaw0 -
[cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]Liz Hurley
Carol Vorderman
Halle Berry
Clare Nasir
Kate Garraway
Nigella Lawson
Carol Thatcher
Kelly Brook
Alesha Dixon
Fern Britton
Holly Willoughby
Charlie Theron
J Lo
Cheryl Cole
Billie Piper
Coleen Rooney
Tess Daly
Kylie Minogue
Martine McCutheon
Eva Longria
Abi Titmuss
Zoe Lucker
Mariah Carey
Suzanne Shaw
You sound like that bloke on "Throw Momma From The Train" who's writing a book called, "Women I'd like to pork".0 -
The guy who first ate a whelk either f**kin starving or very very brave !
on the guy that thought of eating jellied eels "so i have just caught his snake like thing which is a fish (yeah right !) and now i think ill cook it then wont eat it foreawhile then let if set solid in its own "juice" and then ill eat it " brave or a complete loon0
