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Your Heroes

bibble
bibble Posts: 1,052
edited September 2009 in Not Sports Related
As a kid we all had heroes who we wanted to be, list them here and show your age!!

I wanted to be Barry Sheene or Paddy Powell, not fussy which one!!!

BTW Sheene told me to P!ss Off when I met him at Brands Hatch, that impressed the hell out of me. He had just finished practise and his bird lit him a fag, we were hanging around his caravan (no motorhomes in those days), he pulls up on his bike, I got his autograph and asked him if I could have his crash helmet, thats when he told me to do one, he said it with his cheeky cockernee smile on his face and everyone laughed, brilliant, and he wore Brut aftershave!!!!
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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Stuart Leary for me.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Eddie Firmani when he returned from Italy in 1963, and Georgie Fame after I first saw him play live with the Blue Flames at the Black Prince in '65.
  • bibble
    bibble Posts: 1,052
    Mist, my dad saw Hendrix play at the Black Prince in the mid sixties, I remember him coming home and saying he saw this unbelivable black guitar player who played 1 song with his teeth, my mum said he'd had 1 pint too many of 'Abbots Scrote'.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Derek Hales

    James Hunt

    Ian Botham

    Colin Powell
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,597
    James Hunt

    Derek Hales

    Kevin Keegan
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    derek hales
    nicky johns
    ian rush
    ian botham
    bob willis
  • kevtherev
    kevtherev Posts: 651
    George Best
    Derek Hales
    Daley Thompson
    Ray Treacey
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,616
    Jim Melrose

    Colin Walsh

    Bill Hicks
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,220
    kenny dalglish.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    George Best

    Roger Daltrey

    Dr. Who

    Hayley Mills - oops, wrong section, she was the one that I fancied
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  • cafcdan18
    cafcdan18 Posts: 3,664
    you can tell I am not as old as some other posters:
    Schmichael, Super Clive, Owen, Gazza
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,620
    derek hales

    steve ovett

    bjorn borg

    johan cryff
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,875
    Hoddle

    Botham and Gower

    Colin Walsh
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited September 2009
    The great Len Glover

    Cliff Holton (it seemed like he singlehandedly saved us from relegation)

    Alan Brown (Kent fast bowler)

    Colin Cowdrey

    John Snow

    Conrad Hunte

    I have been privileged to actually meet the last two named on the list
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    Dalglish

    Coe

    Faldo

    My grandad (still is)
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Football Heros - http://www.charltonlife.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8527&page=1#Item_0

    Non Football Heros - http://www.charltonlife.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=17381&page=1#Item_0
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,337
    Michael Holding ....
  • Nelsenout
    Nelsenout Posts: 661
    Alan Campbell
    Derek Hales
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,976
    Gary Lineker

    Paul Gascoigne

    Ferris Bueller
  • Bermuda_red
    Bermuda_red Posts: 458
    Joe Strummer
    Alan Knott
    James Hunt
    Derek Hales
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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    I mentioned Stuart Leary earlier....Quite simply the BEST player ever to have played for Charlton and also played cricket for Kent!
    What more could you ask for?
  • Stone
    Stone Posts: 3,026
    Footballer would have to be Peter Osgood. Class.

    Muhamed Ali from outside football. I was always in awe if him. "Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."
  • Steve Dowman
    Steve Dowman Posts: 2,406
    Allan Clarke (the footballer) yes I was a Leeds fan as a kid, David Bowie, killer Flash and Paddy, then I grew up and realised my heroes were my parents.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    Derek Hales

    Clive Mendonca

    Tom Simpson

    Ian Botham

    Bradley Wiggins

    Morrissey & Marr
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    John Hollins (Nicest guy in Football)
    Joe Strummer
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]The great Len Glover

    Cliff Holton (it seemed like he singlehandedly saved us from relegation)

    Alan Brown (Kent fast bowler)

    Colin Cowdrey

    John Snow

    Conrad Hunte

    I have been privileged to actually meet the last two named on the list

    Good shout Len.

    I remember that season when Cliff Holton came to our rescue.
    I remember him as such a charismatic, larger than life character who seemed to single-handedly lift the rest of the team.
    I have one enduring memory of him one-on-one dribbling round the goalie and slotting home.
    A class act; I was really disappointed that he left as soon as he'd arrived.

    My football heroes have almost always been strikers ; Denis Law, Eddie Firmani, Ray Treacy, King Arthur, Killer, Flash, Walshie, Simonsen, Jimmy Melrose etc etc.

    John Snow was my cricketing idol; and as a lad caused me to "support" Sussex intead of my home county, Kent!!!
    A real rebel.
    "So who's the King of the Castle,
    Now I'm the dirty rascal....."
    Remember his poem, "On being dropped"?
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    Eddie Firmani
    Kevin Ayers
    my Grandad

    Also saw Hendrix play his 2nd Brit gig at the Bromley Court Hotel. Blew my socks off!
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 963
    Carl Leaburn
  • fog horn
    fog horn Posts: 286
    Simon Webster
    Johnny H
    Super Clive
  • uncle
    uncle Posts: 4,209
    My Dad

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