Heroes then and Now

[grecian]

Ok, really bored & hungover so can't be arsed to go out, so I thought I'd start a stupid thread.

Now I was thinking about sportsman who you Idolized when you first started getting into sports, and ones nowadays who you probably just tolerate more than the other ****s. Well you do if your as jaded and miserable as me.

So my lists for various sports:

Then Mike Gatting, nowadays hmm, probably Stuart Broad or Jos.
Then Nick Faldo, now Alvaro Quiros
Then Dusty Hare, now n/a
Then John Watson, now n/a
Then Tony Kellow, now really tricky one, was Ryan Harley when he was with us, always liked Joe Cole, but now he should retire, umm, probably Super Mario for the lolz.
Athletics Then, to my eternal shame Coe, I didn't know he was a ****ing Tory did I, Now, lovely, lovely Jessica, did I mention she was lovely.
Then Super brat, nowadays really struggling, such dour *****, I miss tantrums, probably Petko or Heather Watson.

Obviously there is no League player, as I'm not Northern.

 

[Eds]

Then Michael Owen, now anyone but Michael Owen.

 

[Cabinet96]

Then Andrew Flintoff, now Dale Steyn.

Then Cesc Fabregas, now any **** that hasn't left Arsenal.

 

[duffer]

Henry, Vieira, Bergkamp, Pires, Campbell. Now ummmm........

 

[duffer]

Oh wait, when you first started getting into sports.

Then Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley. Now Lebron James.

 

[grecian]

Oh yeah septic sports, I used to like John Riggins, and the Harlem Globetrotters.

 

[fredfertang]

Then

Robin Friday

None now, heroes let you down eventually (Friday the exception that proves the rule)

 

[GIMH]

Then: Aldo, Pat Nevin. Now: Andy Robinson, Owain Fon Williams
Then: Freddie, Nasser Hussain. Now: Jimmy, Broad, Pietersen
Then: Damon Hill. Now: me in my Golf

 

[fredfertang]

my Golf

Not convinced that's not something better left unsaid

 

[GIMH]

***y and you know it

 

[fredfertang]

***y and you know it

Nah - just like a Trabant without the good bits

 

[cpr]

. Now: me in my Golf

Great, you've just knocked a grand off the sale price of mine. Might aswell pull the badge off and tell everyone its a Skoda.

 

[MrPrez]

Then: Kallis
Now: de Villiers.

 

[Turbinator]

Then: Rahul Dravid (Cricket), Reggie Miller (Basketball), Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shanahan (Ice Hockey), Albert Pujols (Baseball).

 

[Teja.]

Cricket: Then, Waqar Younis. Now, Kumar Sangakkara - if I can only name one.

Football: Then, Thierry Henry. Now, Arjen Robben (Don't really follow it - These two are the ones that have stood out form an illiterate perspective to be extremely skillfull. Particularly Robben)

 

[GIMH]

Robben is a **** ****

 

[Hurricane]

whoever tottenhams gk was in the early 1980s

watched him perform miracles in one fa cup.

 

[Spikey]

then dustin fletcher now dustin fletcher

obv

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Cricket Then - Robin Smith. Now - Alastair Cook
Football Then - Gary Lineker. Now - Lionel Messi
Golf Then - Nick Faldo. Now - Lee Westwood

 

[Johnners]

Cricket - Then: Ricky Ponting/Andy Bichel/Jimmy Maher. Now: Ricky Ponting/Mitchell Johnson/Callum Ferguson

Football - Then: Harry Kewell/Michael Owen/Raul . Now: Fernando Torres/Rafael van der Vaart/Sergio Aguero

Motorsport - Then: Ayrton Senna/Damon Hill/Glenn Seton. Now: Lewis Hamilton/Dan Ricciardo/Mark Winterbottom