Leicester's 100 Sporting Greats

[davieG]

According to the Merc

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/SPORTING-GREATS-10/article-3214646-detail/article.html

[Edmund]

That's a pretty fair top ten.

Is it only based on players or are managers included? If they are, I'd of probably slipped Martin O'neill in there.

81 Joel Stransky

The only flaw with the list is that not one of the Underwood brothers made it into the top 100 Not sure how they worked that one out.

[sdb]

No Heskey? Or have I missed him? 2 World Cups, record amount of League Cup wins, 60 odd England caps, Champions League campaigns, UEFA Cup, FA Cups, 100+ prem goals, top 10 pl appearances.

[orangecity23]

That's a pretty fair top ten.

Is it only based on players or are managers included? If they are, I'd of probably slipped Martin O'neill in there.

81 Joel Stransky

The only flaw with the list is that not one of the Underwood brothers made it into the top 100 Not sure how they worked that one out.

Rory Underwood was in it, I recall reading it earlier in the week.

[jonthefox]

Good to see city make up 5 of the top ten.

[gazfox9]

That's a pretty fair top ten.

Is it only based on players or are managers included? If they are, I'd of probably slipped Martin O'neill in there.

81 Joel Stransky

The only flaw with the list is that not one of the Underwood brothers made it into the top 100 Not sure how they worked that one out.

MON was number 24 Yeah i thought he may have been a little higher considering what he achieved here. Surprised Gary Lineker only made #4 too. Interesting read though.

[SOCCERROO FOX]

David Gower plated for Leicestershire........didn't know that good darts

[Edmund]

Rory Underwood was in it, I recall reading it earlier in the week.

MON was number 24 Yeah i thought he may have been a little higher considering what he achieved here. Surprised Gary Lineker only made #4 too. Interesting read though.

not sure how I missed them both although I only skim read through the list.

The Underwood brothers were awesome for Tigers as well as England.

[Ultra]

I lost interest in the series after Day 1. The treatment of Steve Claridge and Matt Elliott was a disgrace in itself.

But the omission of Emile Heskey is a truly appalling oversight. His family and friends will feel violated and have every right to do so. An Ali G catchphrase springs readily to mind here and cannot easily be dispelled.

Another epic fail by the toxic tabloid.

[Manwell Pablo]

I lost interest in the series after Day 1. The treatment of Steve Claridge and Matt Elliott was a disgrace in itself.

But the omission of Emile Heskey is a truly appalling oversight. His family and friends will feel violated and have every right to do so. An Ali G catchphrase springs readily to mind here and cannot easily be dispelled.

Another epic fail by the toxic tabloid.

You just don't like them because they ripped the sh1t out of you when your trousers fell down.

[Ozwin]

I always found it strage how Gordon Banks is more of a hero or icon at Stoke than he is in Leicester. I know the way he left Leicester wasn't the best but he deserves a statue here if anywhere surely?

[Zingari]

88 Tim Wood

“Fighter Tim can’t resist another round” was the penultimate story about Tim Wood in the Mercury, nursing a pint in a city bar, 11am on a weekday morning. The last one was his obituary.

London-born Tim was the boxer who made it to the top despite his lifestyle. Winning every one of his first 30 fights, the 20 year-old Wood was crowned British ABA heavyweight champion after flooring bookies’ favourite, Liverpool’s Les McGowan, “the Human Threshing Machine”, just two minutes into the first round.

Always a drinker and a smoker, he dropped down to light heavyweight in 1974. The gamble paid off – two years later, Wood became light-heavyweight champion of Great Britain.

He died in September 2009, aged 59.

genuinely shocked by this and don't know how i missed the news ( i usually go on hols in September though )

i remember him well and went to the fight in London's Grosvenor hotel when he won the title after john conteh relinquished it

i can't remember his opponent but i think he was from Manchester and his first name was Paul ( i think )

[Starkwell]

A stint at loughborough uni is a bit tenuous to justify someone as a leicestershire sporting great.

Based on that, shouldn't people like Roberto Mancini or Collymore, or even Sven be included, because they lived in Leicestershire for a period of time?

I mean, take Seb Coe, he was a great sportsman, but his success was as an international athlete not as a representative of Leicestershire.

This could have been a celebration of sporting talent that emerged from within the county, or at least long term representatives of the county.