Childhood Hero

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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Daisy Duke :P
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Keegan/Dalglish/Rush

    and weirdly Johnny Rep

    But i grew up with punk where, as we know, there are no more heroes
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • grantus
    grantus Posts: 690
    dougzz wrote:
    grantus wrote:
    Aberdeen legend Willie Miller :!:

    Maradona - still remember watching as a 10 year old his wonder goal against England in the 1986 World Cup QF - his second one wasn't bad either................

    Never forgiven him for pulling back Trevor Francis, how did we (England) not get a penalty for that?

    Don't remember that? do remember Lineker's 'miss' until years later I realised it was actually nicked off his head by the Argie defender

    Off on a tangent - was watching England v Holland from 1988 Euros on ESPN classic the other day - even though they got humped, that England team played good football compared to your current mob. Hard to believe the stick poor Bobby Robson (RIP) got in your gutter media for a QF and SF at the World Cup :roll:
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  • JoeBond
    JoeBond Posts: 20
    Landis, Armstrong, Hincape
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    Must be nice to see that your boys are still making the headlines Joe!
  • JoeBond
    JoeBond Posts: 20
    yea yea yea - look no one was more pissed off than me with the whole Landis thing. I even bought a Phonak kit and green doesnt even suit me
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    That's nothing. I bought a hearing aid ...and I'm not even deaf :D:D:D
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Cycling: Andy Ruffel, Greg Hill and Eddie Fiola.

    Non-cycling: Joe Brown and Eric Jones (Climbing), Joss Naylor (Fell Runner)
  • OFOAB
    OFOAB Posts: 905
    Oh callow youths - Gaul, Anquetil and Bahamontes ... and Arthur Metcalfe!
    I wish I was any place but the someplace I\'m in
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    edited September 2010
    Lemond, Millar, Sean Yates, Phil Anderson, Boardman on his Lotus... Michael Jordan, Rocky Rocastle, Ian Wright (before i disowned him for sending his boy to Chelsea)
  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Bill Wallace. Chuck Norris. Jackie Chan.

    They were my childhood bedroom poster boys!

    Bill "Super Foot" Wallace, christ that brings back some memories.

    For me it was Jackie Chan and Sho Kosugi, to name a few.
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    George Hincapie
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Tony Cottee, Steve Cram, Daley Thompson and Indiana Jones for me.

    Cycling wise - LeMond, Millar and Roche

    I still want to be Indiana Jones more than the others.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • fjellrunner
    fjellrunner Posts: 64
    I'm of this era - Lemond, Millar, Yates, Boardman

    And Kylie
  • zippypablo
    zippypablo Posts: 398
    fjellrunner wrote:
    I'm of this era - Lemond, Millar, Yates, Boardman

    And Kylie
    yea me too except for Boardman. Phil Ligget was unashamedley biased towards English speaking riders and I remember cheering on Lemond in 86 against that nasty Frenchman going back on his promise! I would also add Hampsten to the list.
    If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Victor Hugo).
  • zippypablo
    zippypablo Posts: 398
    oh and Allan Peiper too. His book is worth a read but that's a different thread.
    If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Victor Hugo).
  • thebigredone
    thebigredone Posts: 23
    Barry Hoban and to a lesser extent Michael Wright.
  • oaky
    oaky Posts: 141
    Colt Seavers and Templeton Peck.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    oaky wrote:
    Colt Seavers and Templeton Peck.

    Another "Fall Guy" fan!!!! 8)
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Lemond and Indurain for cycling.

    Wayne Gretzky for everything else.
  • Gavin Cook
    Gavin Cook Posts: 307
    Lucho Herrera (cafe de columbia) . No one could keep with him when the road ramped up.
  • Gavin Cook
    Gavin Cook Posts: 307
    Forgot to mention Bernard Hinalt. The most entertaining rider of the tour of all time for me.
  • angrynortherner
    angrynortherner Posts: 530
    Chris Boardman and Juli Furtado.
  • rockmount
    rockmount Posts: 761
    George Best, Eddie Merckx, and Sean Kelly.
    .. who said that, internet forum people ?
  • The Jack
    The Jack Posts: 52
    Well it wasn´t actually childhood but I still remeber an article in The Face about Indurain. The headline "The fittest man in the world" seemed so cool for not even a newbie who didn´t know anything about cycling.
    "Wo ist mein Fahrrad?"

    -Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk waking up from a coma after a crashing with his bicycle-
  • gattocattivo
    gattocattivo Posts: 500
    Robert Millar
    &
    Brian McClair :wink:
  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    Not got one - I only got into cycling aged 43.

    If it was *first* cycling hero then mine's probably Basso because of the Overcoming DVD. (Before we knew what we now know of course.)
    My hour on the plinth
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Anyone in Raleigh/Banana but mainly Chris Walker. Nice to see him in Procycling this month.

    After that Pascal Richard.
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  • seemunkee
    seemunkee Posts: 206
    Eric Heiden for both his speedskating and cycling
    Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Warren Harding, Jim Bridwell (climbing)
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Moomaloid wrote:
    Rocky Rocastle

    :(

    Lovely player. Still gets his name sung every away game.
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