Who's your country's Maradona?

[Spoonsky]

Three days of national mourning? We'd better get this when Terry Butcher carks it.

Well, whose death would actually send your country into mourning? Thread open to cities as well, like Dalglish or Gerrard for Liverpool.

[Lewis]

Nobody other than senior royalty.

[Spikey M]

Princess Diana. I didn't understand why then and I still don't understand why now, but it broke the country in a way that I don't think it could be broken today.

[Offshore Toon]

Probably happened discretely when Saville popped it over here.

If anybody fancies a good documentary, this is brilliant.


https://youtu.be/lq6lJsBz9UY

[Lewis]

As for sport, Alex 'Sir Alex Ferguson' Ferguson is still the biggest figure in British sport by an absolute mile. When he goes it will be wall-to-wall coverage like nothing you've seen outside of serious historical figures snuffing it.

[Smjffy]

Bale now I'd imagine.

[Smjffy]

As for sport, Alex 'Sir Alex Ferguson' Ferguson is still the biggest figure in British sport by an absolute mile. When he goes it will be wall-to-wall coverage like nothing you've seen outside of serious historical figures snuffing it.

Strange one that because when ever he trends on Twitter, I almost always think "oh shit". I sense you're right though.

[Lewis]

Yeah, when he had his turn a while back every club in the world was tweeting positive vibes. He should take one for the team and croak during extra time of any future Scottish referendum.

[Boydy]

George Best. We even named an airport after him.

[phonics]

Attenbrough.

[Queenslander]

For sport probably Cathy Freeman or another Test Cricketer in their prime.

Actors and singers probably one of the Hemsworths or Kylie Minogue.

[Shindig]

Princess Diana. I didn't understand why then and I still don't understand why now, but it broke the country in a way that I don't think it could be broken today.

Agreed. I can't see anyone having that kind of public outpour.

[Don]

Fucking look at the state of your societies, mourning athletes and skets who married well.

At 81, ours will go any day now and I'll probs take a week bereavement leave off work.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Ali_khamenei_in_august_2020.jpg

[Lewis]

The Qasem Soleimani funeral was a decent effort.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sir Alex and David Beckham are the big two in this country. I guess if Lewis Hamilton died in a race a la Senna it would be stop the news for a month sort of thing, but if he got cancer then not so much.

[Baz]

Nah nobody cares about Hamilton if you're not into F1. I forgot he existed until reading his name.

Like nobody cares about Oisin Murphy outside of racing fans.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The actual truth is that no one whose career has been on Sky is a properly big figure, and that even includes all the footballers since 1992. The only exceptions are those who (via England games on terrestrial) made crossover into household names and even then you're looking at Beckham, Rooney and very few others. Using the 'my mum' test, she wouldn't have a clue who Steven Gerrard was, and maybe not even Frank Lampard.

[Lewis]

And most people who know David Beckham think he was some average set piece merchant over-hyped for his haircuts and wife.

[Dark Soldier]

I'd absolutely fucking feel it if Tony Adams shoved so much coke up his nose his heart would fuck a beat. He slammed prime Caprice despite looking and smelling like a dead dog's dick.

[Dark Soldier]

Seriously prime Caprice would fuck your dick into palsy. The cunt was an alcoholic Southerner. Wrecks ya brain.

[Dark Soldier]

Probably only on 20k a week back then. She'd be riding Lingard into Elysium now for his 100k a week.

[phonics]

Well this is a DS we haven’t seen for 5 years.

[Luca]

Wayne Gretzky snuffing it would probably be the one for Canada.

On balance it would be Totti for Italy, especially because of the Rome effect.

[John Arne]

Apart from the obvious one, Mr Ho Chi Minh, namesake of my current city. Next in line is probably this legend (on the pitch, bit of a dick off it).

Le Cong Vinh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHhFO0HqrQA&ab_channel=VFFChannel

[Trancemeister]

Hard to find someone who is equally loved by everyone but Greta Thunberg would probably get the god treatment from the left/media.

[Giggles]

Paul McGrath maybe.

[mugbull]

I don't think the Czechs mourn anything anything at all

[Mike]

It’s Gazza right?

[Queenslander]

Dammit it's Mel Gibson down here.

[Spikey M]

Dammit it's Mel Gibson down here.

Funny way to spell Kylie Minogue

[Queenslander]

It is 100% Kylie Minogue my dementia brain just remembered the Mel Gibson is still alive so he is my second choice.

[Spikey M]

2nd Choice? Funny way to spell Alan Fletcher.

[Shindig]

Apart from the obvious one, Mr Ho Chi Minh, namesake of my home city.

Crewe?

[Spikey M]

Tom Crewes?

[John Arne]

Crewe?

Oh yeah, the city where I live, not home city.

[John Arne]

Dammit it's Mel Gibson down here.

Isn't one of the famous Aussies actually Kiwi?

[Manc]

"I was born in Crewe, but I was Made in the Viet Cong".

[Queenslander]

Isn't one of the famous Aussies actually Kiwi?

Russell Crowe

One Fighter Martin “The Situ-Asian” Nguyen is true blue Australian carnt

[randomlegend]

Probably happened discretely when Saville popped it over here.

If anybody fancies a good documentary, this is brilliant.


https://youtu.be/lq6lJsBz9UY

What the fuck is this shit :D

Did this guy escape from the mental institution?

[Offshore Toon]

What the fuck is this shit :D

Did this guy escape from the mental institution?
No idea. I don't know if you saw it, but skipping to 12:10 provides one of the main highlights. There's gold throughout once you get past the boring intro.

[randomlegend]

It was the bit with the figure in the window and then the ones down the road that had me bewildered. "Look, no camera tricks" :D

[Offshore Toon]

It was the bit with the figure in the window and then the ones down the road that had me bewildered. "Look, no camera tricks" :D
That was pretty much the bit I meant at 12:10. So good.

[Panda Bear]

Wayne Gretzky by a landslide. (Ideally not how he dies, though.)

[Shindig]

I'm also thinking Brazil has already had theirs with Senna.

[Mellberg]

Pele m8.

[igor_balis]

Who is the board's Maradona?

[Spoonsky]

The US doesn't have one, I'm pretty sure; Kobe might be as close as you get. Any political figure is hated by half the country, then in sports you get the weird situation where we dominate the sports we invented, to the point that nobody could be a 'national hero' because there's not enough global competition, and we're shit at ones we didn't invent.

[Lofty]

Sir David Attenborough?

[phonics]

Who is the board's Maradona?
Wedge. Whether it was Albanian Mafia, calling DM's wife or being TTH Julien Assange, it wasn't just that he did it, it was how he did it. An absolute showman.

[Manc]

This country's obsession with old white men is unnatural.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The US doesn't have one, I'm pretty sure; Kobe might be as close as you get. Any political figure is hated by half the country, then in sports you get the weird situation where we dominate the sports we invented, to the point that nobody could be a 'national hero' because there's not enough global competition, and we're shit at ones we didn't invent.

Sometimes it takes me aback when I see things from mainstream US golf coverage and get reminded just how big Tiger Woods is. He is at least ten times bigger than golf itself, over there at least, and golf isn't small. Not sure if he qualifies for true national icon status but he and MJ must be close.

[Spikey M]

The other MJ was Americas, surely?

[Lewis]

His reputation had been slightly diminished.

[Shindig]

No idea. I don't know if you saw it, but skipping to 12:10 provides one of the main highlights. There's gold throughout once you get past the boring intro.

I'm diving in. The fact I misread William Bailhache as 'Ballache' means I'm giving it the right amount of attention.

[Waffdon]

Nobody other than senior royalty.

Jelly and ice cream.

[Lewis]

Yeah but remember most people aren't as edgy as you.

[Spikey M]

His reputation had been slightly diminished.

It was still a pretty big deal. Even in this country they interrupted tv shows to announce it.

[Waffdon]

Yeah but remember most people aren't as edgy as you.

Coming from Lew of all people? Cute.