I think you can have a hero in a solitary match, but legendary status should only be awarded long after the candidate has departed/retired (in my opinion at least). I'm not sure current or fresh memory of an individual should be a factor. It's a bit like when they have polls for the best single, band or singer of all time. Quite often acts that have been around for twenty minutes feature highly and beat the likes of Elvis etc. in the rankings... which is quite ridiculous. On the Rs front, I'd probably include Wild Thing alongside Cookie. There are heroes in the current squad, but nobody yet ready to become a legend. I like to think of Barton as being something of a cult, though.
I have seen Stan the Man and Adel both play. Stan is a legend...Adel is not yet there... Stan could do things that even Adel can only dream of. And what a character too..... stopping to ask the crowd the winner of the 4.00 at Doncaster. Skipping out of team talks at 2.45 to lay a bet on the horses, and coming back to score a hat-trick. (Yeah I know different times)... Adel is a great player, but he cannot yet turn it on the way that Stan the Man could...but there are traits there...the bus home from Fulham, the trouble with the bong...a legend in the making
Sadly it was only a shisha, a bong would have instantly given him legend status! please log in to view this image
I said Cup Final not the Cup. Read my post again. Fair enough you on the right would probably like everyone over 60 put down as unproductive but then again where would your votes come from? Demographics, demographics... Fair enough concerning Roma.
Looking back there are those that do stick in the mind......legendary no....but noteworthy, absolutely. I can't think of a title that you would put on somebody that is not quite legendary, but close......ideas anyone ?
There are many players we grow to admire over the years and also many who have a single moment of brilliance that lives in our memory but legends are surely something else. The only ones I can think of that truly fit that category: Rodney Marsh Stan Bowles Phil Parkes Gerry Francis Alan McDonald Les Ferdinand
Yes, the term HERO & LEGEND are nowadays overstated when you consider this ............... As a Bomber Command researcher, I may have a bias view but I can tell you that the real hero's are those who have and currently serve our combined Arm Forces. The many who flew with Bomber Command took off in their aircraft each night, not knowing whether they would return. My father was a rear gunner on Lancasters, they removed the rear perspex so they could hopefully see an attacking aircraft, whilst sitting in up to minus -40 degree temperatures. If they were attacked by an aircraft, often there guns were frozen, along with them having icicles frozen to their faces. On the outward bound trip, they would be attacked by fighter aircraft an flak, if they made it to the 'target', they then had to endure the same home. A tour would consist of a minimum of 30 operations. I know of crew members who where blasted out of their aircraft with no parachute when it exploded from being attacked and they fell 20,000 odd thousand feet, only to fall on fresh powder snow on steep mountains. They were then captured by Germans and accused as being spies because the Germans did not believe they could survive such a fall. Here is a short story of my fathers crew, flying what is believed to be the longest Lancaster operation in WW2............... and the reason why they did it! http://www.heureka.clara.net/lincolnshire/longest-lancaster-operation.htm Sorry to ramble on. I could tell you many stories but I'll refrain................................... Two out of every three crew man did not return. To my way of thinking, these people are the real heroes. JP
Agree with that perhaps add Terry Venable as player and manager and Brian Bedford for all those goals (before my time but read the book)
