Most Mediocre British Sportsperson Ever

[Lord Camomile]

I also nominate David Beckham because i want to and also because he's up his own arse and i'm sick of seeing the airhead

 

[Lord Camomile]

All of em. For a country of this size, you're pretty fucking shite at all the sports you invented.

Name the last time anyone from Spain won anything.

Apart from, y'know, recently. And a bit before that. And some time ago.

 

[isitme]

When was the last time spain won the bullfighting world cup?

Never!!

Why?

Because you are the only ones who consider murdering cows to be a sport

 

[Annierak]

When was the last time spain won the bullfighting world cup?

Never!!

Why?

Because you are the only ones who consider murdering cows to be a sport

I was gonna mention bullfighting! The murdering bastards!

 

[Annierak]

Paula Radcliffe. My reasons? She pisses in the street. Yeh ok she can run but who cares? It's just running

 

[isitme]

I was gonna mention bullfighting! The murdering bastards!

We murder cows, but generally we just electrocute them to eat tho, rather than dressing up as a ponce and prancing about for two hours while you mates stick spears in it

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Joe Bugner

 

[isitme]

Micky Quinn

 

[Lord Camomile]

We murder cows, but generally we just electrocute them to eat tho, rather than dressing up as a ponce and prancing about for two hours while you mates stick spears in it

My dad has an interest in bullfighting (I hesitate to use the word 'fan' as I don't know just how deep his interest lies); when we went to Spain a few years back he took my brother and I to a fight.

It was a very odd experience. I must admit I was impressed by the skill of the matadors, and unfortunately you make anything into a contest and I'll get interested, but a lot of it certainly didn't sit right with me.

My dad never accepted the argument that it wasn't an unfair fight, saying that it was really just the matador and the bull and the other blokes were 'equalisers'

To be fair, the youngest of the three matadors I saw did actually take on one bull fresh out of the gate, without any of the stabbing, etc, which was quite impressive, but only for one pass after which he let the others got about their equalising.

Apologies for the derail

 

[Annierak]

Fatima Whitbread

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Any tennis player in the past two decades. I'm bored of Wimbledon hopefuls who never actually win the bloody final. For christs sake, Wimbledon is in this country, it's on grass, we have inclement weather, you should be used to the f'ing conditions. What's wrong with you?!?!?!?

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Johnny Herbert

 

[JTG]

Most of the people nominated seem to have been world/olympic champions at some stage

fucking odd definition of mediocre

 

[Matt S]

Well it's a bit of a silly question, really - because anyone who is really mediocre won't have been heard of in the first place.

Perhaps the question should be 'world class British sportspeople who we nonetheless dislike'....

Matt

 

[isitme]

Well for example, even though Tim Henman did have a pretty good career, he is still mediocore because he has such a crap celebration, he is crap at commentating, you knew he was never going to win Wimbeldon cos he wasn't a proper tennis player, and his fans were all Daily Mail readers who shout "Come on Tim!" at the telly, and he probably shagged Sue Barker

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Audley Harrison

 

[alsoknownas]

Daley Thompson

He won two olympic gold medals! (might have won a third if injury hadn't struck). He set a world record that stood for eight years! He had a larger-than-life personality to go with his world-beating athletic ability.
Mediocre? There's an argument to be made for him as Britain's greatest ever athelete.

 

[isitme]

Graham Gooch

A good start would be to list everyone associated with A Question of Sport

 

[stavros]

Greg Rusedski should get a mention, because he became British just to enhance his mediocrity.

To quote from Fist of Fun;
"Comedy duo Richard Herring and Stewart Lee are surely the most mediocre comedians of their generation, apart from Punt and Dennis, but the very fact that they're not even the most mediocre makes them even more mediocre and thus the most mediocre after all and so on to infinity."

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well it's a bit of a silly question, really - because anyone who is really mediocre won't have been heard of in the first place.

Perhaps the question should be 'world class British sportspeople who we nonetheless dislike'....

Matt

Yup, my thoughts too, unless the OP meant mediocre as in uninteresting to watch or converse with.......

 

[Annierak]

Bill Beaumont. Just because he's an ugly fuck

 

[Maggot]

Well it's a bit of a silly question, really - because anyone who is really mediocre won't have been heard of in the first place.

Perhaps the question should be 'world class British sportspeople who we nonetheless dislike'....

Matt

You've misread the thread title. It says 'Most Medico British Sportsperson Ever' which means the one with the most medical knowlege such as Dr WG Grace.

 

[isitme]

Carlton Palmer

 

[the button]

Has anyone said Tim Henman yet?

Or Michael Atherton.

 

[the button]

jenson button

 

[isitme]

 

[the button]

Will Carling

Come on, he got to shag Princess Diana. And who can say that, apart from loads of other people?

 

[isitme]

Come on, he got to shag Princess Diana. And who can say that, apart from loads of other people?

That was weird how she became such a hero for a bit for divorcing Charles

"Oh, it was hell, the Queen never liked me, I did shag lots of other men while I was married to her son, but she was a right bitch about it"

 

[the button]

"Oh, it was hell, the Queen never liked me, I did shag lots of other men while I was married to her son, but she was a right bitch about it"

Yeah, but if you say that fluttering your eyelashes while looking out from under your fringe, it's utterly convincing.

The Queen of All Our Hearts.

 

[isitme]

"Last night was my birthday and my husband said he was going to treat me like a princess. True to his word he got pissed and then drove into a tunnel at 125mph with me in the back"