Aren't sportspeople supposed to be examples to our kids?

[Neil]

And truth be told, I only tend to remember the comments that irritated me, as I knew full well the idolising of sports personalities had been going on long before he tried to make a political gesture out of it, for it came across as a new labour idea.

Well my recollection is different - albeit I wasn't really paying that much attention to it.

But really wasn't he just trying to be trendy by association, by hob-nobbing with contemporary randoms, to boost his connection with a slightly more youthful demographic than politicians normally appeal to?

 

[highlandsflyer]

Whatever the reasons, the results remain the same.

My childhood hero was The Greatest, Ali.

No one who has ever put an angry foot forward can tell me there is no purpose for having icons or heroes.

I have worked around the world and studied my ass off and learned other cultures.

We are all one.

 

[Neil]

Whatever the reasons, the results remain the same.

My childhood hero was The Greatest, Ali.

He was one of my childhood heroes, too.

Still think he was an exceptionally clever boxer, even if some of the boxing fraternity don't always appreciate him - he took on and overcame boxers that practically everybody else thought would completely destroy him.

All that said, I still can't reconcile how he treated Frazier, though - hype or no hype, mind games or otherwise. That was a poor episode for him.