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No from me too.
Difficult to choose who is though. Sort of people I'm thinking:
Steve Redgrave
Alastair Cook
Daley Thompson
Chris Hoy
Lee Cattermole
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Paula Radcliffe (if we're allowed sports women too)
Steve Cram
Sebastian Coe
Nick Faldo
I'm sure I'll have missed other obvious contenders.
Tin hat on - he underachieved a bit.
And those saying the greatest British sportsman ever, have a word ffs 'one of' maybe aye
Wanted England to lose at football. Therefore I hate him. I hate him so much. He’s a disgrace to Britain.
I disagree about being the greatest British sportsman ever. The greatest British tennis player ever yes, but others are up there in the sportsman stakes
Redgrave
Wiggins
Botham
Moore
Bobby Charlton
Hendry
O’Sullivan
Taylor
Daley Thompson
Coe
Cooper
Piggott
Didn’t leave him out, I just gave up with the list. There are hundreds to consider, if not thousands as the greatest British sportsman/woman/horses for @ArkleCooper a interesting choice considering you left out Lennox Lewis
Didn’t leave him out, I just gave up with the list. There are hundreds to consider, if not thousands as the greatest British sportsman/woman/horses for @Arkle
Cartwright the horse, you missed out.Indeed, Red Rum, Shergar, Best Mate, Kauto Star, Denman etc.
Henry Cooper the list is endless
Your brother any good at tennis ?
I agree with the OP to be honest - I've followed tennis for over 45 years and most British tennis fans have waited their entire lives for this guy to come through, and most of us were aware of him from a very young age.
He did it from outside the established system which makes his achievements even more remarkable, and in an era where he was one of probably the most talented top 4 in the history of the game (although there are many people who believe that 2 of those 4 were not without assistance of a certain kind)
The comparisons with Perry are difficult to justify - Perry played in an era where it was a sport played in a few countries by a few people compared to the massive global sport that it is today
I honestly believe that he could have doubled or trebled the number of titles that he won if he had been born 10 years earlier or later