A Sporting Legend?

[dronskisaint]

Jessica Ennis would get my vote for being cutest. Giggs is/has been a good player for Stretford but even their fans (all over London) wouldn't dub him a legend in the same breath as Law & Best. I don't include Charlton because the tw*t predicted 6-0 to U****ed in the pre match run up in '76...that's MY prejudice & it's not ever going to be against a Saints player.

 

MLT is a Saints legend as is Lawrie, Legless, Channon, Paine, Franny, King Ron plus many slightly lesser gods too many to mention.

 

They'll never be less so because one person takes a very individual perceived morality..Charlton was banned from receiving tickets by the FA or League for selling them to put cash in his pocket .....who gives a sh*t? Not me...he played for a lesser club! :-)

[Dark Munster]

 

Channon is a true Sainst legend and one that transcends football because of his subsequent achievements. MLT cannot hold a candle to the acheivements of Giggs and although he competed in a major league in never was tested at an international or european club level and can only ever be classed as a local hero and perhaps a maverick/flawed genius in the vein of a Best, Worthington or Bowles type character.

 

 

 

MLT slagged off your lord and master Lowe: ergo, he's not a legend.

I think you may need to reconsider Channon's legendary status:

 

MICK CHANNON has blamed chairman Rupert Lowe for Southampton's huge turnover in managers following Strachan's decision to quit.

"Every time we get a manager who looks like moving the club on we lose him. As a supporter of the club I have to ask Rupert Lowe why."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20040118/ai_n9716183/

 

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article2393057.ece

[Nineteen Canteen]

MLT slagged off your lord and master Lowe: ergo, he's not a legend.

I think you may need to reconsider Channon's legendary status:

 

MICK CHANNON has blamed chairman Rupert Lowe for Southampton's huge turnover in managers following Strachan's decision to quit.

"Every time we get a manager who looks like moving the club on we lose him. As a supporter of the club I have to ask Rupert Lowe why."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20040118/ai_n9716183/

 

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article2393057.ece

 

IMO Mick Channon is the only true sporting legend we have had the pleasure to support and one who has reached far beyond the realms of Southampton. He qualifies on all levels with regards to playing at the highest levels, personality and humility and achieving something in racing that may not be equalled for years to come. Everyone else is purely a local hero.

[Big John]

You'd have to have a self confessed history of mental illness not to believe MLT was anything other than a legend at SFC.

 

 

That's a teensy bit personal isn't it? Is there really any need?

[St Landrew]

IMO Mick Channon is the only true sporting legend we have had the pleasure to support and one who has reached far beyond the realms of Southampton. He qualifies on all levels with regards to playing at the highest levels, personality and humility and achieving something in racing that may not be equalled for years to come. Everyone else is purely a local hero.

 

Think you missed out on Terry Paine and Ron Davies. But then again, I don't expect fans to appreciate people who they haven't seen. But I expect people to read what others have said and perhaps wonder why everone might make such a noise about them. Terry and Ron can back up the hero worship with proper appreciation from their peers and opposition managers. After all, Terry was a member of the 1966 World Cup winning squad, and Ron was the best CF in Europe according to Matt Busby. Now, is that something you can use as a yardstick..?

 

And as for MLT, many of his peers, and those from opposition teams thought he was utterly brilliant. For example, I remember a glowing tribute made by Gary Mabbut, of Spurs; and Barry Horne said that to be thanked by a footballing genius [for running those extra yards for MLT] was the best thing that ever happened to him. No less than Alan Shearer thought MLT the most skillful he had ever seen with the ball at his feet. That's some accolade. Just because the powers that be, didn't have the nounce to pick MLT for England on a regular basis, [and instead chose a worker in Darren Anderton] and so ensure his greatness, there have been plenty who knew he was a legend. Who else, for instance, would have had such a following, that a whole groundswell of fans from other clubs wanted him playing for England. The call was so loud that the Fantasy Football League programme took up the shout, and eventually had him on the show in sketches, where he was portrayed as a footballing god.

 

Local hero only..? I think not.

Edited 14 December, 2009 by St Landrew

[Robsk II]

I can't see how anyone can deny MLT legend status at SFC, regardless of generations. Performances, memories, individual 'roy of the rovers' moments and statistics all back that up.

 

Legend is hard to define, and subjective at best - but for me, it's if the fans remember them. More or less as simple as that. That's the only true test. Oh, although despite my amusement at St Will (generally and in his declining mental well-being), I have to say the last month has concreted Tiger Woods as a legend in my eyes. Good boy.