Who is your hero? Do you have one?

[Jonno]

Someone asked me this and I couldn't give them a decent answer.
Plenty of people I admire but couldn't truly say anyone has heroic status for me. Except Reinelt of course.

What about you lot?

 

[BobbySmith]

in Life My Mum
In Sport Imran Khan
Albion Bobby Smith

 

[Meade's Ball]

I think a hero is best described as someone you might bump into and be suddenly and immediately awestruck by witnessing and nearing. Ok that doesn't apply to the dead as bumping into them, unless you believe in an afterlife and expect such a tryst, should be impossible or sick. But in the real world now if i found myself in the same record shop as Chuck D i would be dumbstruck and simply have no words for him. I'd be too terrified for him to hear my stupid words and doubt i'd be able to muster a servile bow other than in faint mode. And white 80s hiphop fans should never faint.
I strongly doubt i'd see an unguarded Aung San Suu Kyi in Rounders, but i reckon if i saw her i'd have to put my hands together and praise a fantasy god or two.

 

[fire&skill]

My brothers

 

[salty seagull]

Glenn Murray

 

[lizard]

Steve Gritt

 

[Binney on acid]

My dad. Apart from that, Jackson Browne.

 

[Icy Gull]

Neil Young

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Gandhi - Steven Segal - Robert Crumb

2 truths 1 lie

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Hunter S Thompson

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Hunter S Thompson

Are you condoning suicide! The man was always true to his word. And his request to fire his ashes out of a cannon was a great way to sign out.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Are you condoning suicide! The man was always true to his word. And his request to fire his ashes out of a cannon was a great way to sign out.

Suicide worked for HST, and for his hero Hemingway

For anybody who hasn't read it, I'd heartily recommend The Great Shark Hunt as the finest anthology of American journalism ever written.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

1066gull
Russell Grant
Christopher Biggins
Patrick Swayze
Boris Johnson
Your mum

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Ali
Best
Mandela

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

Ardal O Hanlon - he's My Hero

 

[Albalbion]

Dave Grohl! Legend :guitar:

 

[Tom Bombadil]

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Boring,but alway like James Kirtley,Sussex lad.

 

[Langley]

Lt/Col Paddy Mayne, SAS founder member, 1941 to 1946, wasnt awarded a VC, because there was no Officer to witness his WW2 exploits, a great man, sadly killed in a car crash in the early 50s.

Then there is Steve Foster, Brighton Legend.

And my all time favourite JIMMY LANGLEY

 

[KneeOn]

My best friend who sits at the Albion with me.

Anyone who has met him wouldn't realize half of what he's been through in his life, and how he's carried on.

At each setback those who know him say "if some one can deal with this kind of thing..."