Name your quartet of sporting greatness.

[Stat Brother]

Crujiff, Zidane, Best & Giggs.

I love great midfielders!

aaarrrrgggghhhhhhhh!

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Tomba & Klammer aren't the same era?

Damn you're right, Klammer retired in February '85 and Tomba made his debut the following December.

Ok then, Permin Zurbriggen, Marc Giradelli, Ingmar Stenmark, Franz Klammer.

 

[Mackenzie]

errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Begging the question of the thread.

"The same sport, the same discipline therein, (no 3 batsmen and a bowler), at the same time. "

Sorry I didn't read the question correctly....Marshall, Holding, Bishop and Garner.

Not as good at gymnastics as Comaneci or swimming as Spitz but those boys could bowl a bit.

 

[Stat Brother]

I'm off to the pub.

Someone else can take over the reins of this, obviously challenging thread.

 

[Stat Brother]

Lev Yashin, Gordon Banks, Pat Jennings, Peter Shilton

I don't even know where to begin here.

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

aaarrrrgggghhhhhhhh!

Is that like a sex wee aaarrrrgggghhhhhhhh?

Got it now! not to self, READ THE DAMN QUESTION!

 

[Bognor Bystander]

The same sport, the same discipline therein, at the same time... Football, Goalkeepers , Late 60's early 70's ?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

C.Ronaldo, Fat Ronaldo, Zidane, Messi

All were playing at the same time.

 

[Mackenzie]

I'm off to the pub.

Someone else can take over the reins of this, obviously challenging thread.

sorry I get what you want now......lets say I was talking about domestic West Indian cricket when I named my four bowlers.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Miguel Indurain, Lance Armstrong, Erik Zabel, Jan Ulrich.

Plus a big dose of EPO.

 

[The Large One]

Andrés Iniesta, Xavi, Cesc Fàbregas, David Silva - Spain's midfield from Euro 2008.

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

I don't even know where to begin here.

I don't understand your confusion here. Football, four goalkeepers, Yashin 1950-70, Banks 1955-77, Jennings 1963-86 and Shilton 1966-97. All overlap within one era Begin there?

 

[Stat Brother]

I don't understand your confusion here. Football, four goalkeepers, Yashin 1950-70, Banks 1955-77, Jennings 1963-86 and Shilton 1966-97. All overlap within one era Begin there?

Those four weren't simultaneously the greatest.

What about Jennings, Shilton, Zoff, Clemance? (Clem does seem a little 'light', but that more to do with my lack of knowledge)

 

[Stat Brother]

Miguel Indurain, Lance Armstrong, Erik Zabel, Jan Ulrich.

Plus a big dose of EPO.

Naturally I was trying to think of a cycling one.
Lance Pantani Ulrich ?
Or Zabel, Cipollini, ? ?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Five Live are currently running a retrospective of this:-

25 years since Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard locked horns at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas in their $26 million Super Fight, 5 live Boxing looks back at a truly great era in the ring. Mike Costello and Steve Bunce also remember some of the other great boxers of the time, including Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran and discuss some of the most explosive, contentious and memorable fights in the history of the sport

Begging the question of the thread.

The same sport, the same discipline therein, (no 3 batsmen and a bowler), at the same time.

Duran was the greatest lightweight of all time a decade earlier so different discipline and different times (unless you count all four winning titles at 4 or 5 different weights at different times over 20 years)

 

[Stat Brother]

Duran was the greatest lightweight of all time a decade earlier so different discipline and different times (unless you count all four winning titles at 4 or 5 different weights at different times over 20 years)

It was a very compelling show, I'm a bit gutted I missed the start, but well worth a catch up, on i-player.

They did mention Duran starting in light weight.
But the point is any one of those 4 would have reigned supreme, if the others weren't there.
To have 4 of the all time worlds greatest, all at the same time, in the same discipline, is quite something.

It seems only to be matched by cricket all rounders and F1 drivers.

 

[Billy Seagull]

Two lots for the golfers:

Jack Nicklaus
Arnold Palmer
Gary Player

Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Ernie Els

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Ivan Mauger
Peter Collins
Ole Olsen
Michael Lee

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Borg, McEnroe, Connors, Nastase. Tennis was brilliant in the late 70s/early 80s.

 

[METALMICKY]

Hawkins, Lehman, Mcleod, Loft - guess the link

Surely you meant Farrington, Tiltman, Neale and Hilton?