Yes, it’s Friday again, at last! So, time for the photography and performance thread. This week, let’s see some sporting renegades, rebels and revolutionaries.

For example;

Gilles Villeneuve

Mac

Dick Fosbury

A footballing genius.

Kevin Peterson and the reverse sweep for six: “Oh my!”

“Ze see gulls follow ze trawler….”

Asked on BBC’s Football Focus what the highlight of his career was, he responded:

‘When I did the kung fu kick on the hooligan, because these kind of people don’t have to be at the game.

‘I think maybe it’s like a dream for some, you know sometimes to kick these kind of people.

‘So I did it for them. So they are happy. It’s a kind of freedom for them.

‘So I speak about that because maybe they felt it. Because they felt something special physically. Maybe it was a different feeling.

‘It’s a great feeling, but different.’

Earl Denman, who sniggered in the face of convention and took on Everest by himself (with Tenzing) in 1947. What a guy.

And another epic fail. A guy who wasn’t afraid to do things a little differently. In this case, slower:

Eric Moussambani

Graeme Obree

Swashbucklin’ in St Andrews.

Awesome start, folks!

How about a little bit of Missy;

Koiki Mabo

Iron Mike, the Reservoir Dogs moment:

Nick Bubb, long time Mini Transat and Class 40 sailor..

Single minded heavan..

A Group of Rebels.. The Team New Zealand Americas Cup squad.

I nominate this fella too, you’ll know him, he visits here occasionally..
Hope he doesn’t mind..

Greame Fuller.. Without him Transition wouldn’t be here, windsurfing in this country would barely exsist, DeKine wouldn’t be here either… I could go on.. and.. and he has an awful lot to say and has on occasion been banned from this site…

Everything he says is awful and has on occasion been banned from this site…

FTFY

Asked on BBC’s Football Focus what the highlight of his career was, he responded:

‘When I did the kung fu kick on the hooligan, because these kind of people don’t have to be at the game.

‘I think maybe it’s like a dream for some, you know sometimes to kick these kind of people.

‘So I did it for them. So they are happy. It’s a kind of freedom for them.

‘So I speak about that because maybe they felt it. Because they felt something special physically. Maybe it was a different feeling.

‘It’s a great feeling, but different.’

I believe he’s now in negotiations with ScotRail.

Willie Anderson stands up to the Kiwis

In front of a 50,000 capacity crowd as Shelford led the chorus, Anderson’s men in green linked arms and began to shuffle forward into the mass of black jerseys.

Shelford and Anderson smelt each other’s breath as the crescendo of the crowd rose expecting fireworks and a bit of argy-bargy before the game even started.

Daley Thompson

Who I think, like a fine wine, has improved with age.

Swiss extreme mountaineer and solo climber Ueli Steck

Basil D’Oliveira RIP
Not the revolutionary himself, but a revolution went on around him.

In trouble again this week

Made MotoGP exciting again.

Earl Denman, who sniggered in the face of convention and took on Everest by himself (with Tenzing) in 1947

Erm….
Why does it seem* to be that the sherpas always end up in brackets if mentioned at all?

Thanks for that epicyclo, just wiki’ed mabo.

*to me, a none climber

Why does it seem* to be that the sherpas always end up in brackets if mentioned at all?

*to me, a none climber

I agree.

I included Denham because he was a renegade, not a good climber – illegally climbing on Everest, dodging Tibetan soldiers etc, his ‘solo’ climb ended in abject failure. Tenzing was pretty embarrassed about the whole thing.

Love the pic of D’Olivera!

How about a little big of Glen Plake?

The Go-Show.

The original ‘Win or Crash’ man

Kevin Schwantz

And I think this guy is a revolutionary

For being the most un-footballerish footballer ever. As well as being one of the best. we were sat at the next table to him at lunch yesterday. Which 5 star, expensive venue was this? Nandos in Oldham 😀

No contest on either front. The original and the best

Gotta go big. Life’s too short not to go big.

Josh Bender

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3lA0VGCQo[/video]

Guess Who??

The mercurial Michou. What a talent.

slainte 😀 rob

slainte 😀 rob

slainte ➡ rob