I’d Pay money to see you explain the Rooney example to schoolchildren. 😀

Hansie Cronje.

That golf chap from america
Bill Clinton/Monica ????
John Major/Edwena Curry
Gordon Brown
Baroness Warsi
John ???? and the nurse (drugs)

Richard Nixon – from bringing the Vietnam war to an end to being impeached

Lenin – not sure the Stalin-era purges or the Stasi are what he had in mind.

Asil Nadir – British business hero to convicted fraudster

Enoch Powell – although not really one for assembly.

John Daly (golf).

I like the Richard Nixon reference as well. A few more…..

Vladimir Lenin

Lord Kitchener (from K of K to a recruiting poster for mass killing)

Kyle Strait

Marvin Gaye

Hermann Goering (dashing WWI war hero becomes obese, drug-fuelled anti semitic psychopath).

Sean Connery when he made a comeback as Bond after George Lazenby in ‘Never Say Never Again’

Elvis Presley

A bit of a mix of seriousness there, but I think they all fit the bill.

Oh and I’ll throw in David Lloyd George as well.

Consensus-forming war leader embroiled in all sorts of stuff.

Have a bit of dig around Maundy Gregory, Victor Grayson and the sale of peerages – you’ll see some things never change.

the US ice skater who “had nothing to do with” the attack on one of her rivals ?

Gu Kailai (Chinese politician that murdered her business partner)
Winnie Mandela

The boxer Prince Naseem Hamed though I concede, as someone pointed out above, he was a boxer and not really a ‘hero’.

Strange how most answers to the question (initially) seem to be sports ‘stars’, interesting.

Benny from Crossroads?

Benny from Crossroads?

Ooohh, Miss Dianne….

– Serena Williams when she went batshit and threatened to strangle the line judge.
– Whitney Houston.
– Tonya Harding.
– Mike Tyson.
– Marco Pantani 🙁
– Every Asian female president/prime minister who ever existed.

There was a brilliant industrial chemist by the name of Midgeley who was feted in his day for his ground-breaking discoveries. Two that were deemed to be the ‘best’ were tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) in petrol and CFCs. He couldn’t have foreseen the CFC one (although the lead issue might have raised some concerns at the time).

Anthony Eden.

OJ Simpson.

Michael Schumacher.

David Icke

Sorted:

Modern heroes = celebrity – Warhol: famous for 15 mins blah, blah, blah – John Terry, Lance, Glitter – corrupted by ££, fame, power.

True heroes = sacrifice – ‘The Few’, B of Britain, Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi etc (explaining why Olympic athletes are seen as more heroic – perception that they’re amatuers?)

We can all be heroes (for 15 mins) – just takes a bit of sacrifice.

Thanks

How about Harold Shipman?

How about Harold Shipman?

Why was he a hero?

Services to blatant trolling?