| Sport is one of my life's great passions. There is nothing like
it. I haven't ever found drama in quite the same way. When one is watching
sport live, and one doesn't know the outcome of the event, it is more tense
than any play, more exciting than almost anything else. I do not watch
all sports. The four main listed ones are the ones that really fire my
passion, although in hospital in February 2003, I could not be torn away
from the Cricket world cup and in October 2003, the Rugby world cup held
the same fascination. I watched the Baseball world series, Winter Olympic
games and if nothing else is on TV, I'll usually end up watching a minority
interest sport. Much as I would love to include video clips and details
of all the achievements listed on the following pages of statistics, but
the internet just doesn't quite allow that currently. Neither do I possess
video clips of Wanderers winning goal in the 1872 FA cup final or Spencer
Gore winning the Wimbledon final five years later. However, achievements
such as winning these major events should never be forgotten and thanks
to the internet, information detailing these successes is preserved.
The statistics pages are simply for fun comparisons. Many words have
been written about whether, for example Michael Schumacher is better than
Juan Manuel Fangio driving very different cars, 50 years previously. It
actually doesn't really matter. Do not take the statistics too seriously.
Just because Frank Hadow only appears as a Wimbledon winner once, does
not make him a lesser tennis player than Joshua Pim who won it twice. Unless
you know differently of course. |
