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Totally stunning. That's real sporting achievement right there. Smashing Evans by a minute and 43s within 40kms. At that level of cycling it's total world class.
Incredible time trialing. Watched it on Eurosport, wonderful stuff.
Brad is from Kilburn, the family are R's. How did he get to be a "gooner"?
He not a gooner. Knew him as a lad. He is qpr and has been to loftus road a few times, , but isnt massivly into football. Every time the lads were playing football he would be riding his bike around the cage, park etc. even from a young age, its all he ever wanted to do. his mum and step dad are all season ticket holders in s a road.
Nuts to that dreary monosyllabic charisma-free Sweaty fooker of yesterday..
This one goes out to Wiggo The QPR Kilburn Mod..Go On My Son!
'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
He not a gooner. Knew him as a lad. He is qpr and has been to loftus road a few times, , but isnt massivly into football. Every time the lads were playing football he would be riding his bike around the cage, park etc. even from a young age, its all he ever wanted to do. his mum and step dad are all season ticket holders in s a road.
Last interview I saw, with him, in a cycling mag, to my surprise he said, " I am a big Arsenal fan".
So from the man himself, and yes I know all the rest of the family are solid Rangers.
Fantastic stuff Bradley. Kudos from me for having the guts to say what he wanted to say.
I've been watching the Tour for years now; what a joy to have such a strong British contingent as opposed to usually nobody at all. Him and Cavanagh, quality.
Last interview I saw, with him, in a cycling mag, to my surprise he said, " I am a big Arsenal fan".
So from the man himself, and yes I know all the rest of the family are solid Rangers.
Knew the man. He isnt massivly into football, but has been to loftus road a few times. He is a qpr supporter and used to join in with the chanting when we used to meet up in the red lion with loads of other rangers lads on a satruday night. Sorry mate but I know he is qpr, spoke to him about them myself.
Dont know about hat. Havent read it. He never went to spurs that is for certain. I knew majority of his mates, to be fair there were not that many to know. He was not a very social person, only one lad he knew was an arsenal fan and he hardly ever went to football. but he would be in the red lion on a saturday night with a few qpr lads from same block as him and he would talk qpr, chant, ask about game etc, his whole family are qpr as well. His dad is australian and wasnt into football, that is who got him into riding in the first place.
I think his visits to Spurs were pre pub-going age if I recall, was a while ago when I read the book.....at least a year, maybe two, but it was the updated version to include his 4th in the TDF. Anyway, if he is Rangers and says in his book he's Arsenal then he's a liar and his book should be withdrawn. Absolute disgrace, shocking behaviour and deceitful. Or maybe he really is an Arsenal fan. Maybe none of this really matters anyway, does it?
Maybe it doesnt matter really. But I would love to read this autobiorgraphy kid running off to north london as a kid to watch football matches at spurs with his mates, then getting older and supporting the arsenal, going with a seperate set of lads. When I knew him, he was always on his own, alwaysd riding , never much intrerest in football unless his mum or step dad didnt go and he would take up the ticket and go to qpr, he never even played footy, he was quite shy and didnt seem to get involed much. Although ws a nice bloke, he wasnt doing what they were so people didnt realy bother wit him that much. He never or very rarely went off plot, and only rode his bike around the flats and the rec, where he used the bike track to race etc and was very good. The day he went to south kilburn to used the bike track there he got jacked and they stole the bike, after that he rarly bothered going many places, although used to see him most saturday morning as he would say he was going to ride to crystal palace for trials etc. Remember he wore a qpr compaq t shirt for ages when he was racing at the rec that he asked him mum to get for him. . As he got older used to see him in the pubs a bit, but as he got more into the racing he obviously focused on that. Good luck to him and respect for reaching the heights he has but in all them years I knew him never muchto do with arsenal or footy in general , would ask about us, talk about feredinand, gallen on the odd occasion and take his familys season ticket if they couldnt go. But wasnt that bothered.
Magnificent day in the mountains for Brad and Froome! Not for the first time this Summer has an Englishman broken the heart of an Aussie. Looking good!
And look at all these frogs doffing their chapeaus to King Brad:
'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
The boy done great today, whatever football team he likes. Has now worn yellow for more days than any other British rider.
Great stage today. I was able to watch all of it live and WIggins stayed calm throughout, although he must of thought WTF?! when Froomey went off on a charge with 2k-ish to go. That in itself seemed amazing as Froome looked spent a bit earlier on.
Do you guys have a preference with which channel you watch it on? I like ITV's pre and post analysis with Boardman & Imlach but prefer the live commentary of Eurosports Harmon & Sean Kelly, Harmon gets pretty excited about most things, Kelly's deadpan delivery levels it out though!
Great stage today. I was able to watch all of it live and WIggins stayed calm throughout, although he must of thought WTF?! when Froomey went off on a charge with 2k-ish to go. That in itself seemed amazing as Froome looked spent a bit earlier on.
Do you guys have a preference with which channel you watch it on? I like ITV's pre and post analysis with Boardman & Imlach but prefer the live commentary of Eurosports Harmon & Sean Kelly, Harmon gets pretty excited about most things, Kelly's deadpan delivery levels it out though!
Sean Kelly is an awful pundit, inarticulate and lacks clear diction - really shouldn't be on TV at all. Harmon is good but I have to choose Ligget and Sherwin just to avoid the nausiating Kelly drivel - being succesful at your sport does not necessarily make you a worthy pundit (as can be witnessed each week on Match of the Day). Roche, in contrast, is well worth listening too as are Boardman and Sherwin.
Wiggo and Froomedog both on the podium? After yesterday it shure looks like it.
On which channel - I like Harman but not kelly. Sherwin and Ligget go well together and have been ding for so long, that they know each other. i really like Gary Imlach, but hate the fact that the ITV highlights show only shows about 10mins of cycling in the hour.
Favourite theme from highlights show that first got me into The Tour in the 80's:
For me the A-Team were Phil Liggett,Paul Sherwen and Ned Boulting. Here's Phil getting a bit 'oo-er missus':
Wiggo Magic:
Is the No.2 stronger/better than the No.1?;
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'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
Liggett & Sherwin were once good - now they are just utter sh1te - constantly making mistakes and getting riders names wrong - prefer Eurosport any day - Kelly is extremely monotone but he does give some good insight.
Told ya Sky would have 2 on the podium in the orginal tdf thread!
I know people still remember the drug fuelled races of the 80s and 90s but Le Tour appears to be relatively clean, now. It's a massive test of endurance and what you see is 150 odd athletes who'd put the fitness of footballers to shame.
I think Wiggins will win it this year, unless he has a serious accident. Froome will win it in the future.
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