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Gary Winston Lineker, OBE (born 30 November 1960 in Leicester) is a former English international football striker who scored ten goals in two World Cups for the England national team and is currently a sports broadcaster for the BBC.
Since retiring from playing in 1994, Lineker has featured in several television commercials for Walkers Crisps.
Lineker's sense of positioning and tap-ins earned him a reputation as one of England's most prolific strikers of all-time, although this style of play sometimes provoked accusations that he was a "goal hanger" always looking to capitalize on the efforts of others. During his professional career, Lineker is noted for never having been cautioned or sent off by the referee. He studied the Spanish and Japanese languages, which allowed him to adjust better than most of his compatriots when playing for foreign clubs, and also to make a smooth transition into his role as a pundit and sports broadcaster.
Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well known by his nicknames "Beefy" and "Guy the Gorilla". While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of test cricket records, and still retains the highest number of wickets taken by any England bowler.
Bryan Robson OBE (born 11 January 1957) is an English former football manager and a former player. He is best known for playing in midfield for Manchester United, where he was the longest serving captain in club history. He is the former manager of Sheffield United after being relieved of his first team duties on 14 February. In March 2008, Robson returned to Manchester United as an ambassador for the club.
Robson began his playing career at West Bromwich Albion, before moving on to Manchester United, whom he captained to three FA Cups and a European Cup Winners' Cup. He also won two FA Premiership winners medals. Towards the end of his playing career he moved into management as player-manager with Middlesbrough. Robson had a good goal-scoring record, tackled and passed well and was also a good header of the ball. He represented England on 90 occasions, making him the sixth most capped player of all-time and has the eleventh highest goalscoring tally with 26. Robson captained his country 65 times; only Bobby Moore and Billy Wright have captained England on more occasions. Robson is also known by the nicknames 'Robbo' and 'Captain Marvel'.
Brian Charles Lara (born May 2, 1969) (nicknamed, "The Prince of Port-of-Spain", "The Prince of Trinidad" or simply "The Prince") is a retired record-breaking cricketer, and one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the game. He has topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds two of the most prestigious world records for batting in Tests: highest individual innings and the all-time leading run scorer. He also holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with a total of 501* for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994. Lara played his international career with the West Indies cricket team.
Petros “Pete” Sampras (born 12 August 1971) is a former World No. 1 American tennis player. During his 15-year career, he won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles in 52 appearances. Sampras finished as World No. 1 on the ATP rankings for six consecutive years, a record for the open era and tied for third all-time. Sampras won the singles title at Wimbledon seven times, a record shared with William Renshaw. He also won five singles titles at the US Open, an open era record shared with Jimmy Connors. Bud Collins has named Sampras as one of the top five men's tennis players of all-time, and TENNIS Magazine has named him the greatest player from 1965 through 2005. On July 17, 2007, Sampras was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Stephen Gordon Hendry, MBE (born January 13, 1969 in South Queensferry, Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional snooker player and seven-time World Champion. He spent a record eight consecutive years at no. 1 in the world rankings and was the youngest-ever snooker World Champion, at 21.
Hendry is one of the most successful players in the history of the sport, with his World Snooker Association official profile stating that he is "generally considered the greatest snooker player ever".
Philip Douglas Taylor (born August 13, 1960) is a 13 time world champion darts player. His nickname is The Power. His 13 World Championship titles and over 45 other major tournament wins makes him the most successful darts player of all-time.
Michael Edwards (born 5 December 1963), better known as Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, was the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping. He was not only the British National Ski-jumping Record holder, but also the World No 9 in Amateur Speed-skiing (106.8mph) and the Stunt Jumping World Record Holder (10 cars/6 buses).
Franklin Roy Bruno (born November 16, 1961) is an English former boxer whose career highlight was winning the WBC Heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests. Like Henry Cooper before him, Bruno has remained a popular celebrity with the British public since his ring career ended, and still appears regularly in pantomime.
Steve Davis, OBE, (born August 22, 1957, Plumstead, London) is an English professional snooker player. He has won more professional titles in the sport than any other player, including six world championships during the 1980s.
Davis' most successful spell came during the 1980s, when he was the snooker world number one for seven years and reached eight world finals; along the way, he recorded the first televised 147 break and became the sport's first millionaire. Such was Davis' dominance in the 1980s, a popular saying suggested that he was on television more often than the Prime Minister of the time.
Chris Ronald Waddle (born December 14, 1960) is a famous English footballer. Playing in midfield, his dazzling ball skills and untidy style are particularly memorable. Despite his 62 international caps, between 1985 and 1992, he was not particularly successful in English football or internationally in terms of trophies, achieving his greatest reward in France.
Born in Hepworth, near Gateshead, Waddle began his career as a part-timer at non-league Tow Law Town after being rejected at trials for Sunderland, Coventry and Newcastle. From working in a sausage factory he was taken up by Newcastle United in July 1980 for £1000. He did well at the club, scoring 46 goals in 169 appearances, and was picked for the England Under-21s but a desire for greater success took him to Tottenham Hotspur in July 1985 for just under £600,000.
Waddle played 173 games for Spurs and scored 42 goals as well as becoming a regular for the national side. In 1989 Olympic Marseilles paid £4.5 million for him, the third highest fee ever up to then, and in France Waddle truly flourished. In a team of stars he was one of the top players, during his time there the club were French champions three times (1990, 1991 and 1992). He missed a penalty in the 1990 World Cup semi-final against Germany.
Waddle returned to England in July 1992 in a £1.25 million move to Sheffield Wednesday, then managed by Trevor Francis. The club reached both domestic cup finals in the 1992-93 season and Waddle was voted PFA player of the year despite suffering a number of injuries. his legacy of injuries led to him being released by Wednesday in 1996 after just over 100 games and he was later picked up by Bradford in 1996 and then by Sunderland towards the end of that season. Following the relegation of Sunderland Waddle was player-manager of Burnley for the 1997-98 season but resigned (or was sacked) after the club only escaped relegation on the last day of the season.
He then joined the coaching staff at Wednesday and expanded his media work before deciding to start playing again. He joined non-league Worksop Town for the 2000-01 season and then on to Glapwell in August 2002.
