Great Sporting Achievements
Created | Updated Jun 17, 2003
He also aptly illustrates the tabloid's obsession with alliteration which presumably saved him from becoming Eddie the Vulture or spread eagle which would seem to have been more appropriate to me. In fact, come to think of it he could have become a front page spread eagle.
If success is newsworthy then even inglorious British failure is more so. The press not famed for its generosity of spirit has conjured a career in minor celebrity for this and I'm sure many other unlikely heros.
Good on them. There's many an orthopaedic surgeon who'll raise a glass to their contribution in medical fees alone. See Evil Kineval for details