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Bespectacled Sports Stars
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Someone has already said Ed Moses, so, Dave Whitcombe.0
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Remembered this football card from when I was a kid as it was so unusual to see a footballer wearing glasses. This is Rinus Israel from the Feyenoord European Cup Final team of 1970. Just checked the details and they beat Celtic 2-1 - Israel was both the captain and scorer of their first goal. Found a picture of the two teams coming out of the tunnel before the game and he's definitely not wearing glasses for the match!
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All the SKY 2018 pro cycling team wore glasses.
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Nigel Short0
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George Best spent too much time holding glasses0
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Eddie the Eagle Edwards0
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Probably spent more time drinking from the furry cup.thai malaysia addick said:George Best spent too much time holding glasses1 -
going back a while .. two American tennis stars, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, also B J King .. all of the above wore glasses sometimes, perhaps they all graduated to contact lenses, like Boycott2
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Harry Potter. Quaddditch seaker.
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Mr McGoo0
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The famous 'Battle of the Sexes' was a decidedly specky affair.Lincsaddick said:going back a while .. two American tennis stars, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, also B J King .. all of the above wore glasses sometimes, perhaps they all graduated to contact lenses, like Boycott
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^^^^ Oi Stig .. 'specky' .. be very afraid .. the equality lingo/discrimination brigade are coming for you ((:>)1
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And then there’s those that wear contact lenses...
Losing one while we played Bradford in an evening match at Selhurst, holding up play for ages while everybody looked for it and having to go off because he didn’t have a spare pair is one of those things that always comes to
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Navratilova.0
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good one .. forgot the Czech Robot ((:>)North Lower Neil said:Navratilova.
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Should probably offer some to Joel Wilson too.guinnessaddick said:1 -
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Geoff Paish (1950’s English tennis player). Before my time but remember him from my Eagle Book of Sport as as kid).1
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Two more cricketers...
Eddie Barlow (South African all rounder)
Hirwani (India)2 -
mention of Barlow reminded me of another SA cricketer from that era .. I thought he was a pace bowler but off spinner Harry Bromfield played a few tests in the 60s, but does he qualify as a star ? ..Darty Valiant said:Two more cricketers...
Eddie Barlow (South African all rounder)
Hirwani (India)
anyway he wore/wears ? glasses (he's now 87) .. this is from cricinfo ..
QUOTE .. Having the ability of keeping one end up with his accuracy, he bowled a marathon spell of 57 overs taking 5 for 88 out of an England total of 442 in the third Test in Cape Town. His only Test abroad was at Lord's against England after which he was left out of the team for the young Athol McKinnon. UNQUOTE .. 57 overs on the trot and so economically .. Boycott was in that England team !! ((:>)
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Cheers for the advice Lincs, but I think that I'm safe on that one in the same way that NWA and Queer Nation are in their respective fields.Lincsaddick said:^^^^ Oi Stig .. 'specky' .. be very afraid .. the equality lingo/discrimination brigade are coming for you ((:>)1 -
Wasn't there a speccy who played for melchester rovers?0
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Kevin 'Mighty' Mouselolwray said:Wasn't there a speccy who played for melchester rovers?
Although he never played for Melchester Rovers.
He played in the Scottish Premier up front with 'Hotshot' Hamish Balfour for Princess Park.
He could move abit for a fat bloke.
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Peter Roebuck was another cricketer with glasses...1
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Bill Bowes was back up to Larwood and Voce on the 1932-33 'Bodyline' tour to Australia.1
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Laurent Fignon
Laurent Fignon was a French professional racing cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and the Giro d'Italia in 1989.
He was runner-up in the 1989 Tour de France, eight seconds short of the time of winner Greg LeMond- the closest margin to decide the Tour in its history.
Fignon leading Greg LeMond in the 11th stage of the TdF in 1989Photo: AFP/GETTY3
