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Overrated sportspeople

I'm just going to have a bit of fun with the blogs for now- at least I hope so. I'll try to avoid the need to think too deeply or give myself the task of coming up with anything definitive. This is not "The Definitive List of the Most Overrated Sportspeople of a Set Era in a Set Place with Set Definitions Thereof", it's just some sportspeople who've, at some point, for a crucial moment or for a whole career, by one person with a chequebook who ought to have known better or by the whole sporting world, been vastly overrated. I think I've spent too much of my life trying to persuade people that Stephen Gerrard is overrated, so I'll give him a break ... except I've just mentioned him, oh well. This can't really be anything but subjective - no doubt some other fool's list would have David Beckham, Ian Bell, Andy Murray, Ryan Giggs, Bradley Wiggins, Muhammad Ali, Amir Khan, Joe Calzaghe, Andrew Flintoff, Jonny Wilkinson, all sportspeople I lo