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 love who I've seen described, in fact several times in each case, as overrated. Look, trust me, those ones, those ones above, those are the ones that aren't overrated - in fact they're the ones who end up curiously underrated. "Rated" - such a nebulous term anyway. When every single journalist throughout his career described Paul Scholes as "underrated" surely they must have wondered who exactly was underrating him ... apart from England managers ...

So anyway, perhaps you'll agree with this lot, and perhaps you'll come up with a few good ones of your own. Remember, there are lots of different ways of being overrated.

-Andy Carroll - it's not like anyone's really rated him, apart from one football club, on one fateful day...
-Virat Kohli
-Lance Armstrong
-Anna Kournikova
-Steve Harmison
-Adrien Broner
-Roy Keane
-Freddy Adu
-Nigel Mansell
-Quade Cooper
-Mario Balotelli
-Tony Romo
-Frederic Michalak
-Robinho
-Mark Waugh
-Denilson
-Fred Couples
-Lolo Jones
-Sergio Busquets
-WG Grace

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