Do you have a hero? And if so, who?

[THE_Liam]

Got me thinking recently. I'm a big rugby league fan, and one of my favourite players is leaving the sport at the end of the season to play rugby union. I was talking about it with a mate in the pub and he said that the guy was his hero, the one person he looked up to more than anyone else, and the person he wanted to grow up to be as a kid. I've never really consciously had heroes, more people I admired, but we got talking about it and I named one...

So, do you have one? Doesn't have to be sporting, it can be anyone?

For me? Ellery Hanley, the former rugby league player. Played for Bradford, Wigan, Balmain, Wests, and then Leeds, which is where I remember him from, still remember my dad reading an article in the Yorkshire Evening Post to me and explaining that we'd signed in his opinion the best player ever to play the game, an opinion I now share. Watched him play for Leeds for 4 years until he went out to Oz to finish his career, the guy had super powers. And he's a Leeds born lad as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Hanley

I remember being at this game, he was long past his prime by this point but still just about the best player in the league...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgAIst7zj9k

Now you go.