Vintage Johnathan Thurston proves doubters wrong | Matt Cleary

23 April 2018 02:28
The veteran Cowboy’s displays suggest the greater group think that he has ‘gone one year too long’ is off the markAfter Jack Nicklaus finished tied for 33rd in the US Masters of 1980, pundits speculated that the great man’s time in the sun was over. He’d just turned 40. He was a famous multi-millionaire without sufficient “hunger”. A new breed of big-hitting buccaneers led by Greg Norman and that year’s Masters champion, Seve Ballesteros, was taking over. The scribes rubbed their goat-beards and scratched their sideburns, and typed these missives into their Olivetti Lettera 32 portable typewriters. And then they sat back and learned that they didn’t know what the hell they were talking about. Related: Eels lack it in the eyes as Parramatta's NRL season ends in April | Matt Cleary Continue readingreadfullarticle

Source: TheGuardian