Oh, I don’t get you wrong.
We’re all friends here.
I guess what I was reacting to is the modern insistence in sports to claim so and so is the greatest. Like Roger Federer, when Sampras hasn’t even been retired ten years. And as if Borg and Laver didn’t exist.
People’s cultural memory is getting smaller ironically as the ability to gain it gets bigger. We see it in the lists of the ten best albums, books or films of all time, which will be a mix of true greats and a film or artist that’s overly fashionable at the time. Robbie Williams first album in the top 10 British albums of all time a few years ago, or Star wars in the top ten films.