Premiership clubs, Formula 1, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney are regularly amongst your favourite sports searches. But there's more to the Sport Hotlist than the world's sporting icons and globally watched events. You will find news on the big sport stars but you'll also discover some bizarre and downright weird sporting events sure to get you searching.
He may be one of Britain’s most iconic sporting stars and the best footballer these Isles have produced since Gazza, but it appears Manchester United’s talismanic striker Wayne Rooney is definitely not a hit with the nation’s legions of female sport fans according to results of a new survey.The England striker has been voted the ugliest sports star of all time in a poll conducted by market research company Onepoll. The firm surveyed 4,000 female sports fans and Rooney, whose features have previously been compared to those of Shrek, took top spot after garnering 34 per cent of the vote.
But Rooney wasn’t the only Premiership star to feel wrath of the nation’s female sports fans. Lanky Liverpool striker Peter Crouch claimed 4th place while former England heroes Peter Beardsley and Paul Gascoigne also took spot in the Ugly Top 10.
Britain’s boxing stars also figured prominently on the chart. Junior-welterweight champion Ricky Hatton’s propensity for post-fight fry-ups counted against him while the trademark arrogance of former featherweight king Prince Naseem Hamed served to raise the hackles of female sports fans as the fighters were branded the 5th and 9th ugliest stars respectively. Clearly, a world championship belt and millions in the bank isn’t always enough.
Not even international sporting greats were exempt from being beaten with the survey’s ugly stick. The highest placed international star was toothy Brazilian maverick Ronaldinho in third position while three-time Wimbledon singles champ Boris Becker paid the price for his apparent absence of eyebrows as grabbed enough votes for 6th place.
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