Tigers, Champions and Roar- Fanfiction17

When Tiger Woods came onto the scene and nobody had ever witnessed his likes before the authorities tried to keep golf competitive by “Tiger-proofing” courses.

Woods was winning so big and so often that many famous courses were lengthened in the vain hope that Woods’ vicious power would be somehow neutralised.

Woods was dominating to such an extent that they altered the very terrain he was playing on just so other competitors might have a shot at anything other than second place.

The laws of the game cannot be altered simply because one player or another is simply too good for the rest. There is no way to handicap the best because the rest aren’t of their standard.

It means that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the only two Tigers in town playing against prey. They have between them been so good for so long that it is almost impossible to keep the achievements of those who have gone before them or come along during their respective careers in perspective. 

Ronaldo and Messi have made us reassess the definition of what a great player is and what a great player does.

There is a natural tendency on the part of listeners to rank the music of their youth as the best. The same happens with footballers.

Then something seriously disorientating happened. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi came of age. They were objectively better than any player who’d gone before.

They have over the course of a decade rendered redundant all prior individual footballing achievement. 

But what if these tigers roared out their silenced selves? Do they dislike each other? Will we ever see a one one faceoff of these champions? Imagine!