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redfiona99Judging from the Smackdown results, Benoit is the water-carrier.
And before I get angry replies, I think I'd better explain. It's meant to be a compliament. 'The Water Carrier' was the nickname of one of my favourite football players ever, Didier Deschamps. Whether it was originally an insult or not is lost in the mists of time, and the unintelligability of Eric Cantona, but it was taken up as a name since it described his role perfectly because while he was probably one of the less brilliant players on the French team, he was also the one that held everyone else together as a unit.
So what does this have to do with Benoit, since he is very, very good in any comparison? Well, Deschamps was also a bit of an unsung hero. He was, and I believe still is, the only player since Beckenbauer to have won every single thing possible (FYI being put in the same bracket as Beckenbauer is a sign of greatness in and of itself). So the comparison is that you could always tell whether someone actually knew anything about football by their opinion of Deschamps (unless they're Liverpool fans who hate him en masse) same way with Benoit.
He'll never be a Rock, an Austin or a Hogan, he'll be an unsung hero, but the industry needs people like that, whose name denotes a touch of class, someone who will make their opponent look like a million dollars. 'Cause without 'em things fall apart.
And before I get angry replies, I think I'd better explain. It's meant to be a compliament. 'The Water Carrier' was the nickname of one of my favourite football players ever, Didier Deschamps. Whether it was originally an insult or not is lost in the mists of time, and the unintelligability of Eric Cantona, but it was taken up as a name since it described his role perfectly because while he was probably one of the less brilliant players on the French team, he was also the one that held everyone else together as a unit.
So what does this have to do with Benoit, since he is very, very good in any comparison? Well, Deschamps was also a bit of an unsung hero. He was, and I believe still is, the only player since Beckenbauer to have won every single thing possible (FYI being put in the same bracket as Beckenbauer is a sign of greatness in and of itself). So the comparison is that you could always tell whether someone actually knew anything about football by their opinion of Deschamps (unless they're Liverpool fans who hate him en masse) same way with Benoit.
He'll never be a Rock, an Austin or a Hogan, he'll be an unsung hero, but the industry needs people like that, whose name denotes a touch of class, someone who will make their opponent look like a million dollars. 'Cause without 'em things fall apart.
