Mo Farah's pad in London is AMAZING. Guy is loaded.

Oh Please wrote:

What is amazing about that place? Looks like ceramic tile floors, engineered hard wood where the pool table is, a very basic 3x4 shower. ... I'm sure being in London it is quite expensive, but the quality itself is not impressive from what I see.

+1. It seems to me that rojo is exaggerating quite a bit here. Sure, it's more than what most people can afford, but there is nothing amazing about it.

If you want to talk about amazing houses, go look at Aaron Spelling's former house:

Boxing is not on free tv so most people don't follow it anymore. Most people have heard of Tyson

Farah is more famous than Froome because he won Olympics 2012 and carried on winning big title for years all on nation freeview TV. More people know Wiggins than Froome because he had a lot more personality but he has disappeared a bit now.

Footballers are on average a lot more famous than athletes but its different for the very few at the top.

Beckham was more famous but none of the current best are anywhere near his level.

Farah won SPOTY (viewers vote) and the Jungle will put him back up there as loads of people watch that crap

no crap! He's a top end marathoner, most elite marathoners make 8-10MILLIION quid a year.

Who the hell are Ronne O'Sullivan and Phil Taylor?

Standard Setter wrote:

Who the hell are Ronne O'Sullivan and Phil Taylor?

What the hell is a search engine?

Londoner wrote:

I assume by British / London standards it is upmarket, but to describe the garden as "huge" is overselling it a bit from what one can see in the pictures.

The interior, no (that shower looks minging), but you're looking at a city with the 4th highest land values in the world, after Monaco, Hong Kong and New York.

There’s a very strong chance that this is a rental.

As an aside, (and without judgement in the least), I’ve always wondered if his son is a bit developmentally delayed or has some type of syndrome. Can anyone with some background comment on that?

For a point of reference, there is currently a 640sq ft apartment in Teddington listed for less than a 2,300sq ft ranch house in Texas, set on a 65 acre tract including a 10 stall stable.

When you judge the size of gardens etc, keep that in mind.

Standard Setter wrote:

Who the hell are Ronne O'Sullivan and Phil Taylor?

O'Sullivan is the greatest snooker player in history (snooker is a cue sport, like pool for people with IQ. It's popular everywhere now except the USA, especially China where hundreds of millions watch it). Won his first big tournament at 17 and just won the world championship for the 6th time at 43.

Took up running in his 30's after spending most of his prior life an alcohol.and drug binger. Quickly got down to sub 35 min for 10K and represented his county. All the while dominating snooker. Nickname is 'Rocket Ronnie' because he plays at about 3 times the speed of any other player.

Taylor is similar, but dominated his sport - darts even more, winning something like 20 world championships even though he didn't start playing until 25.

I think hs 10k PB is a bit slower though.

Mo is all show, the bank account is almost empty. The house is a rental. Selling cleaning supplies isn’t going to cover all this. Money in, money out.

prolly not true.

im a die hard soccer fan.

a few buddies of mine know mo but if i were to ask them what he runs etc they would not be able to tell.

in my book soccer is so much bigger in uk (than mo).

then come rugby and cricket.

for the international crowd, yes maybe he is more well known. but for my buddies down at the local pub pre-corona, mo is NOT a household name. Maybe in the Gunners quarters. But not where my boys are.

spade detector wrote:

You'd think he could afford a decent doorbell.

I salute you. He is a doper 100 percent, aint nobody gonna tell me otherwise.

Mo is probably quite poor.

Lewis Hamilton.

I think he is strange and boring and very tainted by Salazar.

Brits who dont follow the sport closely expect runners to love him, which we dont. "The Doorbell" or "ding dong" are our code words to check if the person talking about him knows him or not.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Boxing is not on free tv so most people don't follow it anymore. Most people have heard of Tyson

Farah is more famous than Froome because he won Olympics 2012 and carried on winning big title for years all on nation freeview TV. More people know Wiggins than Froome because he had a lot more personality but he has disappeared a bit now.

Footballers are on average a lot more famous than athletes but its different for the very few at the top.

Beckham was more famous but none of the current best are anywhere near his level.

Farah won SPOTY (viewers vote) and the Jungle will put him back up there as loads of people watch that crap

I think you've got to allow for the fact that Farah does 'your sport' so therefore you automatically view him as more famous than people who do other sports, because he's on yours and a lot of your associate's radars.

Are we really arguing whether more people know who Harry Kane is or Mo Farah? Lets be serious.

Maybe on a par with Ben Stokes? I dunno. Rory McIlroy? Don't fancy Mo there either.

Kane is probably on a level with Mo. O'Sullivan, Taylor are not. Ben Stokes, probably not. Stokes is in his pomp, but still probably not. But for the exception of the WCF last summer, cricket is never live on terrestrial TV. Stokes' heroics last year were mostly watched by cricket fans and not the wider British public.

The wider population watches the Olympics, the football World Cup and Wimbledon. Win something there and athletes become a household name. Maybe not quite so much with one Olympic gold in recent years since GB started putting a bit more funding into and winning a few more medals - but that's still true for athletics golds at the Games, and definitely multiple athletics gold medals.

If the England team won the Euros or the World Cup, they'd all be household names but as it never happens most people in the street know who Mo Farah is and less people know Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Johnny Wilkinson is Mo famous. Again because of a World Cup win. But only because he is the most famous from that England team.

A good place to start would be which athletes became a 'Sir' or a 'Dame'.

This is silly argument anyway.

Rojo, why are you surprised? World class sporting heroes are few and far between in the UK. Farah's a national celebrity, not just a track star.

rojo wrote:

I'm glad at least one track star is a big celebrity in their home land.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/im-a-celeb/6266735/inside-mo-farah-london-home-im-a-celebrity/

Brits, where would you rank Farah in terms of most visible athletes? Like the Premiere League guys way above him?

I get having medals and awards in public view if all of your social status and riches were gained from sport, but does Mo Farah really need a huge photo of himself looking focused in the living room? What a massive narcissist

Oh Please wrote:

What is amazing about that place? Looks like ceramic tile floors, engineered hard wood where the pool table is, a very basic 3x4 shower. ... I'm sure being in London it is quite expensive, but the quality itself is not impressive from what I see.

I agree