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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Jun 7, 2006 5:55:15 GMT
The young scottish tennis player has come out to say that not only will he NOT be supporting England at the World Cup but he will actually be wearing a Paraguay shirt on saturday and cheering on our opponents!
Though i would not have expected him to be cheering our boys to the rafters, i would have expected him to maintain a more dignified public stance.
After all, come Wimbledon in a few short weeks, he will be expecting all of US to get behind HIM!!!
Well forget it, you miserable sweaty!!!
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Post by medibot on Jun 7, 2006 10:37:18 GMT
Now, understandable to be Scottish and support T&T seeing as they have a lot of Scottish based players and bloke called Scotland but going to effort of buying or even saying you'll get a Paraguay shirt is a little extreme... Really not as funny as the McDonalds sponsored England Mascot fot the final if they make it being a half Scottish half Russian kid who wants the Ukraine to win  Obviouslyr running the competiition in Glasgow was a little silly. |
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jun 7, 2006 15:00:15 GMT
Just you wait Sulty baby! If young Mr Murray gets to the second week of Wombledon, all will be forgiven and he'll be the next big ENGLISH tennis hope in the Currant Bun, thereby conveniently ignoring his heritage   Until he loses that is... |
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Post by medibot on Jun 7, 2006 22:19:31 GMT
You mean like that great Canadian loser Rusedski who looked suspiciously like that British lad with the big serve who won occasionally also called Rusedski?
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Post by ojiveojive on Jun 7, 2006 22:38:17 GMT
Andy Murray has a website - www.andymurray.com - unfortunately it's not up and running yet but when it is I will express my displeasure to the arrogant s h i t. His attitude also makes me not want Scottish league teams to progress any further than they usually do in European competitions, whereas in the past I've always wanted the underdogs to do well ISIHAC - No, he'll never be good enough to be English, we know how to lose with dignity ;D |
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Post by coops on Jun 7, 2006 23:50:42 GMT
Good on him I say, he's Scottish, he's speaking his mind, he doesn't want England to win....what's the problem?
Now, if you are a tennis fan you can make your own mind up whether you want to will young Murray on in Wimbledon, go down there and boo him if you like, it's all part of the game.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jun 8, 2006 10:18:24 GMT
ISIHAC - No, he'll never be good enough to be English, we know how to lose with dignity ;D We definitely know how to lose when it comes to tennis.  |
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Post by luvlydory on Jun 8, 2006 10:25:03 GMT
unfortunately it's not up and running yet but when it is I will express my displeasure to the arrogant s h i t. maybe he knows what people think about him, and that's why it's not ? |
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Post by pies on Jun 8, 2006 15:51:16 GMT
Who really cares what Murray thinks? I thought the original post was going to be about Tennis players in general, and their annual hogging of the media as they play their insignificant tournament in a sport 95% of people couldn't care less about for 50 weeks a year.
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Post by medibot on Jun 8, 2006 16:47:31 GMT
On campus there has been a breif flirtation with cricket, followed by football and the drawing of a chalk goal on the Arts A's wall ball style wall. I am waiting for the tennis to follow and leave abruptly upon Murray being knocked out.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 9, 2006 13:38:10 GMT
Who really cares what Murray thinks? I thought the original post was going to be about Tennis players in general, and their annual hogging of the media as they play their insignificant tournament in a sport 95% of people couldn't care less about for 50 weeks a year. I think you'll find that a lot more than 5% of the general population will be watching at least some of Wimbledon. I know you mean they don't care for the rest of the year, but why should the rest of the year matter if people are interested in this? Loads of people only watch football when the World Cup's on. Many people never watch athletics unless it's the Olympics or Commonwealth Games. They want to watch this particular tournament because it means something to them even if tennis doesn't usually. Just because you and your friends don't care, doesn't mean nobody else does. Just because football is more popular doesn't make tennis insignificant. |
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Post by medibot on Jun 10, 2006 3:31:51 GMT
Am remembering that argument for next time some tw*t takes the piss out of Korfball.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 11, 2006 12:35:04 GMT
Now come on, you and your minority sports (korfball, Welsh football, etc). A little gentle ribbing shouldn't bother you if you're confident in yourself young man. Your opinions are perfectly valid.
What I objected to was a) INCORRECT statements and b) saying that Wimbledon was "insignificant" when clearly to the majority of people it is not entirely so.
It's therefore not exactly the same argument at all, but you could adapt it!
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Post by luvlydory on Jun 12, 2006 20:33:22 GMT
www.ukchatterbox.co.uk/forum/577found this - looks like fun if you are a tennis fan.  any sport in this country is far from insignificant - we invented most of them only to be beaten repeatedly by foreign countries. Everybody has their own favourites wether korfball or worldwide tidlywinks, we also still have the freedom of speech (luckily) to express our opinions in whichever way we choose. 
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Jun 12, 2006 21:57:29 GMT
Who really cares what Murray thinks? I thought the original post was going to be about Tennis players in general, and their annual hogging of the media as they play their insignificant tournament in a sport 95% of people couldn't care less about for 50 weeks a year. No, THAT thread will probably correspond with Wimbledon. The point that irritated me slightly was the fact that he will be expecting all of us to be on his side. What do you think his reaction would be if we supported foreign tennis players against him just because he's a sweaty sock? It's come out that Roger Federer, no less, has a British grandmother and the trait certainly came out yesterday in his gallant loss to Nadal. If jolly Roger slips down the rankings another 30 or so places we can claim him for one of our own!! |
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