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I can’t believe this fantastic achievement of dedication and single minded hard work to achieve the greatest level in his chosen sport so far of any British player since Fred Perry and no one seems fit to go mention it. Just wittering on about overpaid and useless footballers and cricketers.God preserve me !!It’s probably because he is one of the most disliked tennis players and I know very few people who want him to win or respect him.
Pete
Don’t really follow tennis. Why is he disliked? Is it the players, the public or both?
He is a talented tennis player and plays entertaining tennis and should win a grand slam tournament if his stamina can last out but he is not popular and 59% of the members of a tennis forum voted for him as the player they dislike the most.
He has a reputation of being one of the most disliked players on the tour. People say he’s petulant, argumentative and that he talks trash. He is bratty and arrogant.Pete
He is a talented tennis player and plays entertaining tennis and should win a grand slam tournament if his stamina can last out but he is not popular and 59% of the members of a tennis forum voted for him as the player they dislike the most.
He has a reputation of being one of the most disliked players on the tour. People say he’s petulant, argumentative and that he talks trash. He is bratty and arrogant.Pete
Stamina is not an issue anymore with Murray and it hasn’t been for a year or so now. He was quite a late bloomer physically but has worked hard and is quite a specimen now with stamina one of his many strengths.
Having a ‘reputation’ for being one of the least liked players on the tour has been something banded about for years about loads of players and is just an old yarn quite frankly. As for the saintly 59%…they probably can’t get away from the ‘British’ tag he’s got on the continent…bit too near to England for their liking I guess.
He’s a pasty faced, miserable, whingeing tw@t.
The majority of people I know, myself obviously included, would want any other opponent on the planet to beat him in whatever match he plays.
He alienated himself from a large portion of English sporting fans when, in his earlier days he turned around and said "I’m not British, I’m Scottish".
Perfectly fair enough but if that’s how he wants it to be then so be it.
Lee
Oh dear. So he’s alienated a large portion of English "sporting" fans…….as if he should care. He’s doing very nicely thankyou without their support. What matters is the support of genuine tennis fans around the world who recognise his sublime talents and couldn’t give a stuff about his dislike of the England football team.
That’s fine but then he should keep his mouth shut re: the apparent lack of support he gets when he’s playing at Wimbledon.
He alienated himself from a large portion of English sporting fans when, in his earlier days he turned around and said "I’m not British, I’m Scottish".
Perfectly fair enough but if that’s how he wants it to be then so be it.
Lee
Well, yeah, to think he had the choice of being Spanish, Italian, English, French or Scottish and the cheeky ******* opts for…wait for it… Scottish….unbelievable. What a slap in the face, eh?
He alienated himself from a large portion of English sporting fans when, in his earlier days he turned around and said "I’m not British, I’m Scottish".
Perfectly fair enough but if that’s how he wants it to be then so be it.
Lee
Well, yeah, to think he had the choice of being Spanish, Italian, English, French or Scottish and the cheeky [expletive] opts for…wait for it… Scottish….unbelievable. What a slap in the face, eh?
er, no he didn’t.
He is both Scottish and British so by refuting his British status he was effectively disassociating himself from any potential patriotism forthcoming from the English, Northern Irish & Welsh.
As I said in my previous post, that is his prerogative but IMO he should not expect the unequivocal allegiance of tennis fans from those countries thereafter.
He might as well be Spanish, Italian or French…
He alienated himself from a large portion of English sporting fans when, in his earlier days he turned around and said "I’m not British, I’m Scottish".
Perfectly fair enough but if that’s how he wants it to be then so be it.
Lee
Well, yeah, to think he had the choice of being Spanish, Italian, English, French or Scottish and the cheeky [expletive] opts for…wait for it… Scottish….unbelievable. What a slap in the face, eh?
er, no he didn’t.
He is both Scottish and British so by refuting his British status he was effectively disassociating himself from any potential patriotism forthcoming from the English, Northern Irish & Welsh.
As I said in my previous post, that is his prerogative but IMO he should not expect the unequivocal allegiance of tennis fans from those countries thereafter.
He might as well be Spanish, Italian or French…
He gets plenty of support from from English fans where it matters most – in the tennis arena – as he did at wimbledon last year. To be quite honest, being Scottish, I would hazard a guess that Andy neither expects or expected ‘patriotism forthcoming’ from certainly the English anyhow! You seem quite deluded in this respect. Mr Murray is nobodies fool and couldn’t give a **** either way, I’m sure.
Do I detect an anti-Scottish ( or should that be, Andy-Scottish
) bias on this thread ? Yes, he is a surly big b**gg*r, as we say in Scotland, and opinion is divided about him ( yes, even up here ) but you cannot take away what he has achieved.
He has the bottle, as well as talent –
something which Tim – nice- but – dim Henman didn’t have.
He’s made such an impact that even the once unflappable Roger Federer is starting to lose his rag. Roger chucking his tennis racquet about the court ? Things must be bad.
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I spent years working in Scotland and still have very close friends up there so no – it’s nothing to do with anti-Scotland.
Unbelievable, you dislike somebody who is from another country and it turns into a racist hatred FFS. There are plenty of English people who I can’t stand either.
There’s no delusion on my part though – you’re quite correct OOS in that he would have been widely disliked regardless.
He just made it a lot easier that’s all.
The best of it is, Andy Murray couldn’t give a monkeys whether soft southerners like him or not.
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It was Djokovic who caused Federer sling his racket around – but i would say a certain Spaniard is behind a lot of Federers current woes.
Murray is top drawer – are any of our footballers in the top 4 in the World? Of course not – but there are so many football competitions there are therefore so many "winners".
Henman was a better tennis player than any British footballers were football players of the last 40 years – but because he’s not as good as Pete Sampras he’s a loser?
Don’t buy it, never have never will.
There’s a lot of petulance on this thread IMO, which I find quite ironic as it seems to be based on quotes attributable to a daft 19-y-o (as he was then IIRC) lad.
Let’s face facts:
Murray is arrogant- as are all the best sportsmen. That includes some of Britain’s finest of the last 20 years, Nick Faldo being an immediate-to-hand example.
Young Scotsmen tend to have a distinct lack of time for the apparently English-biased media in Britain. I know, I was one of them as a teenager.
Furthermore, he moans an awful lot- easily explicable seeing as he supports the Hibs!
Simply put (IMO), Britain can for the first time in Christ-knows-how-many years enjoy one of the world’s finest tennis players, and such an opportunity should not be cast aside because ‘Timmy’ was more polite.
) bias on this thread ? 
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