Will Andy Murray ever win another Grand Slam ?

[DarloRich]

So I presume you share a similar opinion of golf (dress codes, expensive clubs, etc.) and horse racing (unaffordable for most people to own a horse, etc. )

Yes and maybe, depending on how much I have just lost on the 3:15 from Catterick. Mind you my friend owns a racehorse. Its rubbish a one but he owns one. Well part of one. The rubbish part.

I might not be able to own a racehorse but I can have a decent day out with my friends for a reasonable price at any number of racecourses We have a nice meal in our own box or enclosure, a few drinks, a few quid on the races and a decent, fun , day out. It is the same with the greyhounds. Could i have the same day at Tennis? I doubt it.

Or that engineering competition masquerading as sport, F1 car racing ?

I quite like the technical side of F1 as it appeals to my geeky side. It is massively inaccessible though and vastly expensive to watch the British GP! Even more so than Tennis We now tend to go abroad to watch ( Belgium/Itlay/Spain) and have a decent week away for the price of the ticket at Silverstone.

However, in the MK area at least, even F1 teams go into schools to talk about technology, engineering and IT and try to inspire people. There is even a college campus at Silverstone teaching such things.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I heard strangers more than once mention Murray being somewhere "on the spectrum"???

I never got any further than being on the VIC20...

 

[me123]

I think the "anyone but the English" jibe is an urban myth - he can hardly be described as being anti - English when his wife is English and he lives in Surrey

"Anyone but England" is a bit of a joke in Scotland, which refers pretty much exclusively to the English football team. It's not against English people in general - it's a light hearted take on football. English people take this very personally it seems.

I remember Murray getting called a "traitor" (yes, really) during the independence referendum, after he stated that he supports independence. A huge swathe of English people seem to have it in for him over what are ultimately quite trivial things.

 

[Butts]

"Anyone but England" is a bit of a joke in Scotland, which refers pretty much exclusively to the English football team. It's not against English people in general - it's a light hearted take on football. English people take this very personally it seems.

I remember Murray getting called a "traitor" (yes, really) during the independence referendum, after he stated that he supports independence. A huge swathe of English people seem to have it in for him over what are ultimately quite trivial things.

As he now lives in Surrey and comes from an ex- Conservative seat in Scotland perhaps announcing he is a closet Tory would endear him to "Middle-England"

 

[DarloRich]

"Anyone but England" is a bit of a joke in Scotland, which refers pretty much exclusively to the English football team. It's not against English people in general - it's a light hearted take on football. English people take this very personally it seems.

I remember Murray getting called a "traitor" (yes, really) during the independence referendum, after he stated that he supports independence. A huge swathe of English people seem to have it in for him over what are ultimately quite trivial things.

You might see it as a joke. Many in England don't.

 

[Senex]

You might see it as a joke. Many in England don't.

Hear, hear!!

 

[Butts]

You might see it as a joke. Many in England don't.

It was a joke, anyone remember the cracks about Scottish Goalkeepers - which unfortunately were not (at the time)

 

[St Rollox]

"Anyone but England"

What's the problem with that.