What resilience. Fair play to Verdasco - he played incredibly and kept it up right to the end. He's never only the 54th best in the world and will shoot up the rankings based on that.
Hate all the anti Murray rhetoric I hear. Nothing but nonsense. He's a fantastic player and his personality in interviews has improved immensely from when he was a grumpy teenager.
I like his grumpiness. It's sardonic humour and part of his personality which makes him a winner. Tim Henman was a media darling but never had the grit to win matches like Murray did today. He had talent, sure but never that winning mentality which takes players like Murray to the next level and beyond. I don't care that he's Scottish, he's British and he's the best British tennis player that's existed in any of our lives.
Nonsense it isn't .... though I suppose Newcastle is practically Scotland, I should have guessed you'd see his side.
If people can honestly find that man likeable then good for them. I can't stand the bloke, and it has nothing to do with him "hating" England and everything to do with his miserable, boring persona and the way idiots treat him as if he's one of our own. He's not, he's Scottish, we're English.
I believe both of those countries are part of Britain mate. Do you refuse to root for Europe in the Ryder Cup as well because not all the players were born within 5 miles of you?
I couldn't give a toss about the Ryder Cup personally. People are only "British" when it suits them. I've said it before and I'll say it again, in any other sport or even in general the English can't stand the Scottish, yet when it comes to Wimbledon, Murray becomes "one of our own" and gets relentlessly brown nosed from every corner of the country because we don't have any top class English players to follow. It's all rather sad and cringe-worthy. And again, even ignoring that, the bloke just isn't likeable. He's a boring, miserable character and I'd dislike him whether he was English, Scottish or from Mars.
Actually mate I think you'll find most of us like being British, and I for one find this whole Anglophilia a bit ridiculous. Until the day Scotland declares independence (which I don't think will happen btw) I'll continue to see them as part of us. Plus he seems like a genuinely nice, if slightly shy, bloke who brings an intensity to the court that Britain has traditionally been severely lacking in.
I don't like him because he said 'I hate the ****ing English and wish the place would burn' on live TV. Unforgivable.
I think if he wins wimbledon we'll see a huge breakdown on the court. He's been using the whole trauma of being at Dunblane and and things to help motivate him and he said only once he wins wimbledon will he reveal who he looks up to the sky to when he wins.
Tonight when that terwat of a BBC journalist asked him that painfully long, contrived question about Sir Alex's hair dryer and Lendal. I don't blame him to be honest as I felt murderous hearing it.
I was watching the whole thing. Never heard him say anything of the sort, though I could see he was getting pretty wound up with the idiot journo. Besides his girlfriend's English, he's said in the past he's proud to British as well as Scottish. The whole thing just doesn't stick.
I think he muttered it in Gaelic so you have to rewind your Sky Plus recording at x12 to actually hear it in English.
Who's "most of us"? I didn't know you were the spokesperson for the whole country? As Scotland is "part of us", I presume you see no rivalry with them in football or rugby then, and want them to do just as well as England? He's a miserable, boring, Scottish tennis player who I have absolutely no reason to like. Simple as.
