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| Spreadie wrote: we finally have a British Wimbledon Champion! Brilliant! | |
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Male. Don't forget Virginia Wade was women's champion back in the 1970s.
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | well done Murray ... |
77 years later, well done, very well done sir ... |
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: well done Murray ... |
To use the Mancunian slang... Djokovic might be sick but Murray's mint! Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 4 Beta |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 5:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: well done Murray ... |
That final game was incredible. Great result and a fantastic achievement. After all those years cheering on the likes of Bates and Henman, we finally have a British Wimbledon Champion! Brilliant! |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:25 pm ] | |||||||||
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Male. Don't forget Virginia Wade was women's champion back in the 1970s. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:09 pm ] | |||||||||
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Indeed. Strange confluence of numbers over it all. Wade won in '77. Murray won after 77 years, on 7/7. Bloody good on him. He did himself, his family, his backup team and his nation (whichever of the two you consider that to be) proud. And, given that's his second major win, he can now definitely claim to be 'the real deal', not at all a 'could be'. He's won two majors and an Olympic gold medal in the same (in effect) year, he's got a very good claim to actually be the best in the world at what he does, regardless of exactly what the world rankings say. Lions thump the Aussies at rugby, Murray wins at Wimbledon, Ashes start on Wednesday. Football? You can keep it. |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: well done Murray ... |
And while he might not be a great interviewee, as it turns out, [url=http://www.sportpulse.net/content/andy-murray-donates-his-wimbledon-prize-money-£16-million-royal-marsden-hospital-9363]he's a rather good bloke.[/url] |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: well done Murray ... |
BBC still running it as 'breaking news' on the news channel  . Well, it's fair, there are tribesmen in the gobi desert who might not have heard yet...
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 12:38 am ] | |||||||||
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I think that they are more interested in the Gobi Desert Challenge or Camel Polo. |
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| Author: | EddArmitage [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 7:32 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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And singles. We've had numerous Brits form at least one half of the various doubles champions in the years since Perry won. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:04 am ] | |||||||||
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Didn't Andy Murray's brother win a double's title a couple of years back? That must have made for an interesting sibling dynamic before yesterday. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:59 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Quoting half a line, does a great job of removing context. I was clearly talking about the men's singles 
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:32 am ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Apart from Bates and Henman there's no clear intimation of gender.  Besides, as others have pointed out, men's doubles champions 2012 were British. It's a media thing, drumming up the "waiting since Fred Perry" meme, conveniently forgetting the other Wimbledon champs this country has provided since. Corrections are all over the Twitters.
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| Author: | TheFrenchun [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: well done Murray ... |
Tennis. meh. More dull than cricket. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: well done Murray ... |
Spreaking of other champions, I see Inverdale all but called Marion Bartoli a munter. Nice job, pillock. How much longer before the beeb drop this numpty? |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:46 am ] | |||||||||
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Agreed. Inverdale always reminded me of the embarrassing lecherous uncle who tries to chat up a bridesmaid half his age at a family wedding. No class at all. |
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