COME ON TIM!
Why do us Brits seem to insist we can win everything in sport when clearly we are rubbish.
Although ian hislop and ewan skywalker are watching.
What sport should we be good at - apart from pie eating obviously.
( crazyjude is very happy with happytoast and his skill, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:18, archived)

SHIT BLIMP

( baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:20, archived)

WHICH ONE?

( crazyjude is very happy with happytoast and his skill, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:24, archived)

Clearly rubbish?
He's number 3 in the world for fuck's sake, only behind the two greatest players of all time.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:20, archived)

He is a great player already
I really resent the way the press pile pressure on him to win though, he is still really young.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:22, archived)

He's not Tim Henman.
He's much, much more consistent. Grass isn't even his best surface (he's much better on hardcourts).

He doesn't mind the pressure, and as they've said on the punditry plenty of times, we always hoped Tim Henman would win but we never actually believed he would, where as Andy Murray we believe he should rather than just hope.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:24, archived)

I'm not sure it's them piling on the pressure
they just talk about his ability and previous performance. You may get headlines such as "Come on Murray" etc but isn't that just showing support (which if they didn't they'd get letters to the editor)
( magnum, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:24, archived)

Perhaps Murray was a bad example,
I don't like the way the media like to build people up just to tear them down again.

But it sells, so we are stuck with it.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:26, archived)

I think it's because the British almost feels slighted if someone we've been nice to doesn't deliver.

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:29, archived)

I wasn't talking about murray specifically
Or at all really. He's doing very well. More about the team sports.
( crazyjude is very happy with happytoast and his skill, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:23, archived)

We're very good at paralympic sports (like the wheelchair basketball and blind football)
as well as emerging women's sports.

We're not exactly bad at football, rugby or hockey.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:25, archived)

Emerging women's sports sounds exciting
"Over there, near the hedge."
"Two points to Mr Magnum. Spotted the lady emerging from the hedge. Pulling up knickers bonus. Magnum leads 9 points to 3, second round"
( magnum, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:27, archived)

I believe indeed we won the womens cricket
and the 20 20.
( crazyjude is very happy with happytoast and his skill, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:29, archived)

Weather commentary
Queueing
Outdrinking Americans
Taking ze piss out of ze Germans/ French/ Other Foreigners
Being shitty tourists
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:20, archived)

Teenage pregnancy olympics

( magnum, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:21, archived)

Drunken dancing
And fighting.
( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:22, archived)

Moaning about the weather

( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:22, archived)

It's way too hot to be at work
I've had to use my dehydration stuff today. I've been pissing sweat out of every pore.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:28, archived)

we are pretty good at sailing and cycling at the moment.

( Nostrebor can't be everything all the time., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:23, archived)

Torchwood is fucking shit

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:23, archived)

snooker

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:23, archived)

The Brits invented a lot of the major team sports,
or formalised them at least. So we really should be better at a lot of them. Then again we have quite a small population compared to many of the countries we paly against.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:25, archived)

and we play ALL the sports we invented,
while most of the other countries focus on only one of them.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:26, archived)

That is true,
N.Z. for instance, has a population of 4 million, yet are arguably the best rugby side in the world. They only play rugby really, cricket and football really don't feature.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:29, archived)

or tennis, or hockey, or golf, or crown green bowls

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:31, archived)

I think that's the best point to make about British sport.

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:32, archived)

it doesn't even make sense that we should be better at things just because we invented them,
it would be unsporting in the least to only invent games with the intent of winning all the time. And it's like saying only Greeks should be any good at medicine.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:34, archived)

I know, it's not as if we invented them a few years ago, practiced them for ages and then told the world about them.
I think the fact that we play so many different sports and are in the top 10 in the world for the majority of them show's that we're not exactly crap at sports.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:36, archived)

I have no opinion on Tennis.
Just like during the other 50 weeks of the year.
We're quite good at cricket, aren't we?
( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:26, archived)