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)