Wimbledon

[Lateralthinking1]

.......I was just wondering if there is anyone who feels absolutely certain that Andy Murray will win on Sunday.

The chance to give a bit of positive support for the British man in this fantastic year of the London Olympics. It seems too good an opportunity to miss.

So come on all Andy Murray fans. Let's have that certainty and really keep it going on the forum to the big day ahead.

(No ulterior motive, obviously)

[EdgeleyRob]

Given that I am the only one going out on a limb, I will limit the photo & gooner hat to two months!

Go on then, I'll listen to some Sibelius

[Beef Oven]

Go on then, I'll listen to some Sibelius

[scottycelt]

I see. I can't recognise 'posh' Scottish accents outside Edinburgh or Glasgow, where I can detect differences. I'd expect a rather pleasanter manner from someone 'posh', a bit of Tim Nice-But-Dim (that was a Harry Enfield character, nothing to do with Henman......although......!) The billionaire bit doesn't come into it as far as I'm concerned.

I also don't see any connection between 'posh' and 'pleasant'. One doesn't have to like Andy Murray to realise that he might be considered rather 'posh' by many of the Hoi Polloi and Great Unwashed, at least north of the border, in exactly the same way as The Blessed Timothy might have been similarly viewed by millions of his own fellow countrymen, south of it!

[scottycelt]

.......I was just wondering if there is anyone who feels absolutely certain that Andy Murray will win on Sunday.

The chance to give a bit of positive support for the British man in this fantastic year of the London Olympics. It seems too good an opportunity to miss.

So come on all Andy Murray fans. Let's have that certainty and really keep it going on the forum to the big day ahead.

(No ulterior motive, obviously)

No, no, no, Lat ... that's not what any true Scot needs.

He (Andy) really needs to be told that he has not a snowball in hell's chance of winning, and that everyone, bar his mum, dad and girlfriend , don't want him to win anyway because they can't stand the sight or sound of him.

Then watch him go ... !

[Lateralthinking1]

No, no, no, Lat ... that's not what any true Scot needs.

He (Andy) really needs to be told that he has not a snowball in hell's chance of winning, and that everyone, bar his mum, dad and girlfriend , don't want him to win anyway because they can't stand the sight or sound of him.

Then watch him go ... !

Man Utd sympathiser!

[scottycelt]

Oh I don't know, scotty. What about Kelvinside and Morningside where they think sex is what they deliver coal in?

Fur coat and nae knickers!

That is certainly true, mangerton.

My old primary school teacher used to love referring to 'Kelvinsayed',

As for Murray himself he always refers to his next 'metch'. When I played football as an adorably runny-nosed and tackety-booted wee street-urchin, it was always a 'gemme' ... in the same way as an 'arena' was always a 'grun'.

Mind you, to refer to a tennis 'metch' as a 'gemme' might tend to get distinctly confusing to the posh and non-posh folk alike?

[salymap]

What a lot of worry I have missed by not thinking constantly about accents, class and country of origin.

I am English, with distant Scots and Welsh relis. My accent is probably London, as I was born there, working in music I spoke to all 'classes' of musicians whose accents and vocabulary varied greatly, I suppose Adrian Boult and RVW and Beecham were 'posh', another conductor, acquaintance 'put on' a different voice for speeches and ordinary conversation. Orchestral players varied in background, TG it was their ability that counted.

I don't recognise class in the Welsh and Scots as I don't have that knowledge of their background, if I can understand them it's enough.

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[Mary Chambers]

I also don't see any connection between 'posh' and 'pleasant'.

I didn't mean genuine pleasantness - just a veneer of good manners such as one might expect from a well brought up 25-year-old. He doesn't have this. I know this is nothing to do with whether or not he can play tennis.

[scottycelt]

[salymap]

I didn't mean genuine pleasantness - just a veneer of good manners such as one might expect from a well brought up 25-year-old. He doesn't have this. I know this is nothing to do with whether or not he can play tennis.

Manners is/are another topic. I agree Murray seems churlish and bad tempered most of the time

[Beef Oven]

"After two episodes in Barcelona I never drank again. I had a bad experience. I made myself look like a prat in front of my friends. The only reason I was drinking was to see what it was like to get drunk.

I hate the taste of alcohol. I don't even like champagne. I think beer is disgusting and I haven't tried whisky." - Andy Murray.


How can a man like this win Wimbledon!!!????

[antongould]

Manners is/are another topic. I agree Murray seems churlish and bad tempered most of the time

But we in the North have very right to be churlish! You have everything in the South - when are the Proms coming to Cambois?

[teamsaint]

If you wait around looking for good manners today, you are going to spend a lot of time waiting and disappointed, sadly.

a lead is set by the money grabbers who run pro sport....look at the way football clubs treat their fans...or check out the price of lunch at wimbleon !!

[teamsaint]

But we in the North have very right to be churlish! You have everything in the South - when are the Proms coming to Cambois?

I know this question will probably seem daft,and I have asked it before, but in these days of branding supremacy, why don't they take the proms on the road a few times each year?The right programmes could pull big crowds in Neecaastle, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol , Cardiff etc, given the right venues.