professorhat:
Torres09:Just when we get rid of Henmania another one arrives............
"another one arrives" - So you'd prefer it if Britain had no leading sports men / women I guess? Then you wouldn't have to watch a part of the nation get excited that we might actually have someone who was one of the best in the world.
Given you're a Liverpool fan, I guess I can understand that.
Prof, no real need for that outburst. I don't feel the need to cheer someone on just because they are British. Murray and Henman are the most boring personalities. Mansell, Faldo and Lewis Hamilton are the same for me. Button has a bit about him - cheeky chappy maybe.
Murray did himself no favours when he declared that he cheered on the other side when England played football. I don't blame him for being like that but he as silly it would hardly adhere him to the English public, to which many fans of tennis belong.
At the end of the day, sport is all about having favourites and teams/people that you don't like - Murray is one of them. Not quite Man Utd, maybe more like Chelsea to me.
And your bit about being a Liverpool fan is lost on me. If you are saying that we don't have many English players in the team, what about the fact that we have an Italian as our national coach? I see it as nationality does not come into any of it. I like who I like.