and Andy, then? Andy is just a smidgeon ahead.

Nah, I'm bathing Humphrey.

Humphrey the goldfish? Doesn't he bathe himself?

NAH .. I've had 'orders' to clean him out off the bairn ... £1.45 he cost, and as per the script he was supposed to turn up his fins after a week, this buggers hard as nails and cost me a packet in sundry fish novelties.

Clean him out? Colonic irrigation, you mean?

Sorry, clean his fish kingdom out, along with his novelty arch, sunken shipwreck, figure of Spongey Bob and Plant .... hardly room for the water when that lot goes in.

1 set all now, with Murray taking the 2nd Set and probably has the momentum with him now.

.... and I've turned the filter back on, GET IN!!!

Let's hope for a late comback from brodderick so henman can lose and everyone can shut up about tennis for another 12 months!

That's a very miserable attitude to take now, surely.

I Just have the whole 'wimbledon' vibe, i hate the upper class snobbery of wimbledon, i hate you, i hate the hangers on of people who like tennis for 3 weeks, i hate you, i hate the scottish idiot playing on centre court right now.

I hate the menopausal, gin-soaked housewife with an obsession with mini Union Flags about it.

I love tennis, mind.

I try to take an interest in tennis all the year round, I know what you're saying - if we're going to succeed in the future, interest has to go on beyond Wimbledon.

And whether you hate him or not, Murray getting into the semis is still the country's best result since 2002.

Brilliant

I'm a Tennis Fan watch it throughout the year, All the majors. I have to agree with you about Wimbledon though and the upper class snobbery, Its annoying. Them all going "Oooh, Ahhh, Oooh" at the net and stuff like that, You only see that at Wimbledon. There are a lot of hangers on who like the Tennis for the 3 weeks its on, Your spot on there. It can be good for the sport in the country as a whole, As other than Andy Murray we are hopeless for good British Tennis Players. The last good one before Murray was the pure Canadian Greig Rusedski. I do hope we see more British hopefuls appear in the next few years following on from interest in watching the snob fest that is Wimbledon

It's the tradition which makes this tournament so legendary and different in my opinion.

That's why the players on the tour regard it very highly.

It's not

To be honest, if you offered me tennis, serial masturbation, goat felching, crossing the road at Place De La Concorde at 5.30pm on a Friday, cleaning a geriatric wards bogs after dinner on a Thursday lunch (apple and gooseberry crumble) and hammering barbed wire through my feet with a jigger pick, tennis'd probably come 5th.

But each to his own.

If I was up to the neck in a cesspool and they threatened to throw a bucket of sick at me head if I didn't want to watch the Eurovison, I'd take it full face.

Some people are just different.

Radically different.

But don't you think that's rather a miserable view to have about the world?

But which of the 5 options WOULD you prefer tennis over?

No

every1 bums wimbledon its sad.
and if somehow murray won he'd say it was a scottish victory not an english one surely

I hope he wouldn't.

Anyway what he can't avoid is the caption on the TV:

Murray (GBR)

He's going to lose, lost momentum now, doesn't look confident at all, not hitting the ball confidently, his confidence is drained out of him, he has zero confidence in his stance, the crowd know his confidence has gone.

The match isn't over yet.

I've turned the link off to the BBC now, I'm not interested in supporting him now he's a loser.

I know cos there still playing.

That's one hell of an attitude to take, Billingham, isn't it?

If anything, the crowd should be getting behind him.

Not quite but she's starting to clear her throat;

Here are Pok's 2 replies based on the 2 scenarios....

He wins....

AMAZING, Greatest sporting achivement since that last sporting achivement i mentioned a few moment ago, what a game, he controlled it, even though i had 4 other sporting events on in the background and i was watching them all at the same time, which team gb was also amazing at, it was just amazing and he was awesome and if he was a lezzer i would do him.

He loses...

AMAZING, Greatest sporting achivement since the one earlier which at that point was amazing, he controlled the game but was unlucky, team gb will rise to the top one day

If he comes back, and then goes on to beat Federer, then well done; but my world won't be a different place when I go to work on Monday, so I can have whatever attitude I like.

He'd say "I dont need any of your bastard english captions"
in a thick scottish accent

Well, this match at the moment thanks to Murray has been put right back in the balance, so i might be a long before I'll be aligning to one of those views.

Feel free to copy n paste whichever one you like when it ends though.

It will be the greatest posting achivement since earlier on when you had a great posting achivement.

A tiny light dawns.

The only valid view of the world is a miserable one, then you can't be disappointed.

Get used to it.

andy's girlfriend isn't just with him cos of his money and fame you know
honest

I'd rather be disappointed than be miserable, if I'm honest.

Fame?

He can't get arrested for 11 months of the year.

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rofl

He's right though inne

Sing lady, sing

away then PoK tell us how unlucky and amazing he was and how it was a great achivement regardless...

That was predictable in spite of the form book.

Murray didn't really have a chance against Roddick's serve and net play.

Useless bloody SCOTSMAN

It was an real display of British tennis (it wasnt good enough)

He was playing on the net?

Oh dear do you mean he lost?

he's better at tennis than us lot still =p
in the end I was rootin for murray
but nevermind. He's still the face of british tennis
and he has better teeth than hennman

I'm glad Andy Broddick won. I like him the better of the two, by what I've seen....a better criterion than the country either Andy comes from.

God save us from politically correct nationalism.