He does seem to have gone a bit transatlantic in his accent these days- maybe he's not worried about anybody relating to him except Lloyd Grossman and Joss Stone?
Personally, I think he should improve his media image by locking himself in a room with tapes of Valentino Rossi interviews and some psycho-suggestive drugs.
Then, after cruising to another world championship victory, we could debate whether 'Andrea' Murray was British or Italian. 
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It'd be nice for the sweaties to win something. Maybe they'd feel better about themselves and stop being such lousy neighbours
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I think its more that he was set up in the interview where he ended up saying " anyone but England" and thus he is very cautious about what he says now.
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Im Scottish but obviously British as well and come to think of it European also Im from the Northern hemisphere and mother Earth.
Good luck to Murray for sunday ,Im sure the whole of Dunblane , scotland and the UK will be cheering him on. He's a tennis player at the end of the day not a talk show host so why does he get a poor rep for being boring. FFS Tim Henman wasn't exactly a laugh a minute , Oh and he was shit at tennis.Posted 2 years ago # -
+1 for WestKipper as our Murray Media Mogul.
He needs you WK, as sure as eggs is eggs. Can you start tomorrow?
(I think the whole "Perhaps Andy is a little reserved due to the fact he suffered having to go through the Dunblane massacre as an 8 year old" is a bit below the belt as there's never an answer to that)
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Sorry, I'm not sure the drugs idea is too good.
Unlike us cyclists, tennis players never take drugs. Posted 2 years ago # -
If Henman was so "shit" at tennis how come he won so much in prize money, wasn't he also second in the world rankings for a while?
I wish I was as good as him at at anything.
Did come across as a bit boring but then again Sampras wasn't excactly a bundle of laughs.
Maybe (as someone mentioned) being a world class athlete takes a different mindset to all us MTB experts on here?
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I think he says he is Scottish so let’s just leave it as that.
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Always come over well on telly, I think. He seems intelligent and thoughtful, which is decent enough. On my list of sportspeople I'd like to meet.
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I'd be crap at interviews if I was an elite sportsman. Big if like! The questions are so inane with all the usual cliches being trotted out. He must just go on to auto pilot. Also, getting interviewed at the end of a hard match must be pretty tough - some matches last over 4 hours. After a 4 hour bike ride I don't usually feel like talking
BTW for the benefit of thos who didn't see it, BBC Scotland regional news referred to him repeatedly as British. More times than they called him Scottish anyway.
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FWIW, I've always been impressed with Tim Henman, and would echo the views that he was quality.
I always thought that it was his wretched 'come on Tim' fans that kinda brought his street cred down, not his playing.Posted 2 years ago # -
From todays BBC website article on McLaren...
Button has arrived at McLaren after winning the title with Brawn, who race as Mercedes this season, to give McLaren an all-English pairing.
It is also the first pairing of two British world champions since Graham Hill joined Jim Clark at Lotus in 1968.
Both statements are factually correct, but it's this sort of writing that winds some folk up.
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Both statements are factually correct, but it's this sort of writing that winds some folk up.
Why, cos it makes them feel inadequate ?
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Let's just say that it feeds a certain paranoia
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media are good at that
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Both statements are factually correct, but it's this sort of writing that winds some folk up.
How else do you suggest they wrote it? Are they not allowed to describe JB and LH as English because they use the term "British" later in the same article?Posted 2 years ago # -
British
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Irish
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Definitely Scottish.
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