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[Other Sport] Sir Andy Murray
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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Moshe Gariani
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Andy speaking...
Not confirming retirement.
Not confirming retirement.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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WTF?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Class act in the post-match interview 
Badger Boy
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- Jan 28, 2016
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The video was a bit odd but well meaning. Heroic performance from Sir Andy, one of the best players the UK will ever produce.
World of Sport
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Well done Busta Agut 
Wrong-Direction
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Multimillionaire soppy bollocks
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
He's already ruled that out.
Geestar
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TWO Wimbledon titles. TWO Olympic gold medals. Not bad for a gawky ginger kid from Dunblane
Ginger is an advantage in tennis. Think Boris Becker and Jim Courier.
crodonilson
He/Him
Just fought back from 2 sets down in the US Open first round. The Brit never knows when he's beaten.
Pavilionaire
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Just fought back from 2 sets down in the US Open first round. The Brit never knows when he's beaten.
The Scottish **** becomes a British hero in just a couple of hours.
Lenny Rider
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Ally McCoist said he was the greatest living British sportsman on Talk Sport yesterday.
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It's a tough call between him, Hoy and Redgrave. Almost impossible to compare them.
Should bring back Superstars and do it there.
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Irrespective of whether he's British, Scottish or bloody Martian, I find Andy Murray a hugely inspirational person, sportsman and just a very interesting character in general. I can understand why some say he's boring; he's not there throwing out soundbites like Tyson Fury and he has an understated, slightly dreary quality to his voice. But there's more to a man's character than that.
This was a quiet kid from an unassuming Scottish town, who witnessed the greatest atrocity ever to have been inflicted on a school in the United Kingdom, who rose to be a phenomenal, hugely entertaining and world class sportsman amidst possibly the best crop of talent to have played tennis in the same era - were it not for that I'm certain his career titles list would have been even more impressive than it already is.
When he speaks he does so with humility, honesty and raw emotion. People don't always like what he has to say, and sometimes it can be construed as grumpy, but his words weren't manufactured in an elite academy's PR classroom like those of so many others. I can think of few sportsmen capable of displaying their emotions in the public arena like Andy Murray so helplessly does, and fair play to him.
I think there's a funny mentality which prevails in the UK. We like our sportspeople to be successful, but not too much. At some point a sense of uncomfortable envy seems to take over and we have to find a way to take them down. "Yeah, he's not bad but he's a boring, ginger, haggis-eating b*stard so he can go f*ck himself". I'd put Lewis Hamilton in a similar bracket only for opposite reasons; he's too cocky and flash, apparently. You can't win.
Personally, I have nothing but respect for the bloke and I hope he gets at least one more shot at having a decent grand slam run.