Wimbledon crowds are essentially twats: Discuss

[Kinky Gerbil]

Of course, some of the ignorance here is just the average ,yobbish football supporter. Das Reich, Macedonian, and MurrayMint have summed it all up superbly.
Tennis is a FANTASTIC sport....sometime gladatorial ...two people trying to annihilate each other, but at the end of the match 'comrades in arms'.
Federer v Nadal last year was ,without doubt,without exception, one of the greatest sporting contests ever. AND..sportsmanship at its ultimate finest .
No cheating,no diving, ....just hours of the finest sport imaginable !.
As i said earlier......9 months of moronic chanting, insults etc to look forward to !

Tennis is a great Sport, What I find interesting is you will be hard pressed to find a Ronaldo type in the game.

Like you said tennis players, unlike footballers are real sports people not out to cheat the way to a win.

 

[looney]

Any event where cliff starts singing and isn't pelted with bricks is suspect imo.

I dont like it, I dont care who wins it and I just want it to f*** off. Off TV, news and give us some good films.

I dont care that its mainly toffs, but it seems to be the dumber ones. At least with fox hunting you get a kill at the end, they should try that.

 

[looney]

Tennis is a great Sport, What I find interesting is you will be hard pressed to find a Ronaldo type in the game.

Like you said tennis players, unlike footballers are real sports people not out to cheat the way to a win.

Tennis players dont cheat? Macenroe has admitted his tantrums were in large part gamesmanship. Its also to high tec for cheating otherwise. They wouldn't gain anything for diving.

 

[Jahooli]

What, so if 6,000 ish of us , take the piss at the oppo missing a penalty , then it should be retaken , because we put the goalie off ?? .NAH

Different game, different rules, we are talking about tennis crowds, the crowd are told to be quiet during serves a bit like snooker, a groan or oohhh is understandable CLAPPING a f*** up is crass.

 

[Easy 10]

I've got no problem with tennis. I might even tune in now and then to watch a match occasionally.
But it doesn't detract from the FACT that a large proportion of Wimbledon spectators are, irrefutably, embarrassing twats. The case for the prosecution ? Just watch the mass HYSTERIA that completely overwhelms large sections of the crowd when a PIGEON lands on the court. I've seen this happen a couple of times, and I swear, you'd get no less of a reaction from the crowd if a UFO descended from sky, clipped the roof, crash-landed on the umpire, and opened its doors to enable David Hasselhoff to roll out onto the court with his hair on fire.

Pigeons are officially the most exciting things in the world to Wimbledon crowds. You watch, see if it happens this year and tell me I'm wrong.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

For many reasons, but here are some you may wish to consider:

1) They don't sing or shout like fans of proper sports, instead they do that appalling "Murray!" clap clap clap "Murray!" clap clap clap thing that eight year old girls do while watching their classmates play netball

2) Aorangi Terrace (or Henman Hill/Murray Mount to give it it's embarrassing BBC nickname): why do the people sitting on it feel the need to stand and give a big two handed wave every time the camera cuts to them? It's like watching a non-league side playing a 'giant'- say, Southend- in the first round of the cup, where their fans are so excited by the prospect of being on TV they just can't help themselves and gesticulate frantically at the cameras every time there's a corner

3) The spectators on Centre Court who STILL think it's funny to wait until the crowd have just about stopped cheering a point in a game between Andy Murray and just about anyone, before shouting out wittily "COME ON TIM!"


I think the above just about covers it for me.

Are all Coppers bent, and are they all power hungry dickheads?

The answer is no, but a few are, just as a few Wimbledon fans are probably twats. THe vast majority however are there to watch a really good sport and have a great day out.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Have never even bothered trying to get Wimbledon tickets. Is it possible for mere mortals to get them without waiting for five years to be voted in as a member of East Blatchington Lawn Tennis Club (or insert name of club here) before being entered into a secret Masonic ballot by aforementioned local lawn tennis club and then finding out that you've either failed or have got tickets for Court 245 at Wimbledon... three weeks after the Championships have ended? As for Centre Court tickets - do you have to sleep with Sir Cliff? I presume the only other option is being ripped off by Ticketmaster.

Anyone?

If you read the thread through you would have read that it is possible to get there early, see some tennis on the outside courts and then get onto a show court later in the day.

This is exactly what my son did today - £20.00 to get in, and only an additional £5.00 to get on Centre to see Murray.

 

[Collar Feeler]

I don't like tennis at all and therefore find Wimbledon as boring and disinteresting as any other tennis competition. If forced to watch I do find it slightly cringeworthy and a bit embarrassing at times and can't stand Andy 'Ok I'm british now but secretly I'm a raging anglophobic tosspot' Murray. I do like when its on though since I can dissapear into my garage or garden and do mans/dads stuff whilst the wife watches intently.

I do find it all a bit elitist I'm afraid too.

 

[vegster]

Football and other sports are played constantly throughout the year so for 2 weeks of 52 can we just support the British players and once more the sport of tennis!!!

If you were any sort of tennis fan you would have noticed its 2 days and not 2 weeks

 

[Gwylan]

Difficulties arise when people take one set of behavioural values in a sport and apply them to another. Cricket has had this issue with the arrival of a different type of spectator for 20/20 matches than those who would normally attend a 4 day county championship match.

Glamorgan cricketer Robert Croft described it this way in 2007 after he'd been verbally abused during a 20/20 game:

"Why does it happen? Well, I think it's a game that attracts a younger crowd and maybe fans of other sports who come along because their sport is not on at the time. They have a drink and then get rowdy. Cricket is traditionally a gentleman's game - players play very hard on the field but it's done in an atmosphere where fans can bring food along, have some wine or beer, enjoy the cricket and leave in a good manner. I'm just concerned it could be starting to move down the wrong direction."

That would be the same Robert Croft who had a bit of handbags with Mark Illot in a limited-overs game some time in the late 90s.

Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle.

As for Wimbledon: I went once as I was given free tickets but I was bored out of my school most of the time. The most exciting bit for me was seeing Grizzly having a cup of coffee in the cafe. It was an interesting experience seeing the English upper classes at their leisure but I think I prefer sport on the whole.

 

[Tooting Gull]

There's nothing wrong with tennis, the sport. But Edna is spot on about most of those attending Wimbledon, they make you embarrassed to be British. Only there is a pigeon perching on the net, or a ball-boy slipping over, considered hilarious. Unfortunately the BBC pander to this rather pathetic audience.

The 'proper' sports fans, and I say this as someone who is one and has been to Wimbledon, are in the huge minority.

 

[Billy the Fish]

You get the feeling most are there because it's wimbledon, rather than to watch tennis.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I've got no problem with tennis. I might even tune in now and then to watch a match occasionally.
But it doesn't detract from the FACT that a large proportion of Wimbledon spectators are, irrefutably, embarrassing twats. The case for the prosecution ? Just watch the mass HYSTERIA that completely overwhelms large sections of the crowd when a PIGEON lands on the court. I've seen this happen a couple of times, and I swear, you'd get no less of a reaction from the crowd if a UFO descended from sky, clipped the roof, crash-landed on the umpire, and opened its doors to enable David Hasselhoff to roll out onto the court with his hair on fire.

Pigeons are officially the most exciting things in the world to Wimbledon crowds. You watch, see if it happens this year and tell me I'm wrong.

I think this is where I'm coming from, more or less.

I did offer this up for discussion, and qualified it with the word essentially, thus implying it wasn't necessarily the case for 100% of people who attend Wimbledon. Nor was I having a go at tennis as a sport as such, though it is odd how we only really pay attention to it for fourteen days a year, or whenever Murray vaguely looks like winning something. And as for saying it's the tournament all the players want to win...well how do we really know that? Isn't that a bit like when the BBC describe the FA Cup as "the best cup competition in the world"? Or call the Premier League "the league all players want to play in"? Maybe the French Open has an equal amount of prestige to players, and us thinking Wimbledon is all that is really just us seeing what we want to see. But then again...it's just my opinion, like.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch the highlights. Hope they haven't missed out any pigeon episodes.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I watch tennis all year around, and I play it all year around aswell. I love the sport, it's brilliant to watch and to play. But the Wimbledon crowds really come across to me as being fair weather fans, I don't believe that they're hardcore tennis fans and I honestly don't think they need to. They show up, pay their money and enjoy watching the sport.

 

[Brovion]

Edna is 100% Correct.

Our local tennis courts are virtually empty for most of the year apart from about a month overlapping with Wimbledon. Real Sports fans are not that fickle.

Henman hill? Cretin Kop more like, tennis and tennis fans effectivley vindicate everything that Karl Marx wrote.

Oh screw that. Cant we just sell wimbledon to the arabs or the Yanks? I dont give a flying f***, its not a real sport, most of the Females are lezzas cheered on by poofs, some even used to be men.

i couldn't care less about Murry, Hope I get a good price laying the sod to lose.

They should rip it down and build the REAL Wimbledon, AFC wimbledon, a new ground.

They speak in French, Deuce, they score in base 15. Its retarded.

Its like Ice dancing, pointless to anyone with a brain.

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Just because the only females you get near all have surnames ending in jpeg no need to get bitter at us real men you tennis freak.

looNEY *clap clap clap*
looNEY *clap clap clap*
looNEY *clap clap clap*

"Come on looney!"

 

[Icy Gull]

I reckon there are more twats at an Albion home game than for any of the games played over a two week period at Wimbledon

 

[Austrian Gull]

I don't think you can expect Wimbledon crowds to start chanting - it just wouldn't fit. They're just an extremely polite section of British society. Crowds at Roland Garros regularly boo players they feel are playing badly or not trying. Can you imagine that ever happening at Wimbledon?

What does annoy me is that most of them have just a passing interest in tennis and would have no idea about who won the other Grand Slams or the Davis Cup.

 

[pasty]

The golf at the weekend (as it always is in America) was ruined some fat yank shouting "get in the hole" after every f***ing shot.

God, I f***ing HATE that.

I don't mind watching the tennis, but Wimbledon is the only tennis I ever watch. And yes, some of the fans are complete and utter knob-heads.

The next time someone "hilariously"shouts out on "Come on Tim" durring a Murray match, I'd love to see him stop playing, climb over the barrier and batter that person about the head with his slazenger.

 

[Austrian Gull]

What's worse, said fat yank shouting "get in the hole" or "you're the man"?

 

[pasty]

What's worse, said fat yank shouting "get in the hole" or "you're the man"?

Shouldn't that read "You da man"