Wimbledon crowds are essentially twats: Discuss

[Brovion]

I think that tennis players would not have so much of an image or marketing problem if they were not

complete loner wierdos
groomed from a young age by suspect coaches
had to dress up like they are either working on a cruise ship or going to a birthday party for 9 year old girls
have oddball pushy parents
totally disliked at school
posh
utterly self obsessed
boring wankers
the sort of people who storm off crying as kids if they lose a board game and start hyperventilating in their mums arms for an hour until they calm down while all the other kids look on bemused


for a start.

Absolutely. Let's face it, Wimbledon is nothing more than The Last Night Of The Proms with rackets. Same wierdo, nationally-embarrassing crowd.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

All this anti All England Club vitriol is all well & good, but just WHAT do we call that sodding hill-thingy that all the plebs sit on? Henman Hill; Murray Mound; or FUCKTARDS SLOPE??

 

[Mackenzie]

FUCKTARDS SLOPE??

 

[vegster]

All this anti All England Club vitriol is all well & good, but just WHAT do we call that sodding hill-thingy that all the plebs sit on? Henman Hill; Murray Mound; or FUCKTARDS SLOPE??

Harpie's Hill

Slapper's Slagheap

Dope's Dome

Munter's Mound

Poofter's Peak

Squealer's Stack

ad infinitum.....

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

miserable fuckers.

Cos like - only footy fans know how to show support.

Good to see people enjoying themselves.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Oh, & while I'm at it: what exactly IS the f***ing point of John Lloyd??

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Oh, & while I'm at it: what exactly IS the f***ing point of John Lloyd??

He was put on the Earth to scrath Chrissy Evetts Itch and open squash clubs and that.

 

[clapham_gull]

It's utter s*t.

Infested with chinless "amateurs" running it, absolutely no surprise at all we are so rubbish at it.

You get the impression that the players would actually prefer the crowd wasn't there.

Wimbledon is a national embarressment (up there with the last night of the proms)

 

[Mackenzie]

miserable fuckers.

Cos like - only footy fans know how to show support.

Good to see people enjoying themselves.

No problem with any other sport, I'll even sit through dressage, swimming and golf....but tennis, come on

 

[pasty]

YAY - Another Wimbledon standard just occured. One of the men crashing into a ball girl knocking her flying and then giving her a cuddle.

Oh, and these commentators are actually worse than ITV creaming themselves over Barcelona when it comes to Federerererer

 

[perseus]

Twats is an understatement


(Eric Clapton and Martin Sharp)
Twice upon a time in the valley of the tears
The auctioneer is bidding for a box of fading years
And the elephants are dancing on the graves of squealing mice.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?

And the ice creams are all melting on the streets of bloody beer
While the beggars stain the pavements with flourescent Christmas cheer
And the Bentley driving guru is putting up his price.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?

And the prophets in the boutiques give out messages of hope
With jingle bells and fairy tales and blind colliding scopes
And you can tell they're all the same underneath the pretty lies.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?

The yellow Buddhist monk is burning brightly at the zoo
You can bring a bowl of rice and then a glass of water too
And fate is setting up the chessboard while death rolls out the dice.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Oh, and these commentators are actually worse than ITV creaming themselves over Barcelona when it comes to Federerererer

He is the Barcelona of tennis. Actually he is probably better than that. Best to turn the sound down.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

What is going on on ITV?? They've got bloody ANDREW CASTLE doing a rubbish quiz show!!

Sake.

 

[Easy 10]

The LTA is a completely self-serving organisation that has no interest in grass-roots tennis or in honing even a semi-decent British player, which is why the Brits are routinely humiliated year in, year out at our own Major. As long as the stuffed shirts in straw boaters are COINING it from their annual jamboree, they couldn't give a f*** about anything else.

The rest of the world must be laughing their socks off at the hapless Brits every year at this tournament. It IS embarrassing.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I love it that the BBC use all the crap old British players to summarise, no matter how much of a national embarrassment they were in their days on court. Virginia Wade: fair enough. And Sue Barker, while she never fails to make me want to chew my own ears off, at least reached the final of a Grand Slam once, I believe.

But as for the men, I mean, Mark Petchey knows as much about winning Wimbledon as I do, while that one who has a face like Beaker from the Muppets should stick to Strictly Come Dancing or GMTV. It's the equivalent of using a Forest Green Rovers player to work alongside Motty at the FA Cup final.

The only one worth listening to is John McEnroe, not least because he's realistic about Andy Murray's chances of winning- ie he's a viable candidate at this point but his name certainly isn't written on the trophy yet.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Sue Barker won a Grand Slam. Respect to Sue.

 

[clapham_gull]

"Wimbledon is Wimbledon," says Sue Mappin, with a note of resignation in her voice. "It is very successful, and it would take an awful lot to change.

"But if they had a children's day - like they do in the Roland Garros [French Open] - that would help. But in France, the majority of the crowd are tennis players. At Wimbledon, the spectators see Wimbledon as part of their 'summer season'."



Sue Mappin, executive director of The Tennis Foundation


BBC NEWS | Magazine | Can tennis be made less middle class?

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The LTA is a completely self-serving organisation that has no interest in grass-roots tennis or in honing even a semi-decent British player, which is why the Brits are routinely humiliated year in, year out at our own Major. As long as the stuffed shirts in straw boaters are COINING it from their annual jamboree, they couldn't give a f*** about anything else.

The rest of the world must be laughing their socks off at the hapless Brits every year at this tournament. It IS embarrassing.

Don't disagree with much of that - except even the LTA know the benefits to British tennis of having decent British players. They just seem incapable of investing the money in the way it is required.

But lots of good people both play and follow the game. And go to Wimbledon.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Sue Barker won a Grand Slam. Respect to Sue.

Did she, fair enough. I knew she'd vaguely achieved something, unlike most British players.

I presume it was the French Open. Mainly because her face still appears to be tinted with Roland Garros clay...

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

- that would help. But in France, the majority of the crowd are tennis players. At Wimbledon, the spectators see Wimbledon as part of their 'summer season'."
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The only people I know that go to Wimbledon are players. Simply because the clubs distribute a lot of the tickets.

I don't disagree with getting rid of the free-loaders. Including the Royal Box.