Tennis hooligans
Jan 18th 2010 | 8:58 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
However I feel that there should be rules as to how much a player can yell on court because it affects the opponent's performance directly. Even I lose my concentration when the opponent says a word like "sh*t", "yeeeh" and end up making unforced error.
Jan 18th 2010 | 10:22 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
Are they? They might be, but I haven't seen this confirmed by anyone. Either way, it's irrelevant. They've made it clear where their true loyalties lie. They're not attacking the Czechs because Australians have a grudge against Czechs. They're attacking the Czechs because they're Croats with a grudge against Czechs.
Of course they're Australians. But they're Croat Australians. The whole problem stems from Croatian antipathy towards Czechoslovakia. It does not stem from Australian antipathy towards Czechoslovakia.
That's why - and follow me closely here - the only people causing this trouble are people from the Croatian community.
Of course they're Australians. But they're Croat Australians. The whole problem stems from Croatian antipathy towards Czechoslovakia. It does not stem from Australian antipathy towards Czechoslovakia.
That's why - and follow me closely here - the only people causing this trouble are people from the Croatian community.
As far as I am concerned the press don't need to say they are Australians. It's a given.
Jan 18th 2010 | 10:39 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
Ok, well if the subject is only tennis then there was the episode with the Serbs 3 years ago and also the Cypriots the year Baghdatis got to the final. Either way his statement that it is ONLY ever the Croats is incorrect.
Jan 18th 2010 | 10:57 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
I think he is talking about this episode. Maybe he got confused or is not going back that far. Bunch of wankers in any case. Send them off to the soccer where they belong!
Jan 19th 2010 | 11:57 am
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Jan 19th 2010 | 12:31 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
This does raise an interesting question as Australia and Australians claim to have a true melting pot of cultures and people and also, supposedly the most accepting of these different cultures. Yet, when these nasty incidents occur they are no longer Aussies, instead they are all pigeon-holed as Lebanese, Croatians, Serbs, Greeks, Cypriots etc etc.
Jan 19th 2010 | 12:55 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
True, you have to watch a few episodes of Fat Pizza to realise this. These various flavours of [sic] "wog" often refer to anglo/celtic people as "skips" which is perjorative. (comes from skippy as in the bush kangaroo)
Jan 19th 2010 | 1:31 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
I was on an escalator (standing on the left) in sydney and some guy said "out of the way f**king skip" ... i just looked a him and his laughing mates and they simply went around me and on their way.. I wonder if I'm the only person in Oz to be called at some time in my life both "wog" and "skip" as an insult..
Jan 19th 2010 | 2:20 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
Regardless of what race anyone is, the darned umpire needs to tell them all to
shut the hell up.
Listening to everyone in the crowd screaming and shouting whilst the players try to concentrate is a pain in the arse and it ruins the match.
And Lleyton Hewitt should try wearing tennis clothes instead of soccer strip... plonker. At least he's taken that dumb hat off.
Now y'all just shut the hell up!
Don't you know the tennis is on?
shut the hell up.
Listening to everyone in the crowd screaming and shouting whilst the players try to concentrate is a pain in the arse and it ruins the match.
And Lleyton Hewitt should try wearing tennis clothes instead of soccer strip... plonker. At least he's taken that dumb hat off.
Now y'all just shut the hell up!
Don't you know the tennis is on?
Jan 19th 2010 | 10:30 pm
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Re: Tennis hooligans
Regardless of what race anyone is, the darned umpire needs to tell them all to
shut the hell up.
Listening to everyone in the crowd screaming and shouting whilst the players try to concentrate is a pain in the arse and it ruins the match.
And Lleyton Hewitt should try wearing tennis clothes instead of soccer strip... plonker. At least he's taken that dumb hat off.
Now y'all just shut the hell up!
Don't you know the tennis is on?
shut the hell up.
Listening to everyone in the crowd screaming and shouting whilst the players try to concentrate is a pain in the arse and it ruins the match.
And Lleyton Hewitt should try wearing tennis clothes instead of soccer strip... plonker. At least he's taken that dumb hat off.
Now y'all just shut the hell up!
Don't you know the tennis is on?
My wife converted me to tennis. Watching it.
