At Last!
 

The long, long wait is finally over and we have a British Men's Singles Wimbledon Champion at last - well done Andy Murray, you played a blinder. I think coming back from his despair at being the runner-up last year to beat Roger Federer for Olympic Gold was a real turning point in his career.

Some thanks must also go to Del Potro for putting Djokovic through that epic semi-final, it must have taken an enormous amount out of him and even his almost superhuman powers of recovery weren't quite enough. There were no excuses from him, though, he was very gracious in defeat and it was lovely to see his mother hugging and congratulating Judy Murray.

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So we can all now ignore the men's singles for another 77 years!

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Roll on the Footie Season. ;)

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A fantastic performance from Andy Murray who has worked so hard to get to the top, and from humble beginnings too. It makes you proud to be British. Even when living in foreign fields.

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TBH i didn't think he would do it.
we have had so many get so far but not far enough over the last 77 years

this is probably, in recent times anyway, that the sense of winning has to some extent been knocked out of our kids. I remember my daughter not having a school sports day because the head teacher felt it unfair there would be losers and winners.

many people are now in jobs where any initiative, a desire to expand and win, is squashed by small minded management frightened for their own jobs.

a good result and I trust that the UK can build and develop a stronger winning ethic from it, as well as the Olympics.
perhaps including those who didn't quite make it because the other guy was that little bit better than them on the day. At least they were there and tried.
:thumbsup:

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Fact of the matter is we spent so many years showing the World what great sports and good losers we are that it almost came to be the norm.

Nice to see we've finally snapped out of it and are giving at least as good as we get in quite a number of sports where we were previously content to simply participate.