Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Has done it , following on from his Olympic gold he has now got his first grand slam win, he even nearly smiled
Audere est facere.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well this tops off an incredible summer for British sport. I believe the match lasted nearly five hours so some considerable stamina required...not to mention a steely determination. First British win since Fred Perry in 1936. They used to play those days in long trousers..so its going back a bit.
How can we top this off now...England going on to win the World Cup!!??
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Well gone to Andy,
maybe Wimbledon next summer.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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feasted on haggis,neeps and taties afterwards,with a fine malt whisky to wash it all down.thats the way to go.well done andy.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes at last he has done it,and great to see it in my lifetime, he must now be the world no1. And we have not seen that before in our lifetime.And also it will be a big help to the youger players coming up, they now can see with lots of hard work you can get to the top, and all that goes with it,ie the money side of it, but with Andy it was not about that,he was very rich years before he made it to the top spot, it was about the years of hard work and the very long hrs on court in just keeping fit and geting a better player. Well done to him,and I am also happy for all his fans that follow him around the world and his family.
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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Great one Andy and a fitting finish to a great summer of sport but PaulB even I am not that brave,
England for the World Cup, mmmmay be,
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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great achievement to beat djokovic twice in succession. before the olympics it was said that murray was unlucky to play in the same era as federer, djokovic and nadal and would end up winning nothing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Awfully well done old chap, top-hole and all that. I'm frightfully-frightfully pleased.
It really is spiffing to be British, spiffing!
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Determination and skill has paid off, what a summer it has been to boost the UK.
What next - yes, come on football !!
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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The glorious summer of sport came to a shuddering halt last night as the footballers could not live up to the Olympian mark. Looks like Harry called it right above there..a dismal show and Ukraine almost stole it. Three or four minutes from the end saw England managing to get a penalty which they scored to produce a draw. No progress from the footballers on the world stage. Hodgson looked harassed and harangued. Is he too old for the job!? Guys like Pep Guardiola of Barcelona fame are the ace managers now...way way younger. But perhaps there is life in the old dog yet...time will tell.
Stops to ponder : when cockney lads (Ray Winstone ) go in for a curry now will they ask for an Andy Murray instead of a Ruby Murray? Very deep question this. The second question is..who remembers Ruby Murray??
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes I do great singer in her day, and at times she would sing with the Billy Cotten show band,and I saw her on stage in Dover years and years ago, or was it Folkestone,or was it Margate,or was it Canterbury any way it was in Kent.
Yes Harry they played like Dover do at home "RUBBISH"
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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You do all seem to be in such an 'Andy' to leap to your next fix, cheer-wise. Other people are allowed to be bolstered by success of their own too.
Too old, too Italian, too Danish, overpaid and all too likely to have reached their apogee at club level etc. etc. Why not give everybody else's team a three goal handicap lead if your team is so predestined to succeed?
[I wonder if this Murry plays football?...
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The forum he is on he could win on his own.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"More 'Andy' less speed." Victor?
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Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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Our international footballers are mostly sporting plankton in comparison to our brilliant Olympians, tennis players, golfers etc. Fey, spoilt, over-rated, overexposed, chippy, characterless, plodding, overpaid brats living in a bubble.
Ignore them - they'll only depress you - and concentrate on what we're good at.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you missed out cricket andrew, we were top of the pile until a few weeks back.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Funny, is it not, how it is 'we' when at the top and 'them' when not? I blame 'bodice-ripper' novelettes.
There's nothing precarious in the vicarious, I say.
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Well said Andrew Stucken.
Well put.
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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YES Mr Stucken the footballers could learn alot by just watching the others, and some if not most are unpaid.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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i must agree that these so called footballers are a bunch of nancy boys these days,bring back nobby styles and co, real footballers they where.
