Guess what, over in Aus you may love the commonwealth games and lawn bowls but here we concern ourselves with good sports and it is the case that in almost every individual sport that is capable of having a bit of public interest we support any Brit aside from ones which are contested only by Brits like darts or snooker.
I didn't bag Pattinson at all. Maybe because he played for faggy Nottingham I might take the piss but Pattinson could have been English and would have had the piss taken. He was completely undeserving of selection. So is Ian Bell and he gets the piss taken.
Quite frankly I really don't care about Murray. If he wins then good, well done, but the British tennis organization or whatever the hell it's called is a joke anyway. Djokovic is the man.
No we don't care about the Commonwealth Games or the Lawn Bowls (well some people do care about the Comm games but I don't) and personally I don't care much about the Olympics either.
In fact, one would say from this information that in the minor events England goes on its own, but that in the major ones it needs to borrow from the rest of the UK.
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Dean you been smoking something? No disrespect, but how the feck do you know what England/Scotland is like without actually living here? There are a few people who want Scotland independent from England, yet everyone in Britain (which does exist) wants people like Andrew Murray, Chris Hoy, Lewis Hamilton, David Coulthard to do well. I really am struggling to see what point you are trying to make?
The point I'm trying to make is one that you just strengthened - it's hypocritical that on the one hand you have people who are English or Scottish and hate the other country, but at the same time everyone jumps on the same bandwagon for tennis (but not football or cricket or rugby).
My point (for which I used a bit of exaggeration and humour in the first post to illustrate, but which has gone over the heads of some of you who have interpreted my calling Britain a made up land as a serious statement) is that you should have to choose, Britain or England or Scotland, not in politics but in sport. England is a country, as is Australia, as is New Zealand, as is Spain. The United Kingdom is a region, or sovereign state, but it is not a country in the same way that the aforementioned countries are. It's an unfair advantage, and hypocrisy unless you combine them in every sport.
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Dean you been smoking something? No disrespect, but how the feck do you know what England/Scotland is like without actually living here? There are a few people who want Scotland independent from England, yet everyone in Britain (which does exist) wants people like Andrew Murray, Chris Hoy, Lewis Hamilton, David Coulthard to do well. I really am struggling to see what point you are trying to make?
The point I'm trying to make is one that you just strengthened - it's hypocritical that on the one hand you have people who are English or Scottish and hate the other country, but at the same time everyone jumps on the same bandwagon for tennis (but not football or cricket or rugby).
My point (for which I used a bit of exaggeration and humour in the first post to illustrate, but which has gone over the heads of some of you who have interpreted my calling Britain a made up land as a serious statement) is that you should have to choose, Britain or England or Scotland, not in politics but in sport. England is a country, as is Australia, as is New Zealand, as is Spain. The United Kingdom is a region, or sovereign state, but it is not a country in the same way that the aforementioned countries are. It's an unfair advantage, and hypocrisy unless you combine them in every sport.
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Has anyone mentioned the fact that Andrew Symonds is from Birmingham yet?
He's about as English as Andy Murray is, he only lived there for 2 months.
