So, im sat here in front of my tv watching the Wimbledon final.
The final is Roger Federer vs Andy Murray and what annoys me, is that Murray has the whole nation behind him, and yet we all know that this will not end in a British victory. We will be disappointed.
There has always been a joke, that when Murray is playing well he is "British" and when he loses he quickly reverts to being "Scottish", and i am all for that diagnosis, but the 'plucky' Brit will never be able to beat the suave and cool Europeans such as the Swiss Roger Federer.
What we need is steroids. its the only way. Why don't we pump all our sports men and women full of steroids and let them go around the world beating the shit out of our foreign counterparts?
we could win Wimbledon, the world cup, the 100m and even the tour de France!
This is not madness, in fact it is the exact obvious, it is raw patriotism and i think that this is something the nation on the whole is rather lacking.
Yes, we fill up Wimbledon with our tweed jackets and frilly hats eating strawberry's and cream. But there is no passion. Gone are the days when a crowd of Brits would storm the pitch on victory and when pub landlords would offer free ale to those who had come to there establishment to celebrate a British victory.
I don't care if we become the leading nation for scrabble and chess, but i just want all the hype that we give to our sports people to be worth the effort!
..if you were wondering, in the time it took me to write the above, Andy Murray has lost another two games. Stupid Scotsman.
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