tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post3058126222877305329..comments2024-03-19T07:34:16.716+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Scotland salutes you again, Andy - this time as the championJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-65464622582178240662012-08-07T17:53:26.546+01:002012-08-07T17:53:26.546+01:00Hi Marcia, I'm very well, thanks, how are you?...Hi Marcia, I'm very well, thanks, how are you? I listened to that interview on the internet, and the form of words he used was "in tennis we play for Great Britain, and I'm delighted to play for my country" - the implicit suggestion seemed to be that if he was in a sport where Scotland competed in its own right, he'd be equally happy to play for his country in that form. He then went on to say "I haven't forgotten my roots, I love Scotland" - to be honest, that sounded like the sort of thing an American golfer with distant Scottish ancestry might say, but I'm sure he didn't mean it that way!<br /><br />It's hard to escape the impression that London PR people have sat him down and told him it would be prudent to emphasise his Britishness and downplay his Scottishness, perhaps to help with the crowd at Wimbledon. If Scotland became independent, it wouldn't entirely surprise me if there were siren voices in his ear urging him to "do a Peter Nicol" - after all, Nicol's attitude was that "I feel British, so I might as well play for England", which kind of underlines the point that Doug made earlier. However, hopefully that would be a step too far for Murray.<br /><br />Tris, I should probably make clear that it wasn't a direct quote from the PB Tories - it was my own 'creative reimagining'! What Plato actually said was something like "he didn't HAVE to hold the flag, he didn't HAVE to sing the anthem - he did BOTH. He's not your poster boy!" The irony being that the only people who ever claimed that Murray was a poster boy for Scottish independence were his vicious, paranoid critics in the London press (notably Tony Parsons). We just regard him as a hero for all Scots, unionist and nationalist.<br /><br />What Plato said reminded me of the PB Tories' jubilation - literal jubilation - at Chris Hoy's tears when God save the Queen played in his honour four years ago in Beijing. From which we can presumably infer that Murray's lack of tears means that he's not quite as British as Hoy is. That's how fatuous this stuff gets.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-5722234872046310502012-08-06T22:24:35.372+01:002012-08-06T22:24:35.372+01:00Do English Tories really believe that Scots wish t...Do English Tories really believe that Scots wish to attack Kate Middleton with claymores?<br /><br />What a very peculiar lot they are.<br /><br />I see to remember that someone tried to attack Mrs Parker Bowles with some sort of stick when she and prince Charles [somewhat stupidly in my opinion] went for a drive through the middle of student riots some two years ago now.<br /><br />As the demonstrators were, by and large, English students protesting about the English part of the UK government raising their fees by 200% overnight, while the story in Scotland was "no change to tertiary education funding", it's reasonable, or at least not unreasonable to suppose that the attacker of Mrs PB was, in fact, an Englishman.<br /><br />I don't remember a single incidence of a Scot being involved in any attacks on members of the Windsor family.<br /><br />As I said, what a bizarre lot English Tories are. (Maybe Scottish Tories too. I don't know. I've only ever met one, briefly.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-43031518295696964722012-08-06T22:19:53.596+01:002012-08-06T22:19:53.596+01:00I trust you are well, I see you have been doing st...I trust you are well, I see you have been doing sterling missionary work on PB whilst I was away. :)<br /><br /><br />Someone put this on Newsnet Scotland:<br /><br />I heard Glen Campbell asking Murray live on the programme the notorious. . <br /><br />'have you stopped beating your mother' <br />question, it was relating to whether he was Scottish / British etc etc. <br /><br />Murray gave the expected answer <br /><br />"he was proud to represent his country as part of team GB"<br /><br />- quite a clever reply.Marcianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-4862264081201360772012-08-06T19:40:12.758+01:002012-08-06T19:40:12.758+01:00Watchin Andy walk round the court with the union j...Watchin Andy walk round the court with the union jack draped over his shoulder after winning, as part of teamGB he was proud to wear it but what he did very subtly was pull the blue part of the flag up to his mouth and kiss it. To me that was him saying how special Scotland is to him.ElaineSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-48931726481232247512012-08-06T18:42:03.718+01:002012-08-06T18:42:03.718+01:00James
What I always have difficulty with is just ...James<br /><br />What I always have difficulty with is just why Andy or any other Scottish sportsman or woman should deprive themselves of the chance to compete at the Olympics, because we are tied to a union that is long past its sell by date.<br /><br />What we really should be angry about is the rest of the sports people of Scotland who are denied a place at the Olympics they would have had if Scotland was an independent nation.<br /><br />Doug too true.Dubbiesidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14351210091827242674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-53421215583099281912012-08-06T17:58:50.681+01:002012-08-06T17:58:50.681+01:00These comments from PB are more proof that you'...These comments from PB are more proof that you're not really British unless you're English.<br /><br />No English tennis player would have to prove that they were British or be viewed as, "not one of us", until they had proved their loyalty.<br /><br />For these people on PB Britain is just Greater England which extends from Shetland to the Scilly Isles but unfortunately also incorporates some indigenous non-English.<br /><br />It's also why Unionist Scots are so fanatically British. They're not born to it but have to prove it with loyalty for the rest of their lives.DougtheDughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952281599715356995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-13638422440198237192012-08-06T15:20:33.331+01:002012-08-06T15:20:33.331+01:00My guess is that he's simply a really committe...My guess is that he's simply a really committed team player, who identifies strongly with the team he's playing for. He'd be exactly the same if it was Team Scotland.<br /><br />And quite honestly, if I'd just reached the pinnacle of my career and an anthem was playing in my honour, I have a feeling I'd at least be tempted to hum along, regardless of the tune.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-69802160963206340382012-08-06T14:40:43.347+01:002012-08-06T14:40:43.347+01:00James
When Andys brother Jamie got married both o...James<br /><br />When Andys brother Jamie got married both of them wore kilts. Where does that fit into the YUKAY narrative.Dubbiesidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14351210091827242674noreply@blogger.com