Televising Wimbledon Annoyances (and discussing the tournament itself)

[Belly]

I like watching most sports on TV and look forward to Wimbledon single matches.

One thing which really annoys me is towards the end of a match, especially towards the end of the tournament, is the continual flicking between the player and someone known to the player ie, coach, mother, sister, rabbi, physic guru, psychiatrist, prodigal son, etc etc. It certainly doesn’t make the match any more exciting to me.

Another thing is the continual presence of Virginia (very posh) Wade lording it in an esoteric manner as if she’s the fountain of all knowledge and still playing at the highest level. For goodness sake she last won Wimbledon in 1977.

 

[Belly]

I think Michael Bay could make an awesome Wimbledon trailer.

Best you can hope for tennis wise is Cliff Richard - OMG!

One of my heroes, Robert Plant has been known to play a bit of tennis..... When he's NOT handling fish of course.

 

[Belly]

Indeed she lost to our own Heather Watson

Yes well played Heather. She has announced that she has had death threats on social media. Unbelievable and really cruel to a young lady who has everything to live for.

Me and the wife think Heather's a lovely girl and it's a pity that such trolls don't get off their backsides and do something in life for which the rest of the country could be proud of. Heather has already made many people proud. I'm proud of her.

What's our population in GBR about 60 million? Around half of them are women and she's the best in her chosen field and people can threaten her life?

 

[Belly]

It's not about wanting to actually kill her, it's about wanting to make her feel the same sort of pain they do. It's pretty tragic, to be honest.

You might be right there Cheesyboy but I expect some of the trolls don't actually feel any pain and get some perverted pleasure from posting such remarks. Actually I have a mental image of them.

Bring back the stocks and pillories!