Poor Sod

[poliphilo]

I read the other day that Andy Murray could now make as much as £100,000,000 in sponsorship deals etc. Ridiculous, isn't it? Everyone wants a piece of him. Stupid Alex Salmond (for example) unfurling his stupid Saltire (behind David Cameron's head) in the stupid Royal box. David Cameron himself, laying on a special reception at Number 10. My liking for Murray, which had gone up a bit, went back down to its previous level when I saw him pictured between a smirking Cameron and a guffawing Nick Clegg. I wish he'd had the bottle to turn down that invitation.

"Sorry chaps, but I'm a bit tired right now. Me and the girlfriend are going away for a week or two. Somewhere quiet. Maybe I'll do some fishing; I hear it works for Rafa." And why not? I can't believe he wants to be hobnobbing with the moral pygmies. But I guess his management will have told him he had to.

Between the practice and the playing and the keeping of his hangers-on in the manner to which they'd like to become accustomed I can't see him having much time to himself from now on.

How horrid to be a national hero.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

They're going on about giving him a knighthood.

He won a sports competition FFS, not a war!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'd abolish the honours system. I think it's corrupt and degrading.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

That's two of us then and I'd do away with honourary degress while I was at it- I believe it belittles and devalues what I and others like me who have such things had to work bloody hard for!

I agree with and respect Ralph Vaughan Williams for his stance on this- the only title he valued was his doctorate, which he'd earned and the reason he had no knighthood and was not Master of the King's Music and had no other titles was that he turned the lot down.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good for RVW!