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Re: Wimbledon 2009
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Originally Posted by Derek S
On behalf of all my countrymen and women I'd like to apologise for not immediately recognizing the tremendous achievement of winning a World Cup thanks to a Russian linesman with dodgy eyesight. 
I assume the comments relate to his "I support Scotland and anyone playing England" remarks which have nothing whatsoever to do with tennis or has he made some other remark advocating the death penalty for anyone sounding a bit cockney? |
Here's the context of those 3 year old remarks Link
' Henman said: "The whole thing was ridiculous and in a way it was my fault - we were walking to the interview and I was joking with him because it was a World Cup year.
"I said, 'What are you going to do? It must be a nightmare because Scotland never qualify for anything.Your rugby has gone downhill, you don't have your own team in the Olympics - you might as well go on holiday for a couple of weeks'.
"It was all good fun and good banter. Andy was laughing and hitting back. He said, 'I don't care - I'll just support anyone who is playing England!' The journalist was with us as we were walking to do the interview and we then did a 45-minute interview and football, England-Scotland, was never even mentioned. But the next day's headline was, 'I'll support anyone playing England'.
"It was an absolute stitch-up and it was very disappointing'
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