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Henmania no more
By Will 2 months ago, No Comments; be the first!
Regular readers will know of my unashamed (yet entirely unreasonable) dislike of Henmania and the man behind it all. It’s not that our Tim was no good. He was very good indeed, but he chose the biggest matches to completely and utterly bottle it. This is my frustration. Here was a middle-class, quietly spoken, affable sort of chap with the limpest “come on!” gesture in tennis, and one of the best volleyists in the game, who on occasion made your Dad look really very good with a racquet in his hands.
Anyway, I’m delighted to hear our Tim is back on our screens under the guise of a commentator. Oh good. Not content with boring us with his only-occasional excellence on the court, we’re now victim to his banal (and, so far at least) and extremely dull opinions off it. At least McEnroe shoots from the hip. Our Tim hasn’t got a hip to shoot from, let alone a gun.
Worst of all, we are denied one of summer’s greatest sights: our Tim’s dad, snoozing and clearly roaringly drunk in the box. That, and our Tim’s lovely wife (whose family happen to “holiday” in the village my Mum lives in. They don’t much like the pub, apparently).
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