tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post4032289097935997326..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: Different ways of losing - Andy Murray v. Theresa MayScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-90011035651167909742017-06-11T02:27:57.276+01:002017-06-11T02:27:57.276+01:00The British Lions also put in a gutsy performance ...The British Lions also put in a gutsy performance last night. <br />My kids want me to take them to see Wonder Woman the movie.Theresa May should be compelled to sit through it at least twice. southern mannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-31863980082724386402017-06-10T15:10:08.870+01:002017-06-10T15:10:08.870+01:00I know you're not a huge tennis fan, so I'...I know you're not a huge tennis fan, so I'd concentrate on the fifth set, especially as Wawrinka races to am 4-0 lead in an eye-blink. He's not the most demonstrative of players - in fact he usually looks as if he's just learned that the village where he lives has been destroyed in an earthquake - but even he's laughing at the improbable feats he's performing. <br /><br />Stan Smith, the lanky American Wimbledon champion, once caught me swearing and hitting a coca-cola dispenser at an indoor tournament in London. I explained it was refusing to disgorge the can of coke I'd paid for.<br /><br />"You sure you put money in?" <br /><br />"Of course!"<br /><br />"I don't know," he said. "You look like a pretty shifty character to me."<br /><br />A decent human being, especially compared to his contemporaries, Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase.<br /><br />Gove did a test for me as a political talk-show presenter at the BBC. I thought he was excellent, but, mysteriously, my request to use him was turned down by the brass. Really nice chap. Brillo asked him two weeks ago on air if this was the worst political campaign he'd ever seen. "No," he replied, "that would be my campaign to become Tory leader."Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-23542082251513163952017-06-10T07:29:33.717+01:002017-06-10T07:29:33.717+01:00I have no interest in tennis. The sign of a great ...I have no interest in tennis. The sign of a great sport journalist [like Michael Henderson versus the ghastly Simon Barnes] is that he triggers an interest in a sport amongst the unbelievers and engages you. I must now track down this Murray- Wawrinka game and watch it.<br /><br />Did you not once have an altercation with a famous American player also called "Stan" whose name I have forgotten?<br /><br />Moving seamlessly on. "Phillipe" Hammond!! The Victorian Undertaker. Nobody talks about Michael Gove anymore [back-stabber etc] - OK, a Scot, ghastly Lady Macbeth-type wife, a vast arse and eye-brow problems. But very able.<br /><br />SDGnoreply@blogger.com