To really dislike Andy Murray?

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I just can't warm to him, I've really tried but I just can't. I don't want him to win Wimbledon. AIBU and unpatriotic?

Also the best tennis player we have ever had, or likely will for years to come.

I posted because
A. It's my right
B. To highlight the mean-spirited nature of this thread

Maybe it just the stereotypical "Scottish dryness" - I think he is absolutely brill and very funny and personable.

I'm also Scottish though

I've watched approximately ten minutes of tennis sine Ivan Lendl retired, but what I find appealing in AM is his evident lack of interest and/or total inability to play the media game. No one has burnished his public persona for press conferences, and if anyone has given him lessons on how to appear generally appealing with driven-but-cute media soundbites, he certainly wasn't listening. He's someone who hits a ball over a net very well. He's clearly got no investment in being the Ambassador of Nice as well.

Yeah I'm pretty sure he won't be crying into his pillow because some internet people said they don't like him.

I really want to like him but I just can't warm to him.

Surely everybody has somebody they have an irrational aversion to?

Foolishly I'd forgotten what a feisty bunch inhabit AIBU

I think the thing is, he doesn't 'crack jokes'. People with a dry humour aren't 'jokers' generally but very funny. My favourite type of humour. But then I'm also a dour Scot.

I think he's not willing to pimp his life to the media, I love him for that.

YABU. I used him as an example to dd1 recently when She didnt win a singing contest. She said what was the point in entering the next year when it was obvious that other people were better and always would be. I pointed out that Andy Murray didnt win Wimbledon the first time he entered, and that for years people were sneery about his chances. But he kept working and entering, said nothing to his detractors and eventually won and is now seeded no 1.

I admire his work ethic and his determination. I dont need him to be a showbiz personality, and actually quite respect the fact that he isnt.

I'm no particular fan of Murray, but Team Federer?!

He's even more dull.

Shame, as he speaks very highly of you I hear, OP

Yabu. He's the only top male player that has advocated for equal pay for women players.

YABU.

He's very funny.
Very well mannered.
A real professional.

I wish more sportsmen were like him, he's a credit to himself.

He's not someone who courts the media, he just gets on with his training, lives his life with his wife and family and doesn't try to be a celeb.

He's very funny, and doesn't give a toss about his PR, which makes me warm to him! His comment about supporting any team playing England backfired because people didn't spot it was a joke, and he got a pasting when he decided to air his opinion on indyref (which I disagreed with, but he is entitled to think independently). So he has put his foot in it a few times, and doesn't bother trying to gush or sound animated because it doesn't come naturally. But why should he?! He's great at tennis, and clearly cares about it.
Good for him, and may he ever drone dourly and weep occasionally. I luffs him.

Oh FFS I did point out that anybody can post here, I didn't need it pointed out to me.

It's hardly mean spirited, I really doubt AM is going to be trawling MN for a bit of bedtime reading. I've even said I don't know why I can't warm to him.

I just don't like dour-ness and you can't deny he's dour

He comes across as charmless and dull.

Federer has less personality than Murray. He's a bit creepy with that fixed grin constantly on his face.

Give me Murray and his grumpy way anyday

@FantasticButtocks and why wouldn't he

You just have to look at you tube clips of exhibition matches to see him laughing and having a joke with the other players. He's serious when he plays matches and he is awkward when interviewed but why is that a reason to dislike him? He's well liked by other players on the tour. We've got a British player, won two Wimbledons a US Open an reached the finals of Grand slams numerous times and people don't like him because of his voice!

It's a bit of a strange thing to get semi-pasted for, but it is AIBU I suppose.

earless that's exactly what I was thinking. It's a strange thing to get so riled up about. But yeah it is AIBU

Nah, he's fab. I also like the fact that he really doesn't give a shit about what other people think of him! He alsp doesn't give a shit about cultivating some bollocks public persona to make him the pin up or the social media quote or the cute kid or the boy-done-good thing. He works bloody hard, adores his family, takes no shit and gives himself a harder time than anyone else ever good. He literally wins some and loses some but you can never ever fault his effort. Good for him.

To be quite frank, he should be the sports role model our kids look up to.

I have met Andy and his brother and they are both very nice young men who have wonderful family values.
Their sense of humour is very dry, typically Scottish but l can understand how it may seem a bit off to some people.
I just love him.
I also like Nadal so either of them l would be happy to see win Wimbledon.
Federer's head is so big l am surprised he can get it through the door in a morning and Djokovic tries too hard to be the joker and get everyone on his side.
However l am sure not one of them will be bothered by our opinions and we all can't like everybody.

I really want to like him but I just can't warm to him

He's actually pretty emotional, more so than the average Central Belt-ish male, I would think.

Why not go and google any of his greetin' clips and see if that doesn't thaw the ice caps?

He bubbled up a storm when he was presented with the freedom of the city (Stirling). I may have had something in my eye too.

This is the video which endeared him to me forever

I don't want him to win Wimbledon

Yes let's hope a hard-working British athlete loses a world-renound tournament on home soil just because he's a bit of an introvert. Wtf is wrong with you??