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Which, interestingly, takes up as much time, monopolises our screens
I don't recall there being a season of tennis which takes up more and more of the year in the same way as the football season seems to have extended to do. Wimbledon is on every single year though, unlike the mega-spectacle of the World Cup and European Championship.
and involves, if anything, an even more ludicrous pursuit, since it is not even sociable.
An intriguing point - do pubs get filled with raucous tennis fans groaning on every dropped ball and cheering each match point made? Do people gather at each others' homes with alcohol and sit and watch the match?
For that matter, can the Enlgand flags in cars be recycled to support, say, Tim Henman, in some manner?
However, since the contestants and the supporters tend to come from middle-class backgrounds rather than working-class backgrounds, I doubt we'll be able to get quite so much of an abreaction from Barbelith, eh?
You could be right. So who wants to start a "Wimbledon: Je n'aime pas!" thread then? (I don't yet because I can't summon the invective right now, having just returned from Wales, where oddly enough there were no little English flags seen fluttering from cars, and only the odd few Welsh ones - which would probably have been flying anyway) |
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