So Did Andy Murray Cheat?

[DTCwordfan]

His match against Seppi and he goes down, claiming a Trapezium injury and, lo, treatment finished, he then destroys the opposition, break back and 6-1.....come on MacMurray, you are better than that.

[ToraToraTora]

he learnt it off Djocavic!

[Ken4155]

A couple of months back, when Novak Djokovic (note the spelling, TTT) did it, he was labelled a cheat by some on here. Now it's the Scot, Murray, who is doing it, it is "gamesmanship". Time to make your minds up, people, before you are accused of being hypcritical:-/

[ToraToraTora]

It's a bit un sportsman like but feigning injury is not cheating. Footballers do it all the time jockovich is famous for it.

[Ken4155]

Cast your minds back to Murray's early career, he was feigning injury almost every match he played. Said it was cramp and that may be so. Strange, though, that it only ever materialised when he was losing.

[jim360]

People always trot out the "only hurt when he's losing" line, and I am not going to argue that it does often look that way, but why is this surprising? I am no sportsman but notice a similar phenomenon in my own life, namely that things always seem worse if you are in a bad mood and better if you are happy -- and this also holds when it comes to physical experience. I expect it's the same for any sports player. When they are losing it's harder to ignore the negatives or any physical issues, and if things are going well then they can find it easier to be positive. It's just far more visible is all.

[Ken4155]

Totally agree jim. The point i was trying to make was that gamesmanship is not a phenomenon that has suddenly cropped up in sport. Remember Ali's split glove antics v Henry Cooper back in the dim and distant. Everyone's at it - bar the totally naive - to one extent or another.

[douglas9401]

While we're in grammar and spelling police mode, Ken, it's 'hypocritical'.

[Ken4155]

Douglas; the section of my keyboard where the 'o', 'p' '(' & ')' are very often does not register. I sometimes have to tap the keys several times before the letter appears in the text and some posts can take an age to type out and i have to check my wording very carefully. I obviously failed to do do on this occasion and it must have been obvious to you that it was a 'typo':-) I was once reprimanded on the RUK Racing Forum when i missed the 'o' from the word account.

[douglas9401]

Perfickly oblivious, fank ewe.