Andy Murray

Andy Murray was still just a boy with a man’s arse when he said what he said back then. Although things are nowhere near as bad now, back when AM was growing up, and even more so when I was growing up in the ‘60s and ‘70s, there was a lot to get riled about in terms of the heavily Anglo-centric language and output of the London based UK broadcast media, most notably its sports coverage. It might seem trivial to the English members amongst us who were not on the receiving end of this behaviour, but I believe that having an onslaught of broadcasts beamed and transmitted into our homes that treated the whole country as England and England as if it were the whole country, with any mention of Scotland or Scottish interests, if they were even mentioned at all, coming as an afterthought and with a clear switch of presenter attitude and of language from 1st person plural to 3rd person plural, was a key reason why seeds of anti-English resentment took root amongst so many of my fellow young Scots at that time, long before any of us developed overtly political opinions. While most Scots were and are understandably a bit prickly whenever we encounter examples of such behaviour, those amongst us who were able to recognise, however irksome it might be, that this stuff is ultimately unimportant in the grand scheme of things, learned to shrug this off in adulthood (as AM has obviously been able to do). However, for others, sadly, those seeds that I describe above were too often the start of something that grew and morphed into full-blooded anti-English resentment, dominated their political leanings, and  provided willing new recruits to the separatist movement. If that all seems a bit far-fetched then consider this i.e. the shabby coverage of Scottish interest and Scotland’s competitors in the Commonwealth Games in 1978 by the English based UK media that was beamed into homes across Scotland apparently incensed our current First Minister so much at the time that it motivated him to go out and join the SNP when he was just a 15 year old kid.

You'll have to explain your intervention. Once again your efforts make no sense. Why should a Scot have to support England? 

You'll have to explain your intervention. Once again your efforts make no sense. Why should a Brit have to support fellow Brits?

Started so well is all I can say about that outburst. The rest, pure rubbish as always

There is no explanation required because your question is spurious and because, in any case, it has already been answered in another recent thread. The relevant point is not why a Scot should support England but what supporting everyone and anyone England plays against tells us about that particular Scot.