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RIP Murray Walker @ 97
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RIP Murray Walker @ 97
Murray Walker: A legend with effervescent enthusiasm
BBC Sport
Legend is a word bandied around all too easily, but it is a completely appropriate description of Murray Walker.
BBC Sport
Legend is a word bandied around all too easily, but it is a completely appropriate description of Murray Walker.
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Re: RIP Murray Walker @ 97
nah I don't think it is.XFool wrote:Legend is a word bandied around all too easily, but it is a completely appropriate description of Murray Walker.
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Re: RIP Murray Walker @ 97
kempiejon wrote:nah I don't think it is.XFool wrote:Legend is a word bandied around all too easily, but it is a completely appropriate description of Murray Walker.
Oh yes it is
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Re: RIP Murray Walker @ 97
When I was a schoolboy, I remember listening to the TT races, late 1940s, and it would be "Over to Murray on the Mountain". He was just the same then.
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I was watching some BTCC highlights from the 90s a couple of weeks ago and it had the classic clip of 2 Toyotas taking each other out with the Murray comment of "the car on it's roof is a Toyota!" Still makes me laugh 20+ years later!
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Re: RIP Murray Walker @ 97
He may well be a legend in motor sports. Good luck to him if he is. Motor sports has always seemed to me to be a rather over hyped kids game.
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Dod101 wrote:He may well be a legend in motor sports. Good luck to him if he is. Motor sports has always seemed to me to be a rather over hyped kids game.
Dod
Murray Walker never took himself seriously. He was an enthusiast. I think it was his enthusiasm for commentating that I shall remember. That and the thought that at any moment out would come another comical comment.
Here are just a few.
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Snorvey wrote:Dod101 wrote:He may well be a legend in motor sports. Good luck to him if he is. Motor sports has always seemed to me to be a rather over hyped kids game.
Dod
All sports are over hyped kids games.
Yes, my friend once referred to the game of table tennis as "ping pong" to a professional table tennis player. That went down a treat. And the correct name for baseball is rounders, obviously.
I'm sure there must be more examples...
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Mike4 wrote:Snorvey wrote:Dod101 wrote:He may well be a legend in motor sports. Good luck to him if he is. Motor sports has always seemed to me to be a rather over hyped kids game.
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All sports are over hyped kids games.
Yes, my friend once referred to the game of table tennis as "ping pong" to a professional table tennis player. That went down a treat. And the correct name for baseball is rounders, obviously.
I'm sure there must be more examples...
If you haven't seen this it's worth a watch
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_Pong_(2002_film)
I also heard that snooker and darts might be sports?
- I know they take some skill... but so does keeping the stream in the bowl and the Olympics has yet to come calling
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Re: RIP Murray Walker @ 97
servodude wrote:
If you haven't seen this it's worth a watch
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_Pong_(2002_film)
I also heard that snooker and darts might be sports?
- I know they take some skill... but so does keeping the stream in the bowl and the Olympics has yet to come calling
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Wasn't there an serious but unsuccessful attempt about three or four years ago to have chess accepted as an olympic sport?
On checking yes there was, AND they are at it again now!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ches ... SKCN1Q12N4
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Re: RIP Murray Walker @ 97
Mike4 wrote:Yes, my friend once referred to the game of table tennis as "ping pong" to a professional table tennis player. That went down a treat. And the correct name for baseball is rounders, obviously.
I'm sure there must be more examples...
Try telling a seven foot tall US basketball player that his sport is properly called netball. Or, indeed, tell an American football player that over here we play it without all that gimpy protective gear.
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Re: RIP Murray Walker @ 97
XFool wrote:Murray Walker: A legend with effervescent enthusiasm
BBC Sport
Legend is a word bandied around all too easily, but it is a completely appropriate description of Murray Walker.
His autobiography is excellent.
We should have a vigil in his memory, I gather Clapham is nice at this time of year, although obviously it would make sense to wait until it is no longer illegal
Paul
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