Andy Murray; Scottish and British

I think my brain may be boiling in liquid rage inside my head.

Andy Murray is a Scottish man. He plays tennis. When he plays tennis, he is playing for Britain. When Greg Rusedski played tennis, he was playing for Britain. When Tim Henman played tennis, he was playing for Britain. No English people kicked off about that. Why is it that Scottish people are sitting on their haunches, just waiting for someone to call him British so that they can pounce up and yell,

"SCOTTISH WHEN HE'S LOSING, BRITISH WHEN HE'S WINNING"?

I just do not believe that the above is true. My doubts were backed up in Will Sturgeon's blog, "the UK media reported on Andy Murray predominantly as a "Scot" a grand total of 1,290 times. Meanwhile he was reported as being predominantly a "Brit" just 96 times, according to Google News". The blog does to go on to say that the term "British" does outweigh "Scottish" when describing him.. Possibly because he is and always has been playing for Britain.

The fact is, every time he wins, he wins for Britain, because the team he plays for is Britain. Just like when Sir Chris Hoy won gold at the Olympics. Just like when Phil "The Power" Taylor throws one hundred and eighty. Just like when Jenson Button wins in.. The car thing that he does. They are all, in those situations, playing for Great Britain. I don't hear any Scots saying, "Jenson Button; British when he's winning, English when he's losing".

As a proud Scot, I am extremely proud that Andy Murray is Scottish. As a proud Brit, I am proud that Andy Murray is British.

We know why the Scottish are so protective over Andy Murray; because we very rarely get any sporting glory at all. Sir Chris Hoy did us proud at the 2008 Olympics and damn we can't half curl - in the Winter Olympics 2010 Rhona Martin led a team of Scottish women to a gold in curling - but generally, we don't bring home many trophies with little sports people on top and unfortunately, our English neighbours bring home a lot more than us! There is also the sneaking suspicion that Murray would much prefer to be playing for Scotland rather than Britain.

But unless we are prepared to give back Button, Haye, Ennis, 'Power' Taylor, Idowu, Eddie the Eagle and Hamilton (bad example, nobody wants Hamilton), then we are going to have to share Murray, Baker, Hoy and yes, even our curling team.

.. What we really need is Murray to play in the Commonwealth Games! Then we can sit, poised, ready to castrate anyone who calls him British.