Sad to admit but...

...i found myself buying a copy of The Sun today, it really is an awful paper and i feel dirty buying it. I can only say that i bought because i needed some small change for the bus and it was the cheapest option. In hindsight i should maybe have just bitten the bullet and paid that extra 30p above my fare home and just read the book i had in my bag instead. However there was principle involved, i hate those exact fare buses that don't give you change, i deeply resent giving them more than the fare costs and it's become a habit, i'd rather go and spend more than what it would cost elswhere if it means the bus company only gets the exact fare.

The thing is that the whole reason i felt compelled to even mention the incident is going to involve me breaking my promise not to mention Wimbledon, as it was the back page headline story that irked me. So i apologize for sullying this post with tennis talk but it's not really the actual story that is important but the way it's presented, it could easily have another topic the Sun was being xenophobic and small minded about.

As anyone thats followed the tournament will know Tim Henman has been knocked out and Scottish rookie Andrew Murray managed to beat the 14th seed Radek Stepanek to go through to the 3rd round and keep up British interest in the singles tournaments. He looks a promising player and he's done well to upset the odds in only his 6th professional tie or somethign like that. So yaay for him and well done. However the Sun can't resist reporting this success in it's usual style, not content with praising the young prospect for his success as Henman disappointingly goes out very early in the tournament, it declared that "Rookie Scot Murray overcame a dirty tricks campaign by Radek Stepanek to cruise into the third round as Britain's LAST hope."

I found myself watching a fair amount of the game, i'm not a fan but it was tea time nothing much else on etc. I don't recall seeing a dirty tricks campaign, and even the sun can only comment on the one incident after the lad Stepanek gets a huge amount of luck with his shot hitting the net and sneaking over saving a match point. So he walks over and taps the net in a mock thank you and the crowd laughs etc. That was the entirety of the dirty tricks campaign. Sure Murray was in a bit of a strop about it afterwards but he got his own back in a similar situation afterwords and had the final say when he wrapped up a straightforward win. Dishonest reporting thy name is The Sun.