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AIBU?

To think Judy Murray deserves an OBE or some such?

21 replies

SwiftRelease · 22/07/2014 11:56

Like Andy??? Just been listening to Desert Island Discs and was so impressed. With relatively v few resources, she singlehanded nurtured the talent of both her boys, coached, encouraged, taxied around, saved to send to european tennis camps and now is busy with her academy start-up. All this from a fairly humble background, location quite remote from SE England-centric tennis set, the Henmans they were not.
And yet she is criticised for being a pushy mum rather than the consummate professional coach plus devoted mum she actually appears to be. Interestingly, she said she felt she got a lot more flak than a dad would in a similar situation.

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IHeartKingThistle · 22/07/2014 11:58

She does a lot for children too and I really like her website with ideas on how to keep kids active (can't remember what it's called though!)

YANBU

AuntieStella · 22/07/2014 12:00

How to nominate someone for an honour

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 22/07/2014 12:04

I think she's fantastic.

PandaNot · 22/07/2014 12:30

I think she's great but actually there are a lot of parents out there doing exactly the same thing with their talented children every single day. Very little is actually organised for them in any field, whether tennis, dancing or music.

SantanaLopez · 22/07/2014 12:33

YANBU. MIL knows her vaguely and couldn't speak highly enough of her.

Dunblane must have affected her so badly as well.

SaucyJack · 22/07/2014 12:38

Erm, no. She did what she did for the sake of her son's career (and well done to the both- he seems quite good at hitting a ball over a net)- not for the greater good of society.

Bambambini · 22/07/2014 12:40

She is very involved in grass roots tennis - working at trying to get kids to play sport. She's not just Andy's mum.

Lottapianos · 22/07/2014 12:43

Well I'm no fan of the honours system so no to the OBE but I must say its nice to hear someone say positive things about her! All I usually read/hear about her is how hard-faced she looks, and how ambitious she is (like its a bad thing), and what a pushy mum she is, and how her and Andy's girlfriend hate each other's guts - all from people who don't know her from Adam. I admire her a lot and think she must be a very strong person.

SantanaLopez · 22/07/2014 12:44

If this isn't for the greater good of society, I don't know what is.

SwiftRelease · 22/07/2014 14:25

Indeed, she's a serious grafter, enthusiast and benefactor. Should really be celebrated and if she were a bloody man, would be!

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WorraLiberty · 22/07/2014 14:36

I think she's a great woman but no I don't agree she deserves an OBE for putting so much into her own family.

If they gave them for that reason, they'd be dishing them out to parents left, right and centre.

SwiftRelease · 22/07/2014 18:31

Not just her family though. Is trying to set ip an academy and is dedicated professional coach

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Rainbunny · 22/07/2014 19:55

I like her and I agree that she is very unfairly labeled as "pushy." I have never seen her on tv as anything other than polite and calm. She speaks directly which I think is a no nonsense Scottish mannerism, and a good one at that. Where the hell did the "pushy" label come from? Purely because her sons are professional tennis players and she coached them herself, so she MUST be pushy then, right? Very sexist.

As for deserving an OBE, well loads of people get honours for doing what they enjoy that made them happy, not necessarily for the "public good" Think of all those actors who get honours, so she isn't less deserving in that way.

Chippednailvarnish · 22/07/2014 20:20

I think she's great, I saw an interview with a tennaged Andy Murray who was being a typical mumbling, sulky boy and she was the first to laugh at his teenage strop. She's kept her family very grounded.

Chippednailvarnish · 22/07/2014 20:20

Tennage = teenage

CheapBread · 22/07/2014 20:36

And she loves cakes. I follow her on t'Twitter. I saw that Andy Murray documentary and she was talking about having to go to the school that day to wait and see of her sons were alive or not and it made me bloody well cry.

Picklepest · 22/07/2014 20:38

Get on with you "if was a man would be"! More likely " if she was liked she would be " really.

WaitMonkey · 22/07/2014 20:40

YANBU. I adore her. Bread, that made me . I also follow her on Twitter. She has some ridiculously good puddings.

WorraLiberty · 22/07/2014 20:42

Not just her family though. Is trying to set ip an academy and is dedicated professional coach

Then possibly for that reason, although I don't know enough about her coaching/academy setting up to know whether it warrants an OBE.

But most of your opening post was about her doing what many parents do, up and down the land.

SwiftRelease · 23/07/2014 10:16

Agree partly, but the level and dedication was something else.

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WatchingSeaMonkeys · 23/07/2014 10:21

Hmm, I would assume that the professional coaching has it's own (financial) rewards!!

Coaching Andy has not harmed her coaching career at all!!

While I see where you're coming from, I think there are probably hundreds, if not thousands of similar parents who are giving up just as much of their time to help their & others children for no reward at all.

So I'd have to say YABU I'm afraid....

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