I expect you’ve seen it by now, but my article was finally published in today’s Guardian.
As you know, I’m a coach supporting talented, underprivileged young players – and it’s no surprise so few of them make it to Wimbledon. But you’ll know that because I talk about it a lot.
Anyway, it would be great if you could read my article and let me know what you think. I spent ages on it.
8 comments on “Where are the Marcus Rashfords of British tennis? The truth is they’re still not welcome”
It’s about time. I proofread that back in 2018 so I’m glad it’s finally got its time in the sun.
Thanks mate. Your contribution was invaluable. I know you feel as strongly as I do about the Marcus Rashfords of British tennis or whatever.
There’s not a day that goes past that I’m not hanging out of a window banging on about the Marcus Rashfords of British Tennis or something. If it’s not that, it’s puffins, but it’s mostly that.
I tell you what, the years we’ve spent looking for the Marcus Rashfords of British Tennis, it’s high time we wrote about it in a major newspaper so other people could do the looking and we could have a rest. I’m knackered, and also a tennis coach.
Jesus, if someone else had taken up the mantle of looking for the Marcus Rashfords of British Tennis instead of you then think of all the things you could have done. All of them. Think of them all. That’s a lot, isn’t it?
That is a lot of things. I could probably have given up being a tennis coach, for a start, and taken up my true sporting passion which is kiteboarding.
You’ve never been happiest except when you’re kiteboarding. If you’re not out on that board attached to a kite (?) when the sun comes up then you’re a miserable sad sack all day. I’ve lived through that and hated every minute. Now, get out on that kiteboard, sir, and live your best life (?)
I’m not sure if it’s a sort of surfboard pulled by a kite, or if it’s a kite that you somehow ride like it’s a surfboard, but whatever it is, I’m all over that like a pro. In fact you can enjoy the thrills and spills for yourself in my upcoming Playstation game, “Chris Marshall’s Tony Hawk Pro Skater Except It’s Kiteboarding Not Skating and Tony Hawk Isn’t In It”.