Sportsmen as Role Models

[Tal]

An interesting debate, reignited, perhaps oddly, by David Lloyd, who has criticised Andy Murray for not doing enough for grassroots tennis.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-3328742/Andy-Murray-doesn-t-British-tennis-blasts-David-Lloyd.html

Is there anything better for getting young people interested in sport than people from their own country winning trophies on TV?

Is there an additional responsibility on these elite superstars to roll their sleeves up and promote their sport directly, coach, appear at events or anything inbetween?

I'm not on about the extreme stuff where sportsmen break the law, but should people who want to get on with their life and do their best in their job face criticism for getting it as quietly as they can?

[Doobs]

Delete this thread already.  The whole paper is meant to just piss people off as is this article.  Fella is playing in the Davis Cup right now ffs.  Concentrate on that.   He shouldn't be in Manchester helping some poor kid from developing a drug habit.