The official 'best tennis-related Morrissey/Smiths songs' thread

[simon]

My Dearest - Love

Stretch out and pray (I want the one I can't reach)

It's hard to hit the ball when you're small

The Slam Mums

 

[Andy Gray]

Bengali in Fila

 

[alcoholic afternoons]

On the centre court I ran

Roger fans hate it when Rafa become successful

I am hated for loving tennis

 

[speedfreaks ball]

spin your life

 

[speedfreaks ball]

death at ones tennis elbow

 

[Eraserhead]

I just want to see the ball boy happy

 

[CrystalGeezer]

The Dunlop

 

[[email protected]]

Morrissey - "These Things Take..."
Umpire - ".....TIME!"

 

[The Cat's Mother]

At Last I am Bjorn

EDIT: Goolagonglord!

EDIT 2: Ile N, it was Really Nothing

EDIT 3: I Know it's Navratilova

 

[Poppy Full]

The Boy With the Thorn In His Sidespin
Doubles Loves Me

 

[Deleted member 1074]

At Last I am Bjorn

Ok, that one is really funny.

 

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At Last I am Bjorn

EDIT: Goolagonglord!

EDIT 2: Ile N, it was Really Nothing

EDIT 3: I Know it's Navratilova

sheer genius!!!

 

[Eraserhead]

I want the win I can't have

 

[Shame]

Such A Little Spin Makes Such A Big Difference

Will Never Murray

Tennis Players (a play on Boxers, of course)

You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side (doesn't even need changing, sir. Not one bit)

The World Is Full Of Crashing Balls

And, of course, just Lost

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Will Never Murray

 

[Shame]

Glad to have entertained, Cat's Mother. I don't even like tennis, I only know who Murray is from Facebook statuses.

(Please, don't crucify me, tennis fans).

 

[Maurice E]

"Lob", she said
Half-volley a person
Lendl, e's in platforms

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Stretch Out and Wade

Yannick

On the Streets I Goran

The World Is Full of Crashing Boris

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Glad to have entertained, Cat's Mother. I don't even like tennis, I only know who Murray is from Facebook statuses.

(Please, don't crucify me, tennis fans).

My tennis knowledge truncates abruptly at about 1980 when I left home and didn't have to sit through my mum's annual Wimbledon addiction. Still trying to work McEnroe. Connors, Evert and King into song puns.


EDIT: Never Had No-One Evert

 

[Eraserhead]

Never had no win ever