Wimbledon 2011: 50 things we have learned from two weeks in SW19
6. Murray is a fan of Percy Pig sweets and was sent 30 bags of them by Marks and Spencer. At 335 calories each, a potentially ruinous gesture
7. Martina Navratilova has never heard a tennis ball make a sound like it does when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga hits a forehand
8. Guile still has a place in women’s tennis - witness 40-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm, who almost embarrassed Venus Williams
9. Wearing a jacket with tennis balls glued to it does not make you Lady Gaga, Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Nor a good tennis player
10. Judy Murray fancies Feliciano “Deliciano” Lopez. But Andy was “embarrassed”, and dumped the Spaniard out in straight sets
11. Camilla really likes tennis, in contrast to other Royals at Wimbledon. “I don’t think she wanted to go home,” said Elena Baltacha after meeting the Duchess
12. Bernard Tomic wants his surname to be pronounced “Tomick”, not “Tomitch”. Partly to justify his nickname, “Atomic”
13. Murray has replaced his Ferrari with an Aston Martin. “It’s a poser’s car,” he said of the former
14. Simon Broady is such a staunch critic of the Lawn Tennis Association that he refused to allow profiles of his children – Liam, the boys’ runner-up, and Naomi – to appear in the LTA’s player guide
15. The Williams sisters remain unpopular with middle England. Even after all the adventures – cut feet, pulmonary embolisms – they departed to cheers
16. Men play on the show courts more than women - as pointed out by Serena
17. Beating Anne Keothavong means you have a good chance of winning the tournament - see Maria Sharapova in 2004, Venus Williams in 2008 and Petra Kvitova this yearh
18. “Pójść ” – which Kvitova said every time she pumped her fist – means “come on”, and is pronounced “Potszch”
19. Heather Watson (attitude, speed of foot, resilience) and Laura Robson (talent, serve, big groundstrokes) combined would be world No 1
20.
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Diversity is Chaos: Tribal politics in Ireland
There are real tribal differences between the Irish political parties Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil that date back hundreds of years before the foundation of the modern Irish State, according to two political scientists. An analysis of the names of all of the Irish members of parliament who have served in the Irish parliament shows that Fine Gael members are more likely to come from Norman/English families while Fianna Fáilers tend to come from indigenous Irish Gaelic backgrounds. The analysis was carried out by Dr Eoin O’Malley of DCU (a son of former Progressive Democrat leader Des O’Malley) and Dr Kevin Byrne of Trinity College Dublin. They based their research on the fact that Irish surnames are among the oldest in the world, dating back many centuries. The origin of almost all of those names, whether Gaelic, Norman or English, is known. After identifying the surname origin of every one of the 1,100 members of parliament ever elected, the researchers found significant differences in the distribution of surnames between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. While 64% of Fianna Fáil members have surnames of exclusively indigenous Irish Gaelic origin, only 51% of Fine Gael members do. The opposite pattern is seen for English/Norman surnames, with 22% of Fine Gael members bearing names of that origin, but only 12% of Fianna Fáil deputies. While a surname of a given origin isn’t enough to predict a politician’s party, there is a bias in affiliation toward Fianna Fáil members of parliament having indigenous Irish Gaelic surnames and Fine Gael members having Norman and English surnames. The probability of these differences arising by chance is very remote, so tribal polarization between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is statistically significant. In addition, Fianna Fáil has significantly more members of parliament with indigenous Irish Gaelic surnames than would be expected given the Irish population, while Fine Gael has more members with Norman and English surnames than a random sampling of Irish citizens would warrant. The academics speculate that the division between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael reflected an underlying division in Irish politics between constitutional nationalists and indigenous Irish Gaelic nationalists, which was important throughout the 19th century. Many of those who had supported the Irish Parliamentary Party before 1918 went on to back Fine Gael.
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