Indeed and if you spend one minute on AM.com, the 100% fanboy attitude can sometimes make you sick. And it's a disgrace that they delete negative posts on the new articles (and the forum I assume) for PR reasons.

However, matchpoint has a point which is there sometimes can be a surprising amount of negativity of Murray on this website which I'm sure turns some people away but this is what you get with absolute freedom of speech.

I won't dispute that a lot of the negativity, not the majority though, can come from me but I'm still a fan

Everything is PR now a days. Its sad to see Andy is no exception.

and of course you may turn out to be right Matchpoint.  I am just soo fed up of all the spin that is put on everything nowadays and would so love the world to return to ideas such as integrity and realness, so I would probably have a thing against PR people whoever it was for!

I certainly hope it works for him.  I just don't really like it!

Couldn't agree with you more.

'You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time'

so you may as well just be yourself ..and as you said, learn to love/accept yourself.

I think it's easy for us to say that it doesn't matter if the public dislikes him. It must be pretty hard to read some of that stuff that gets written - hard for him, hard for his family, and I bet his sponsors would prefer a more positive press, too.

Andy never seems fully relaxed in the media spotlight, even when he's just won a tournament, and I don't think he always comes across well because of that. The trouble is, the media are so powerful in controlling public opinion, so I'm not surprised he feels in need of help.

As for the "smile more" suggestion, if you look at some of the blogs on am.com, Andy smiles loads; he just doesn't seem able to do fake, photo smiles so the media perception is that he's a miserable so-and-so.

Also, the time he joked about the World Cup it didn't work too well for him. Small wonder he thinks twice before saying "Did you hear the one about..."

Thank you for letting me have my say even though I'm not a member!  

dont understand why  murray gets slagged off i he lost half off last year with injury but still finished about number 11 in the world not bad 4  someone that hasnt lived up to the hype not to mention 5 apt titles  three master series semi finals and as for the davis cup is it his fault the rest of the team  are second rate  afterall tennis is an individual sport and ranking matter after next weeks master series in  miama his ranking should  go thru the roof due to having nothing to defend till after wimbleden

Prior to 2006 Wimbledon, Murray caused some public debate[28] with comments against the England national football team, stating that he would like to see "anyone except England" win the 2006 World Cup. He received large amounts of hate mail on his website as a result.[29] However, at a later date, Murray explained that his comments were said in jest in response to provocation from an English reporter who had asked him if he'd be supporting Scotland in the World Cup[30] knowing full well that Scotland had not qualified for the tournament. Murray also, after his win against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon 2006, expressed disappointment over England's loss in their match against Portugal at the 2006 World Cup.[31]
Yes it was stupid of him but it would be great if the Murray haters educated themselves on the possible reasoning behind his comments.