PRIZE money at Wimbledon has gone up to a stonking £1.5m for the champions. If that’s not an excuse for passion, nerves and a bloodyminded determination to win, then nothing is.
But I still can’t imagine Andy Murray, biting lumps out of Roger Federer’s arm.
So what’s football’s excuse?
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