tragics

Poor Andy Murray had it easy last week when England's sporting tragics were otherwise preoccupied but no longer.

Wimbledon 2010: Weight of Britain's expectation falls on Andy Murray 2010

Australians call people obsessed with the game "cricket tragics" and the team's redoubtable former opening batsman Justin Langer is happy to describe himself as one.

Keeping My Head by Justin Langer – review Rob Bagchi 2010

A site called cricket-blog is headed 'a blog where an Australian cricket tragic talks Ashes' and goes on to say that this is the place 'where cricket tragics rant'.

Archive 2009-12-01 DC 2009

Some people might call themselves 'cricket tragics' with a hint of pride, but I think the main idea is self-deprecating.

On being a tragic DC 2009

Pop music, no matter what many of us pop music tragics will tell you, does indeed have the ability to age horribly but, as any pop music tragic will you too, so does any genre, so it's amazing how well it stands up today.

Archive 2009-09-01 Glenn Dunks 2009

A site called cricket-blog is headed 'a blog where an Australian cricket tragic talks Ashes' and goes on to say that this is the place 'where cricket tragics rant'.

On being a tragic DC 2009

We find such usages as That was a miserable tragic and all the tragics you can think of.

Archive 2009-12-01 DC 2009

We find such usages as That was a miserable tragic and all the tragics you can think of.

On being a tragic DC 2009

Because some butterflies turn into committed writers, some tragics can genuinely write and find their calling, some executives turn into professionals.

Rant warning mikandra 2007

There are the tragics, who have never been able to hold down a proper job in their lives, let alone a commitment to write a novel or to read someone else's.

Rant warning mikandra 2007