Two-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray has rubbished suggestions that he is anti-English following his backing of Scottish independence.
The 27-year-old, who grew up in Dunblane, sparked controversy back in 2006 when he claimed that he would "support whoever England were playing against" at the football World Cup.
The 2013 Wimbledon champion also backed Scotland to vote for independence from Britain last year, but the world number three has insisted that he is not anti-English as evidenced by his marrying English fiancee Kim Sears.
"The whole notion that I don't like English people is nonsense," the Daily Mail quotes Murray as saying. "I work with English people on a daily basis. I am going to get married to one. I live here. It is just nonsense.
"That's the thing that upsets me the most about it. Some of my family are English. I am also getting married to an Englishwoman so my in-laws are all English."
Murray is due to wed Sears in April.
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