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David Mercer
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Respect in sport with David Mercer who umpired a McEnroe-Connors Wimbledon shootout.
Swansea tennis expert David Mercer umpired a Wimbledon final shootout between John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors and survived. He talks to Peter Jackson about respect and tantrums in sport, ensuring fair play, and how Llanelli's Edward James - the man in the chair during McEnroe's You Cannot Be Serious outburst - helped him on his way. He recalls surviving a Nastase outburst in Romania. And he tells how he moved from sharing a dressing room with the legendary Ken Rosewall to adjudicating at matches to a career commentating for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.
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Thu 26 Jul 2018
18:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Wales
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