New balls please!

Epic game of tennis last night with Andy Murray and the very un-Swiss sounding Stanislas Wawrinka taking it to a breathtaking climax under the new Centre Court roof long after darkness had fallen outside. It was a great advert for tennis and I’m sure the BBC will be happy with their viewing figures.

But is appears as though not everything at Wimbledon is about the unsullied love of tennis and The Evening Standard has pointed out that RBS, the bank the government bought with your money, is spending £300,000 on an entertainment suite during the Championships. Whilst exploding with the usual tabloid shock by contrasting what a regular ticket-holder has to pay against what corporate entertainment provides they do lift the covers on RBS’s apparent attempts to keep this taxpayer-funded expense away from casual gaze, possibly suggesting some degree of comprehension on RBS’s part that the public may not wholly understand quite why RBS are spending their money on partying with people who could probably afford it anyway while your average Joe and Jane Public has to cut back on their spending.

If true it seems as though some parts of RBS still haven’t got the message or understood what’s been going on for the last few months and doesn’t bode well for their rehabilitation from profligate risk-takers to responsible financiers.

The Evening Standard - RBS at the tennis
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/