Sports Personality of the Year 2015

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freddielong said:
I am sure it makes them money from the phone lines why else would it be done that way.

It's been a waste of time for so long I used to love it in the 80's 90's now I don't even watch it.
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Yeah, I did think about that after posting. And they flog a load of tickets.

Maybe I should have said "save the beeb some time."
 
And of course it will descend even further toward farce when one of the nominations is Wayne Rooney cos he surpassed Bobby Charlton's record. Even though he's done diddly squat in the PL in 2015.
 
fundy said:
another year beating one credible opponent, best sportsman in the country lol, best personality lol lol lol lol :)
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Not a lot of British sporting success this year. It might as well go to someone who succeeded. The guy works hard and is very viable and knows how to win.
 
Lewis Hamilton has a good personality? Since when?

He's an egotistical, odious little thing who realistically has one rival who clearly doesn't get the team backing he does. He's a PR team's front man and nothing else.


And as others have said, it's a totally pointless award.
 
It has never been an award for being, or having 'a personality', as people seem to understand the word as meaning nowadays. It's not that difficult to grasp, although the annual thread and moaning on here may prove otherwise. It has always been for sporting achievement, they just called the program sports personality years ago when it first was invented back in the 50s and the name has stuck.

Yes the naming of it could be better to something like 'sports person of the year'. But back in the 50s being a personality generally meant you have succeeded in your sporting endevours and were therefore 'a personality'. It did not and has never meant you were a witty raconteur, bon viveur or someone you'd like to go for a pint with down the pub.

The official criteria to get on the shortlist are:-

Reflects UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage;
Represents the breadth and depth of UK sports, and;
Takes into account 'impact' over and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Reflects UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage;
Represents the breadth and depth of UK sports, and;
Takes into account 'impact' over and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question.
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Well that rules out Hamilton according to at least 2 and a half of those criteria.
 
Hacker Khan said:
It has never been an award for being, or having 'a personality', as people seem to understand the word as meaning nowadays. It's not that difficult to grasp, although the annual thread and moaning on here may prove otherwise. It has always been for sporting achievement, they just called the program sports personality years ago when it first was invented back in the 50s and the name has stuck.

Yes the naming of it could be better to something like 'sports person of the year'. But back in the 50s being a personality generally meant you have succeeded in your sporting endevours and were therefore 'a personality'. It did not and has never meant you were a witty raconteur, bon viveur or someone you'd like to go for a pint with down the pub.

The official criteria to get on the shortlist are:-

Reflects UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage;
Represents the breadth and depth of UK sports, and;
Takes into account 'impact' over and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question.
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You may as well talk to a brick wall. The same threads crop up here and elsewhere every year. They are all 'sporting personalities' in the same way as an actor/TV presenter is a 'Television Personality'.

It's based on who the public think has achieved the most in their respective sport for the previous year. It's not the "Who's the easiest to get along with and really nice to talk to and makes me laugh because he/she is dead funny but also is good at sports award"
 
Hacker Khan said:
It has never been an award for being, or having 'a personality', as people seem to understand the word as meaning nowadays. It's not that difficult to grasp, although the annual thread and moaning on here may prove otherwise. It has always been for sporting achievement, they just called the program sports personality years ago when it first was invented back in the 50s and the name has stuck.

Yes the naming of it could be better to something like 'sports person of the year'. But back in the 50s being a personality generally meant you have succeeded in your sporting endevours and were therefore 'a personality'. It did not and has never meant you were a witty raconteur, bon viveur or someone you'd like to go for a pint with down the pub.

The official criteria to get on the shortlist are:-

Reflects UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage;
Represents the breadth and depth of UK sports, and;
Takes into account 'impact' over and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question.
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Andy Murray steers GB to a Davis Cup win at end of month satisfies all your criteria pretty well I'd have thought. What more can one guy do to raise the profile of a sport in a country traditionally rather unenthusiastic about it at grass roots level. And now that we've got to know him a bit better I think he's actually a decent, wryly amusing, down-to-earth and non-flashy unostentatious guy
 
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gmc40 said:
You may as well talk to a brick wall. The same threads crop up here and elsewhere every year. They are all 'sporting personalities' in the same way as an actor/TV presenter is a 'Television Personality'.

It's based on who the public think has achieved the most in their respective sport for the previous year. It's not the "Who's the easiest to get along with and really nice to talk to and makes me laugh because he/she is dead funny but also is good at sports award"
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Explanation number 7 from Dictionary.reference.com: a famous, notable, or prominent person; celebrity.

Should put an end to all those 'he/she hasnt got a personality' comments!
 
I guess the thread was always going to end one way

To be clear all I was looking for was who people think should or indeed will win the respective awards

We have had countless threads about it being "worthless or a fix or person without a personality etc etc etc or about it be a waste or not bothering to watch it etc - if they question in the OP was

Do you think the SPOTY is worthwhile anymore then all the answers given bar a couple would be relevant ?!?

So can people please just give answers to what's been asked in the OP and who they think will be the winners of the relevant awards that will be given out on the night
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Andy Murray steers GB to a Davis Cup win at end of month satisfies all your criteria pretty well I'd have thought. What more can one guy do to raise the profile of a sport in a country traditionally rather unenthusiastic about it at grass roots level. And now that we've got to know him a bit better I think he's actually a decent, wryly amusing, down-to-earth and non-flashy unostentatious guy
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Spoken like a true Scotsman on behalf of another Scotsman :whistle:
 
It's called Sports Personality because when they started it, Sports Pwrson of the year was already being awarded by another channel, so they had to have another name.

Having said that, it gives them the chance to not give it to someone successful they'd rather not, as has happened once or twice
 
Liverpoolphil said:
I guess the thread was always going to end one way

To be clear all I was looking for was who people think should or indeed will win the respective awards

We have had countless threads about it being "worthless or a fix or person without a personality etc etc etc or about it be a waste or not bothering to watch it etc - if they question in the OP was

Do you think the SPOTY is worthwhile anymore then all the answers given bar a couple would be relevant ?!?

So can people please just give answers to what's been asked in the OP and who they think will be the winners of the relevant awards that will be given out on the night
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Phil this is not your forum and you don't make the rules.
It seems if it doesn't suit you everybody is wrong.

What about your thread "The best team ever" turning into only the ones Phil knows or in Phils era,get over yourself mate your like a whining women.[No disrespect ladies].
 
Surely if Hamilton and Murray live outside the UK, then they can only win the over seas personality? They are over seas after all. Frome is a good call, but he is Zimbabwean.

Team, all blacks
Personality, no idea.
Coach, Chieka
Over seas, Hamilton.
 
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