Sports personality of the year

[toyboy54]

O.K.people who's it to be???
I'm not biased (as a Scot)but I've gone for Chris Hoy.
Will Phone many times!!!!)

 

[Basher]

Not bothered, as long as it's not a bloody footballer!
Can't believe they win awards for winning bugger all.

I imagine an Olympian will get the nod, now they are winners!

 

[brendy]

Sorry matey, I had to google chris hoy... :O
Its either Lewis Hamilton or Joe Calzaghe (hes retiring now isnt he? and would be a fitting end to his tremendous career).

 

[theeaglehunter]

Calzaghe won it last year though mate.

Hamilton didn't win comfortably enough to warrant it this year.

Chris Hoy would get my vote

I don't want Rebecca Adlington to win it, and I don't know why because she did brilliantly. I think it is because she isn't really a sporting 'personality'.

 

[madandra]

Hoy or Adlington. All achieved by personal sacrifice and endeavour whereas Hamilton has been tickled by McLaren financially since he was in nappies, Oh I forgot he doesn't poo does he cos he is a god.

 

[viscount17]

the only one that should be a shoo-in is the team award; has to be the cyclists.

(odd isn't it; the rest of the time I have a loathe-hate relationship with cyclists, but come the olympics or commonwealth, europeans etc . . . .)

 

[Cernunnos]

Apart from certain sports like golf few sports can be said to have sportmen with any real personality, so it seems like a contraditction in tearms to be voting for sports personality of the year. I must say I've a very cynical view on awards of this sort, especially as those that really deserve some sort of award are usually the least likely to be awarded them.

 

[haplesshacker]

Reckon it'll be Lewis, minutes to spare

 

[haplesshacker]

Think Ben Ainslie should win it, but sailing ain't a universally watched / liked sport.

 

[haplesshacker]

Top Gear, being recorded earlier this week will be amuzing on who won it!

 

[haplesshacker]

Bet it's a cyclist

 

[haplesshacker]

A cyclist. That'll please Clarkson

 

[Tommo21]

A cyclist. That'll please Clarkson

He won't even notice with his head so far up his, well you know where.

 

[birdieman]

Hoy's probably a worthy winner but track cycling will never be a popular sport, it's too specialist to have mass appeal.

The whole event looks terribly overdone, I didn't watch it except for the last 5 minutes.

Glad Hamilton didn't win, he's a smug little so and so in the same mould as Seb Coe.

 

[Basher]

Missed it, come on then......who won?

Oh, hang on. I take it Hoy won!!!

 

[Herbie]

Didnt watch it as I dont have much faith in the method they choose someone and for what? Sports personality????? it never is really, its all about manipulated popularity and achievenent and never about personality. Ive seen or heard of people winning over the years that compared to many real personalities in the running end up a joke. Nope its not for me this one.

 

[backwoodsman]

It's "personality" as the BBC's sop to political correctness. "Sportsman" excludes the ladies and "Sportsperson" sounds too damned silly. "Personality" per se has sod all to to with it - most top sports people don't have one.

I didn't vote, but Chris Hoy was my choice from ages ago. Who was the last Brit to win three golds in a single olympics? If that doesn't rate as good then nothing does. A surprise that Hamilton didn't win? Come on - a sportsman? He may be a good driver but he sits on his a*se - and in any case he is only the front end of a highly expensive team...

 

[Cernunnos]

Sportsperson doesn't really sound silly, especially when compared to the pussyfooting around to come up the term Sports peronality....;ROLLEYES:Gimme Strength..!!!

 

[haplesshacker]

Mind you. Poulters review of the golfing year was quite tongue-in-cheek!

 

[CarpeDiem]

What was it?