Sports Personality of the Year

[Vidor06]

So its that time of the year again. If you were going to vote, who would you vote for?

I think I would vote for David Haye as he has just won the single biggest prize is sport and he actually has a personality. Or maybe being a little partisan I would go for Rory McIlroy who has been amazing this year.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Beth Tweddle

 

[rich p]

So its that time of the year again. If you were going to vote, who would you vote for?

I think I would vote for David Haye as he has just won the single biggest prize is sport and he actually has a personality. Or maybe being a little partisan I would go for Rory McIlroy who has been amazing this year.

Hardly the single biggest prize in sport when there are at least 2 other versions which are presently held by arguably better boxers. The Klitschko bros.

 

[blazed]

Hardly the single biggest prize in sport when there are at least 2 other versions which are presently held by arguably better boxers. The Klitschko bros.

He probably just hopped on the bandwagon. Like all those rugby "fans" who popped up when england won the world cup.

 

[Aperitif]

He probably just hopped on the bandwagon. Like all those rugby "fans" who popped up when england won the world cup.

Stop flaming blazed and make a nomination.

It is hard to determine who should get the Sports Personality of the Year award simply because it is often the media who 'create' the 'personalities' of those concerned. Steven Gerard? David Beckham? Constructs both. Jonny Wilkinson - no chance although England expects...Someone who actually wipes the floor with the oppo every time. That would be British Cycling but er...we don't 'do' cycling er...you know - minority and all that. Which leaves drug addled track and field, or shall we try um horses racing against each other? Is there anyone we can puff up to take the award er..? No. Darts; that's it, darts. We have Phil the Powder...or snooker, bowls - yes, get the old codgers to wham in a vote or two.

Daley Thompson, Ian Botham, stand proud as Sports Personalities. Steve Redgrave. There may be others...

 

[rich p]

I suspect there will be a lot of support for Button especially as Hamilton was edged out by Hoy last year.

Not from me, I hasten to add.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'll let you know when the darts has finished tonight!

 

[MacB]

You've got to be looking for the biggest lying, cheating, self serving scumbag of the lot. That would cast a truer refelction of the modern sporting world.

 

[3-IN-One]

To give David haye it would be a travesty of justice has only just beat a bunch of average fighters to get the belt[and i know you can only beat what is infront you]..........To be a true champion you have to defend it for a goot length of time

My nominations would be Jenson Button or Stuart Broad

 

[accountantpete]

The Power or Cav for me

 

[Dayvo]

To give David haye it would be a travesty of justice has only just beat a bunch of average fighters to get the belt[and i know you can only beat what is infront you]..........To be a true champion you have to defend it for a goot length of time


My nominations would be Jenson Button or Stuart Broad

So how long has Button defended his title for?

And Broad (good player that he is , and better to become) isn't exactly Andrew Flintoff yet, either.

I'd vote for Mark Cavendish after his very successful TdeF!

 

[zizou]

Jessica Ennis or Beth Tweddle. Cavendish and Strauss and a few others would be deserving too

F1 and other motorsports stars IMO shouldnt be included in the shortlist - they are supremly fit individuals with a high degree of skill - but so much of their success and failure is built on the machine they are in rather than the individuals own performance against their competitors.

 

[Archie_tect]

You've got to be looking for the biggest lying, cheating, self serving scumbag of the lot. That would cast a truer refelction of the modern sporting world.

But I didn't know Peter Mandelson was sporty?

 

[Aperitif]

As an aside, I would be appointing MaB as my Director General of the BBC.

I know he's tasteless - he associates with me from time to time, but he would re-route Clare Balding from rugby league to er - the sack, Mark Lawrenson and all the other hippy tossers of a bygone era to the Labour Exchange also, and bring forward lucid, insightful commentary from all quarters - in order to inform and educate.

And he would name the Event "MacBBC Sports Person of the Year". (No engines, no horses, no referee saying "quiet please" categories, and so forth...)

Dancing can be included, but that would mean televised competition - not the visual diarrhoea of a Saturday celebrity night. (Donnie Burns and Gaynor Fairweather are trembling as I write) and darts! I would make darts players run 100 metres after each of their three darts and give 10 seconds to launch the arrows...a bit like the arrows equivalent of Nordic Skiing.

There must be more worthy categories.

 

[rich p]

MacB would win my vote for "Sporting Whinge of the Year" when he complained about not being able to get his spare tubes back in the seatpost bag that he'd just stuffed 3 packets of Benson & Hedges into.

Will1985 and Ilovebikes can jointly be awarded the "Show-off of the Year" for riding up and down Ditchling Beacon three times on a Fnrttc.