Sports Personality of the Year

[rich p]

No, it's not. Is there any point to it? Just two blokes getting drunk throwing pointy things at a target on the wall. No real test of endurance at all .

Of course there's a point to it.
Three each

 

[NormanD]

For me theres one guy thats achieved a great deal, but is always overlooked and that would be A.P.Mccoy (Tony Mccoy to most people) .. he's been champion jump jockey since 1995 - present

he'd get my vote any day of the week.

 

[Aperitif]

For me theres one guy thats achieved a great deal, but is always overlooked and that would be A.P.Mccoy (Tony Mccoy to most people) .. he's been champion jump jockey since 1995 - present

he'd get my vote any day of the week.

I'd vote for his horses - woe betide the neigh-sayers!

 

[cisamcgu]

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.

Hmmmm... and the current holder, is he a "lying, cheating, self serving scumbag" ?

 

[totallyfixed]

This country has, and has had world champions in many of the "minority" sports - canoeing, badminton, squash, judo, to name only a few. Thanks to the usual lack of media coverage the average person in the street has never heard of them. Shame that SPOTY is always manipulated by tv in providing the general public with a list that is usually decided by who got the most media coverage.
When was the last time there wasn't either a boxer, footballer, or F1 driver being nominated?
Cynical? Me? Never.

 

[MacB]

Hmmmm... and the current holder, is he a "lying, cheating, self serving scumbag" ?

nice try, but not what I said, I was referring to choosing someone that actually reflected what the 'marketing folks' had turned modern sport into. I'm not sure that there is a sportsperson in existence that has enough of the requisite negative qualities to achieve this.

 

[MacB]

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.

JPS not Bensons, I have standards you know!!!