SPOTY 2013

[Beebo]

The 10 shortlisted contender for Sports Personality of the Year will be announced tonight.

I can't see past Andy Murray to win, with Mo Farrah, Justin Rose, AP McCoy and Chris Froome all fighting it out for runners up spots. I'm sure there are others I have missed.

 

[PaulB]

The 10 shortlisted contender for Sports Personality of the Year will be announced tonight.

I can't see past Andy Murray to win, with Mo Farrah, Justin Rose, AP McCoy and Chris Froome all fighting it out for runners up spots. I'm sure there are others I have missed.

Jonathan Trott?

 

[Beebo]

Jonathan Trott?

is a very brave man to admit his troubles and seek help.

 

[Aperitif]

How can Andy Murray 'win' anything with the word 'personality' featuring in the prize title?

 

[Beebo]

How can Andy Murray 'win' anything with the word 'personality' featuring in the prize title?

I think Andy Muray has quite a dry sense of humour that probably doesnt come across too well in interviews.

 

[Aperitif]

He comes across as a petulant git - maybe that's history now, but don't 'true' sportsmen and women start with a bit of dignity and finish with exactly that. I know no-one really cares anyway. Did Lennox Lewis ever win it BTW?

 

[RedRider]

Luis Suarez?

 

[Beebo]

He comes across as a petulant git - maybe that's history now, but don't 'true' sportsmen and women start with a bit of dignity and finish with exactly that. I know no-one really cares anyway. Did Lennox Lewis ever win it BTW?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sports-personality/19587151
yep, 1999.
Cyclists have won 3 out of the last 5 years. Will Froome make it 4?

 

[Aperitif]

Thank you - bit tied for time to look earlier.
Maybe the Beeb, oh - I mean the BBC, well, or Beebo could do a 'Where are They Now?' feature on the affaires of the Winners, from their year to today etc.Lennox Lewis used to have a car hire place in South Harrow a while back, for example (and coincidentally re: my question above.)

 

[ASC1951]

I think Andy Murray has quite a dry sense of humour that probably doesn't come across too well in interviews.

TBH I don't understand how professional athletes cope with answering the same inane questions day after day, even without them being asked by an irritating little tick like Garry Richardson. I would be headbutting reporters by the end of the first week.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Maybe the Beeb, oh - I mean the BBC, well, or Beebo could do a 'Where are They Now?' feature on the affaires of the Winners...

David Broome's made a clean sweep of it.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sports-personality/19587151
yep, 1999.
Cyclists have won 3 out of the last 5 years. Will Froome make it 4?

no he won't, he's a hard one to warm to.

The first TdF thing was wiggo's trump card as first Wimbledon win in the living memory of 99% of the population will be Murrays

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That guy, Murray something.... Didn't he win some sort of tennis thingy?..... I'll be b*ggered if I can remember his name though!

 

[totallyfixed]

I despair, there are hugely successful women out there too, in fact you could argue more so than men.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

SPOTY - 'fraid I gave up with that many years ago. It really makes me cringe