S.P.O.T.Y

Cleat Eastwood

In terms of having a sporting goal and dedicatedly working hard to achieve it AND also have a personality surely there can only be one winner.....can't there?

iainf72

Everyone has a personality

I don't really think things SPOTY have much value. Can anyone remember who won last year? Or the year before? Cavendish won the Worlds, why does he need to win some kind of popularity contest?

rick_chasey

iainf72 wrote:

Everyone has a personality

I don't really think things SPOTY have much value. Can anyone remember who won last year? Or the year before? Cavendish won the Worlds, why does he need to win some kind of popularity contest?

Because it makes fans of a niche sport feel special.


Obviously.

7/10... :P

fastercyclist

He certainly has the personality.

But does he have the palmares?

calvjones

Unfortunately the unbelievable grouping of Wiggo, St Dave, G, Jezzer 'C' Hunt et all is nailed on not to get team of the year.

RichN95.

fastercyclist wrote:

He certainly has the personality.

But does he have the palmares?

Compared to the other front runners, he's got palmares by the truck load.

RowCycle

Some second-rate footballer will probably win...

Ringo 68

RowCycle wrote:

Some second-rate footballer will probably win...

Or an over the hill golfer who just happened to have one good week all year.

iainf72

So at work today, the people who followed cycling chatted a bit about the worlds. People who aren't cycling fans didn't mention it.

The rugby got a lot of talk, even by the folks who aren't really into sport.

andyp

Who gives a damn? The BBC coverage of all sport is a joke, with lots of ex-players offering opinions as cosy as their casual woollens, and the Sports Personality of the Year Award has become the epitome of this whole rubbish approach.

deejay

Ringo 68 wrote:

RowCycle wrote:

Some second-rate footballer will probably win...

Or an over the hill golfer who just happened to have one good week all year.

I think Cav could have a chance because the BBC actually had him on screen yesterday.
It is the BBC SPOTY and their viewers are the people that count and so if he gets on their short list with all the SPOTY progam promotions which are repeated often.
Then he could follow Chris Hoy & Tom Simpson.

verylonglegs

It's the most pointless sporting award out there imo.

deejay

andyp wrote:

Who gives a damn? The BBC coverage of all sport is a joke, with lots of ex-players offering opinions as cosy as their casual woollens, and the Sports d-Shoulderof the Year Award has become the epitome of this whole rubbish approach.

I agree.
Thats why we call it the Blah Blah Claptrap channel where idiot camermen/women are trained to focus on Head/Shoulders only

SLX01

verylonglegs wrote:

It's the most pointless sporting award out there imo.

Ironically there was a question on the quiz show 'pointless' today about SPOTY they had to name past female winners and the list list wasn't that great, I remembered about two and one of those was Princess Anne!!

MatthewBulmer

I was in the audience when Zara Phillips won it; there was a spontaneous outbreak of laughter from large sections of the people there, including some of the sports people. How about the GB road team for 'team of the year'? http://twitter.com/#!/Chris_Boardman

finchy

iainf72 wrote:

So at work today, the people who followed cycling chatted a bit about the worlds. People who aren't cycling fans didn't mention it.

The rugby got a lot of talk, even by the folks who aren't really into sport.

Yeah, but when it comes to voting, we'll have world champion, maillot vert Cav versus some rugby players who went to New Zealand and won f**k all, our best football team who got slaughtered by Barca, F1 drivers who can't drive around in circles quite as fast as other drivers and a couple of medallists at the athletics world championships.

So who will people vote for?

warrior4life

I hope he wins, I put £20 on him to win back in may.

andyp

johnfinch wrote:

So who will people vote for?

Rory McIlroy, for winning the US Open.

The_Special_One

Ringo 68 wrote:

RowCycle wrote:

Some second-rate footballer will probably win...

Or an over the hill golfer who just happened to have one good week all year.

Ding Ding Ding, we have our winner.

RichN95.

verylonglegs wrote:

It's the most pointless sporting award out there imo.

You've not had to sit through the Welsh Hockey Awards. No amount of free food and booze made it bearable.

sjedwardz

I don't really care. The competition is completely pointless - Sports personality - who gives a f!
It should be sporting achievement - that way it would open it up to a lot more sports. It also means you don't necessarily have had to win.

I was watching the UK Ironman race the other night, can't remember who won it but was truly humbled by an Army vet who had both legs blown off. He learnt to swim earlier this year and did the whole race. Using a recumbent style bike for the bike bit and a wheelchair for running.

Now that was truly an achievement way outside anything some poncy footballer who earns more in a week that than guy would in 10 years!

LeicesterLad

Rory will get it for his Open win, Cricket will bag the team prize for being slightly less sh*t than they are most years. Someone will bang on about Lewis Hamilton driving a car (they wont remind us he had one winning season and has driven like turd ever since), there will be a tribute for some dead darts player nobody heard of, Gary Lineker, Sue Barker, Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson and the Lesbian horse women/man (forgot her name now) will all feature heavily talking about what an amazing sporting year its been (has it? has it really? no, no it hasn't, it really hasnt) Alex ferguson or Wenger will probably win something, they usually do, breakthrough star will be somebody who broke through 4 years ago but the BBC only noticed while coming up with the shortlist, and Cav will most like watch all this from the comfort of his own home knowing that he is a world champion in one of the hardest sports in the universe probably not giving a monkeys. Meanwhile everyone at home watching it will talk about how crap it is or what a fix it is...

Looked at the back pages of the papers today, Cav made the Times, that was about it i think...So i only expect the same from the BBC.

The_Special_One

LeicesterLad wrote:

Rory will get it for his Open win, Cricket will bag the team prize for being slightly less sh*t than they are most years. Someone will bang on about Lewis Hamilton driving a car (they wont remind us he had one winning season and has driven like turd ever since), there will be a tribute for some dead darts player nobody heard of, Gary Lineker, Sue Barker, Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson and the Lesbian horse women/man (forgot her name now) will all feature heavily talking about what an amazing sporting year its been (has it? has it really? no, no it hasn't, it really hasnt) Alex ferguson or Wenger will probably win something, they usually do, breakthrough star will be somebody who broke through 4 years ago but the BBC only noticed while coming up with the shortlist, and Cav will most like watch all this from the comfort of his own home knowing that he is a world champion in one of the hardest sports in the universe probably not giving a monkeys. Meanwhile everyone at home watching it will talk about how crap it is or what a fix it is...

Looked at the back pages of the papers today, Cav made the Times, that was about it i think...So i only expect the same from the BBC.

Correct sport but it will be that other Northern Irishman that wins.

prawny

Main picture on the back of the metro, was pleasantly surprised.

Kléber

I don't see the point of the award except to please minority sports who can see "one of theirs" getting some limelight and recognition.

But can you imagine anyone training harder because of this award? The guy is world champion and that's so much bigger than a Christmas telly show and a phone vote.

Daz555

I know people mock the SPOTY award but when you look at the list of winners it has been packed full of sporting greats over the years. Not many footballers too which is refreshing.

Last 30:

Tony McCoy
Ryan Giggs
Chris Hoy
Joe Calzaghe
Zara Phillips
Andrew Flintoff
Kelly Holmes
Jonny Wilkinson
Paula Radcliffe
David Beckham
Steve Redgrave
Lennox Lewis
Michael Owen
Greg Rusedski
Damon Hill
Linford Christie
Nigel Mansell
Liz McColgan
Paul Gascoine
Nick Faldo
Steve davis
Fatima Whitbread
Nigel Mansell
Barry McGuigan
Torvill & Dean
Steve Cram
Daley Thompson
Ian Botham
Robin Cousins
Sebastian Coe

Only Zara Philips and Ryan Giggs look really odd on that list and Giggs only looks odd cos it was for him a totally mediocre season. Ahh, one more. WTF is Greg Rusedski doing on there.

LeicesterLad

Greg Rusedski, Jesus that must have been a sh*t year for sport...

RichN95.

LeicesterLad wrote:

Greg Rusedski, Jesus that must have been a sh*t year for sport...

It's seems that in second place that year was Tim Henman. Did other sports just go on strike or something?

Le Commentateur

RichN95 wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

It's seems that in second place that year was Tim Henman.

Typical Henman, another missed opportunity.

The_Special_One

LeicesterLad wrote:

Greg Rusedski, Jesus that must have been a sh*t year for sport...

1997 and putting my sporting anorak on i think thats the year he got to the final of the U.S Open.

But yeah if runner up at the U.S Open gets you a win it must have been a poor year for British Sport.

shinyhelmut

Steve Davis?

Sport? Personality?