S.P.O.T.Y

LeicesterLad

RichN95 wrote:

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?

The only remotely fun and interesting form of tennis is.....

LeicesterLad

ShinyHelmut wrote:

Steve Davis?

Sport? Personality?

And Mr Robotic Seb Coe himself.

yourpaceormine

Cricket will win everything I'm afraid. It would take a "disgraceful viral internet campaign by sweaty geeks" (The Daily Mail) to let a successful sportsperson win.

LeicesterLad

yourpaceormine wrote:

Cricket will win everything I'm afraid. It would take a "disgraceful viral internet campaign by sweaty geeks" (The Daily Mail) to let a successful sportsperson win.

never really like cricket all that much, but deffinately fell out with it when Fat boy pretend athlete Darren Gough told talk sport the TdF was a joke and that anybody can ride a bike for 3 weeks. :roll:

shm_uk

If anybody, I think Mark Cavendish is deserving of the SPotY Award:

Tour of Oman – Stage 6 winner

Grote Scheldeprijs – overall winner for a record-equalling 3rd time

Giro d'Italia – Stages 10 & 12 winner

11th June 2011 – appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Tour de France – won Stages 5, 7, 11, 15 & 21; bringing his total to 20 career Tour de France stage wins, and the first person ever to win the final stage three years in succession; became the first British cyclist to ever win the Maillot Vert

Stiphout Criterium – Overall Winner

Profcriterium Wolvertem-Meise – Overall Winner

Wateringse Wielerdag – Overall Winner

London-Surrey Cycle Classic – Overall Winner

Tour of Britain – Stage 1 & final Stage winner

UCI Road World Championships – Winner; the second British World Champion after Tom Simpson in 1965

How many sportists can claim a similar list of achievements during 2011?

LeicesterLad

shm_uk wrote:

If anybody, I think Mark Cavendish is deserving of the SPotY Award:

Tour of Oman – Stage 6 winner

Grote Scheldeprijs – overall winner for a record-equalling 3rd time

Giro d'Italia – Stages 10 & 12 winner

11th June 2011 – appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Tour de France – won Stages 5, 7, 11, 15 & 21; bringing his total to 20 career Tour de France stage wins, and the first person ever to win the final stage three years in succession; became the first British cyclist to ever win the Maillot Vert

Stiphout Criterium – Overall Winner

Profcriterium Wolvertem-Meise – Overall Winner

Wateringse Wielerdag – Overall Winner

London-Surrey Cycle Classic – Overall Winner

Tour of Britain – Stage 1 & final Stage winner

UCI Road World Championships – Winner; the second British World Champion after Tom Simpson in 1965

How many sportists can claim a similar list of achievements during 2011?

The simple answer is nobody, by a very very long way...but does the mass media give a monkeys nuts? No.

rebs

TBF. Steve Davis has always came across and very approachable and funny. Just not when he was young and very ginger :P

zippypablo

What did Michael Owen do to win it?

rick_chasey

Who on earth is Tony Mccoy?

Sounds like a fake name people give.

Omar Little

zippypablo wrote:

What did Michael Owen do to win it?

scored a goal against Argentina, in a match in which his team still lost!

bisoner

Looking at the list of past winners, alot of focus is given to the Olympics so this will be a further reason he wont win. The award is also closely linked to what BBC spends their sporting coverage budget on. Their cycling coverage is pretty dire.

I'd also argue that the TdF Green jersey was Cav's best achievement this year because it is the TdF- even after his epic win at the weekend which has probably got more media attention.

Minority sports have won a few but it's pretty much a banker that Darren Clarke will win. It was the British Open, BBC covered it from start to finish and we had a British winner at the end of his career - fairy tale ending really!!!

Daz555

Rick Chasey wrote:

Who on earth is Tony Mccoy?

A.P. McCoy - Champion Jockey every year since about 1995. Over 3000 race wins. Has won The Gold Cup and The Grand National.

Deserved winner.

Gazzaputt

Daz555 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Who on earth is Tony Mccoy?

A.P. McCoy - Champion Jockey every year since about 1995. Over 3000 race wins. Has won The Gold Cup and The Grand National.

Deserved winner.

Think the horses deserve most of the credit.

On_What

I was shocked he didn't win it last year, after a consistent achievement in one of the hardest races on earth...

Instead they gave it to Giggs, who donated a lot of sperm, but that's hardly sport!

LeicesterLad

Gazzaputt wrote:

Daz555 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Who on earth is Tony Mccoy?

A.P. McCoy - Champion Jockey every year since about 1995. Over 3000 race wins. Has won The Gold Cup and The Grand National.

Deserved winner.

Think the horses deserve most of the credit.

Was going to say, all he does is sit on a horse and hit it with a stick...

andyp

So Darren Gough is an idiot for being misinformed or ignorant about another sport, but it's fine for you to do it?

Right.

greasedscotsman

zippypablo wrote:

What did Michael Owen do to win it?

Got more votes than anyone else?

AidanR

I do hope Cav wins, but Darren Clarke would also be an immensely worthy winner given what he's been through and how he came through it.

And the England cricket team just have to win the team of the year. They have been consistently magnificent.

iainf72

AidanR wrote:

I do hope Cav wins, but Darren Clarke would also be an immensely worthy winner given what he's been through and how he came through it.

And the England cricket team just have to win the team of the year. They have been consistently magnificent.

Whoa whoa whoa - Can you please leave the balanced and informed opinion at the door? This is BikeRadar.

LeicesterLad

andyp wrote:

So Darren Gough is an idiot for being misinformed or ignorant about another sport, but it's fine for you to do it?

Right.

Im not a professional sportsman on national radio. :roll:

AidanR

iainf72 wrote:

AidanR wrote:

I do hope Cav wins, but Darren Clarke would also be an immensely worthy winner given what he's been through and how he came through it.

And the England cricket team just have to win the team of the year. They have been consistently magnificent.

Whoa whoa whoa - Can you please leave the balanced and informed opinion at the door? This is BikeRadar.

Sorry, footballers are a bunch of whining, overpaid sh*tbags, all other sports are pathetic and irrelevant compared to cycling, and Cav is the best thing ever / an arrogant, wheelsucking, car-holding little prick.

cavcan

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.

Your comment lost all credibility for me when you put "Cricket will bag the team prize for being slightly less sh*t than they are most years." Don't let your support for cycling and Cav get in the way of other sporting achievements. I think Cav should win, he has been fantastic (again), but to say that suggests little or no knowledge of what the English cricket team has done over the last ~ 3 years.

andyp

LeicesterLad wrote:

Im not a professional sportsman on national radio. :roll:

Indeed. You're just an ignorant tw*t on an internet forum.

LeicesterLad

andyp wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Im not a professional sportsman on national radio. :roll:

Indeed. You're just an ignorant tw*t on an internet forum.

Think you need to pick up your toys son.

AidanR

LeicesterLad

cavcan wrote:

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.

Your comment lost all credibility for me when you put "Cricket will bag the team prize for being slightly less sh*t than they are most years." Don't let your support for cycling and Cav get in the way of other sporting achievements. I think Cav should win, he has been fantastic (again), but to say that suggests little or no knowledge of what the English cricket team has done over the last ~ 3 years.

It was supposed to be a comical take on the borefest that is SPOTY :roll:

cavcan

LeicesterLad wrote:

cavcan wrote:

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.

Your comment lost all credibility for me when you put "Cricket will bag the team prize for being slightly less sh*t than they are most years." Don't let your support for cycling and Cav get in the way of other sporting achievements. I think Cav should win, he has been fantastic (again), but to say that suggests little or no knowledge of what the English cricket team has done over the last ~ 3 years.

It was supposed to be a comical take on the borefest that is SPOTY :roll:

In that case, apologies, I clearly misread (have no sense of humour!).

verylonglegs

bisoner wrote:

Looking at the list of past winners, alot of focus is given to the Olympics so this will be a further reason he wont win. The award is also closely linked to what BBC spends their sporting coverage budget on. Their cycling coverage is pretty dire.

Minority sports have won a few but it's pretty much a banker that Darren Clarke will win. It was the British Open, BBC covered it from start to finish and we had a British winner at the end of his career - fairy tale ending really!!!

That's the funniest thing about the award, the BBC pretending it still has anything to do with sport coverage on any scale. It's only because the olympics, wimbledon and football world cup are officially protected that they get to show any of those. If anything such an award should be on Sky Sports (Oh my, there...I said it!)

derbygrimpeur

Daz555 wrote:

Last 30:

Tony McCoy
Ryan Giggs
Chris Hoy

Didn't some darts player win last year, and McCoy in 2009?

RE: Michael Owen, yes he scored against Argentina, but he also has a superb year for Liverpool and was up for World Player of the year I believe. That's quite an achievement for a 17 year old lad. Not sure what else went on that year.

IMO, the only other person that should come close to Cav is Mo Farah. I'm hoping Cav will win, but wouldn't begrudge Farah a win. I suspect though, that one of them Northern Irish golfers will win, despite golf not actually being a sport. BBC set a precedent with that last year by giving a sports award to an obese darts player! :roll:

iainf72

I remember when Greg Lemond won Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year, there were a lot of complaints as cycling isn't a sport, because it doesn't involve hand / eye coordination.