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Sports Personality of the Year 2010
Simon Jackson
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A big year of sport this year, the Winter Olympics, The World Cup, Commonwealth Games, F1 season, Ashes at the end of the year, etc.
First canditates for the overseas award are Lindsay Vonn and Alexandre Bilodeau, the first Canadian to win gold at an Olympics in Canada.
For the main award. Martin Adams for winning his second BDO world darts title and the oldest champion too is a starter.
And if Ryan Giggs won the award for not acheiving anything last year. Anyone for Vinnie Jones?
First canditates for the overseas award are Lindsay Vonn and Alexandre Bilodeau, the first Canadian to win gold at an Olympics in Canada.
For the main award. Martin Adams for winning his second BDO world darts title and the oldest champion too is a starter.
And if Ryan Giggs won the award for not acheiving anything last year. Anyone for Vinnie Jones?
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Why murray is the favourite is a mystery.
Although I am sure you won't agree he is far more likely to win Wimbledon than England are to win the world cup.
England won the world cup 44 years ago - its been 74 years since a British man won the men's singles title at Wimbledon.
you've got to be joking.
The people you mentioned have no change of winning any awards. Hardly anyone in this country cares about their sports.
Perhaps they think he will win Wimbledon.
There is only two players better than Murray (Federer and Nadal) while there is about 4 or 5 (maybe more) teams better than England.
Agree. Spain are the best team but that doesn't mean they will win it.
I would like to state that I was her first backer in this thread!
Lets see if we can get some momentum going!
I was so disappointed with the Giggs thing.
the worse thing about that was the vote begging that went on at Man Utd's home game that day, telling people over the speakers to vote! If only Jessica Ennis had been able to call on those sort of vote rigging tactics, eh?
Actually England are the 3rd favourites to win the world cup. If both were to happen: Murray win Wimb and England win world cup then an England player would win Sports personality, not murray.
giggs deserved to win 100%, he not only won but won by a massive massive margin.
giggs only made the short list by the skin of his teeth, he was literally the bottom name on the list. Rather telling that.
but won the voting by a landslide which is what matters, public's opinion
...or that of the Man UTD who voted for him regardless of his vastly inferior performance in his sport to all the other candidates in the year in question. SPOTY isn't a lifetime achievement award and no way should a bloke who could hardly get a start all season have won over World Champion gold medalists. Even Giggs himself was shame faced as he collected the award. The voting numbers for SPOTY are relatively low and open to manipulation by a club like man Utd telling people to vote a few times a piece for Giggs.
I hope they go back to the old fashioned method of voting it seemed to work much better.
I don't think the BBC will make the mistake of nominating a footballer in future unless they have actually achieved something in that year. Giggs deserves a lifetime achievement award but it was a farce that he should have won it last year when he was basically a reserve team player.
I doubt whether Amy Williams will win , but she will be nominated.
Just accept it, Giggs won it and deserved it cos he got the most votes, he got like 160k votes, 2nd place Button got 102k votes and the 3rd place nobody got 88k. That is a huge margin.
Ryan Giggs because Manchester United have a lot of moronic fans and a lot of them voted for him. He did not even deserve to be on the shortlist IMO.
Take your own advice and accept that a lot of people think the result was pathetic. Only Man Utd fans seem to think otherwise, unsurprisingly.
He was a very undeserving winner and even he knew it - go look at his face when he won. Totally embarrassed to be stood there ahead of those who had truly achieved something on a personal level that year.
The BBC don't do the nominations. The gentlemen of the press do
It is only in the last three years or so that the award has been voted on by a phone in.
If, for instance, the West Brom full back was the only footballer nominated he would win.
The reason why so few footballers have won is quite simple.They have achieved nothing on the world scale , unlike athletes who have to be the very best in the world to be nominated.
Is Wayne Rooney the best footballer in the world ? No. He wouldn't even get in the top fifty.
Giggs won because of Man Utd fans voting for him, not football fans in general. There are a few other clubs with similar levels of support who could do the same if one of their players is nominated, but football fans aren't going to get behind a player unless they have done something truly deserving of the award.
As for saying that Wayne Rooney wouldn't get in the top fifty footballers in the world, even though as a Liverpool fan I am more likely yo be anti-Rooney than most, I can see you are talking utter nonsense there.