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Andy Murray looked so uncomfortable standing there with a rictus smile at the end .ironically just watched Wimbledon on bbc 3 ( the film ) with Paul Bettany as Peter Colt. Not so long ago we thought it fantasy for a british guy to win Wimbledon.so Murray really has transformed British tennis to be fair .well done to him and Alastair Brownlee and massively well done to Nick Skelton.
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Murray was always going to win, shame he can't be arsed to turn up. And I know he's 'training' in Miami, funny they never go to train in somewhere less glamorous.
I'm glad Nick Skelton got into the top three, I'm old to remember Nick being the Pony Club pin up and daring to beat the like of David Broome and Harvey Smith. Plus watching his event ion the telly not expecting to win was the highlight of the Olympics for me. Purely personal but yes it was. |
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For the record, tennis doesn't get any lottery funding for the Olympics
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Wonderful irony in the fact the winner of BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR - a Mr. Andy Murray - has zero personality. If anyone was born without a discernible personality it's him!
Class tennis player, though. |
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Murray was always going to win, shame he can't be arsed to turn up. And I know he's 'training' in Miami, funny they never go to train in somewhere less glamorous.
I'm glad Nick Skelton got into the top three, I'm old to remember Nick being the Pony Club pin up and daring to beat the like of David Broome and Harvey Smith. Plus watching his event ion the telly not expecting to win was the highlight of the Olympics for me. Purely personal but yes it was. As for equestrian events.......................shouldn't it be the horses who get the medals - after all, they do all the work.
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Of course, if England produced a world class sportsman like we have, they might have a better chance of winning the thing.
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I remember this show when it used to be called Sports Review of the Year. It was an occasion. It was proper BBC stuff. Then they changed it to Sports personality and this awful SPOTY acronym started appearing. It became all about the main award. The shortlist of athletes got bigger and bigger. Most of the people on the shortlist obviously have no chance of winning.
It had some dignity when it was filmed in a BBC studio. Now it's just a big overblown, overlong, tedious arena show. Why have they got singers? I thought it was supposed to be about sport. Perhaps Andy Murray should be retired from the shortlist now, he's won it three times, and this was an Olympic year when "Team GB", (I hate that, why not just call it the British team?) won lots of gold medals. Not that I'm saying he isn't a deserving winner, he is, but it's boring. I'd have voted for Nick Skelton if I were the sort of person that votes in these sort of things, but I'm not. |
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I don't understand how, in prime time television, with free voting on the website, it's possible for there to be less than 1 million votes, only 54k for mo? He deserved at least number 2/3 considering his amazing achievement this year...
Easy to see why the public don't warn to him. Is Somalian. Lives and trains in the US. His coach has been caught up in a drugs scandal but nothing proved against Mo. I believe he missed 2 out of competition drug tests, one more and he would have been banned. Publicity around being a tax exile, but that also applied to previous winners like the F1 drivers including Hamilton. But more critically it's a personality contest and Mo just doesn't come across well on TV. Murray under guidance I am sure from his management company now comes across much better than the grumpy personality when he started, helped more today being married with a child. Where I am more surprised is Sophie Christiansem (dressage) beating Laura Kenny to be top female in the vote. It shows the horse fraternity turned out to vote as with Skelton. I was sure Laura would beat here as seems to get much more publicity, and recent TV appearances and wedding should have helped. |
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Murray was always going to win, shame he can't be arsed to turn up. And I know he's 'training' in Miami, funny they never go to train in somewhere less glamorous.
I'm glad Nick Skelton got into the top three, I'm old to remember Nick being the Pony Club pin up and daring to beat the like of David Broome and Harvey Smith. Plus watching his event ion the telly not expecting to win was the highlight of the Olympics for me. Purely personal but yes it was. There's always one isnt there. |
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Wonderful irony in the fact the winner of BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR - a Mr. Andy Murray - has zero personality. If anyone was born without a discernible personality it's him!
Class tennis player, though.![]() Surely only in Britain could we label someone won has won 3 Slams, 2 Olympic Golds, almost single-handedly won the Davis Cup, current No. 1 all during a period with many all-time greats playing as having no personality! |
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Considering that it's the Australian Open coming up soon, there wouldn't be much point doing cold weather training would there?
As for equestrian events.......................shouldn't it be the horses who get the medals - after all, they do all the work. ![]() There are equally hot and humid places to train and acclimatise rather than Miami. Similarly would it harm his preparation for an event over two weeks away to give Birmingham a visit to be able to accept such an award? It's not the first time he couldn't be arsed to turn up. His attitude has always been suspect and this constant snub of this event does little to endear him to many people. I have seen how much he has worked to overcome the seemingly sullen git of a few years ago, but once again accepting an award from another location is starting to seem like an insult to both the event AND those who support him and voted for him. |
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Your ignorance of equestrian events and horses in general is frankly staggering. I'd love to see you get on a horse ANY horse and get it to move. That would be hilarious.
There are equally hot and humid places to train and acclimatise rather than Miami. Similarly would it harm his preparation for an event over two weeks away to give Birmingham a visit to be able to accept such an award? It's not the first time he couldn't be arsed to turn up. His attitude has always been suspect and this constant snub of this event does little to endear him to many people. I have seen how much he has worked to overcome the seemingly sullen git of a few years ago, but once again accepting an award from another location is starting to seem like an insult to both the event AND those who support him and voted for him. smiley means.Once you've done that..................try and get out more. |
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Your ignorance of equestrian events and horses in general is frankly staggering. I'd love to see you get on a horse ANY horse and get it to move. That would be hilarious.
There are equally hot and humid places to train and acclimatise rather than Miami. Similarly would it harm his preparation for an event over two weeks away to give Birmingham a visit to be able to accept such an award? It's not the first time he couldn't be arsed to turn up. His attitude has always been suspect and this constant snub of this event does little to endear him to many people. I have seen how much he has worked to overcome the seemingly sullen git of a few years ago, but once again accepting an award from another location is starting to seem like an insult to both the event AND those who support him and voted for him. To be fair to the guy that came in 3rd place he shouldn't have been there in the first place. Equestrian is about as much a sport as lasagne is. |
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This opera on BBC Four sounds like less of a shambles then SPOTY tonight, The winner won it three years in a row. A kick in the teeth for the Olympics people and will not be watching it again.
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Wonderful irony in the fact the winner of BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR - a Mr. Andy Murray - has zero personality. If anyone was born without a discernible personality it's him!
Class tennis player, though.1. Everyone has a personality, and the successful athletes will be hard-working, prepared to put themselves on the line, and bundles of guts and tenacity. Personality is not just about vacuous giggling and cracking jokes. 2. There are two definitions of personality, one being a "celebrity or famous person," so are you saying Murray isn't famous? The award is not for the best stand-up comic who owns a pair of shorts. Quote:
Murray was always going to win, shame he can't be arsed to turn up. And I know he's 'training' in Miami, funny they never go to train in somewhere less glamorous.
I'll admit, it seems a bit more strange with Mo, because his next race is months away, but I have no issue with him training somewhere nice, If there isn't anywhere suitable close to home and you have to travel away from home, why should you pick somewhere horrible? |
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Your ignorance of equestrian events and horses in general is frankly staggering. I'd love to see you get on a horse ANY horse and get it to move. That would be hilarious.
There are equally hot and humid places to train and acclimatise rather than Miami. Similarly would it harm his preparation for an event over two weeks away to give Birmingham a visit to be able to accept such an award? It's not the first time he couldn't be arsed to turn up. His attitude has always been suspect and this constant snub of this event does little to endear him to many people. I have seen how much he has worked to overcome the seemingly sullen git of a few years ago, but once again accepting an award from another location is starting to seem like an insult to both the event AND those who support him and voted for him. Perhaps the reason he is number 1 in the world and has won SPOTY 3 times is because he puts his sport first. I voted for Ali Brownlee but pretty much everyone on the shortlist would have been a deserving winner so happy for AM to win it. I really don't think us mere mortals have any clue what goes into getting to the level of these athletes. |
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To be fair to Murray, he might not have a great personality but anyone who saw his appearances on Mock the Week will know he's quite happy to have his leg pulled, self deprecating about his weaknesses which endeared me to him.
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I remember this show when it used to be called Sports Review of the Year. It was an occasion. It was proper BBC stuff. Then they changed it to Sports personality and this awful SPOTY acronym started appearing. It became all about the main award. The shortlist of athletes got bigger and bigger. Most of the people on the shortlist obviously have no chance of winning.
It had some dignity when it was filmed in a BBC studio. Now it's just a big overblown, overlong, tedious arena show. Why have they got singers? I thought it was supposed to be about sport. |
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Clearly you need to take some time out. Perhaps an hour or so. Just so you can look through these forums and find out what the
smiley means.Once you've done that..................try and get out more. |
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I've got to admit I love a sporting montage, and would rather see that than a studio celebrity shoot-out, but there didn't seem any proper rhythm to them. Some were date related, so we got stuff happening in January, then February etc, but then there were montages with clips of the Olympics and Paralympics spread throughout the evening, but generally made up of very, very short clips of 'moments' rather than telling a story. It really was a case of blink and you'll miss it, or if you follow a particular sport or athlete not in the nominations list, you'd have clips spread across a number of montages.
Last year, they dedicated sections to the best performing athletes from particular sports, or groups of sports, so there was more cohesion. I love that the BBC try to include as many sports as possible, including para-sport, but most were short-changed. |
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If you can't say something without a smiley don't bother.
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How the hell did Usain Bolt not win the Overseas award?
![]() Nothing against Simone Biles but Usain should have been a dead-cert surely? ![]() The only thing I can think is that he's won it 3 times before and they have a cap on 3 wins or something? |
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It feels far too long now....
I was bored by 8pm, the fawning was cringe to watch |
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I was glad they did something in remembrance of Muhammed Ali but was disappointed they didn't do something similar for Johan Cruyff. Arguably the greatest European footballer of all time and all he got was a 1 second clip of his turn.
I guess they didn't have time for a longer tribute what with Robbie Williams having to promote his new single...
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I was glad they did something in remembrance of Muhammed Ali but was disappointed they didn't do something similar for Johan Cruyff. Arguably the greatest European footballer of all time and all he got was a 1 second clip of his turn.
: I like Cruyff, but he can't compare to Ali on a global scale. |
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Ali transcended sport. His life touched so many other things going on during his time. He's a much, MUCH bigger icon than Cruyff ever was or ever will be.
I like Cruyff, but he can't compare to Ali on a global scale. |
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Class tennis player, though.

