Ever notice how the people nominated for the Sports Personality of the Year award don't actually have a personality?
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Ever notice how the people nominated for the Sports Personality of the Year award don't actually have a personality?
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I reckon they all have a personality, unless Luke Donald has ever been nominated that is.
It does seem quite relevant with Andy Murray.
I used to hate Andy Murray (particularly when he went pro-YES, the treacherous bastard) but in reality he probably just has a boring voice.
How slow a year was it that he won anyway?
[Sir] Kevin Sinfield nearly doing it was lol and everything, but Tyson Fury should have won. We rarely get world heavyweight champions. It must have been the solid Jock vote (plus middle class non-sports fans) that did it for that exclusively-Scottish twat.
Fury, Farrah, and Hamilton were the highest achievers. It's only letting the great unwashed public vote on their 'favourite' that makes it about personality and perception rather than accomplishment.
Rugby league's get out the vote operation is something to behold. I remember a few years back some dirty St Helens team got team of the year, when it was a public vote, for basically just winning the thing that year. Cycling used to have similar powers until they went all mainstream.
I can never figure out if someone is wilfully misunderstanding it to labour a shit joke or not.
Leeds were actually a very good 'shout' for Team of the Year this time (tennis teams lol). They blasted everybody. The Saints seethe was multiplied by them beating the Ryder Cup wasn't it?Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
That Ryder Cup featured probably the worst American team ever, so that wouldn't have been a justified seethe.
Zara Phillips won the main award the same year. I remember SG seething about that.
I had what felt like half a pub lecturing me when I asked why Murray deserved to win it having "done nothing" this year. Lol at people suddenly pretending they care about the Davis Cup.
The mercy was that he didn't win it for Scotland. It would have been tea with President Sturgeon and everything.
She's replaced cordial handshakes and swords to the shoulders with Facebook Q&As and Twitter mentions.
He was the main reason for our Davis Cup win, our first since 1936.
Tokyo Sexwhale.
Could have given them a team of the year thing then, even if it's only tennis which nobody really gives a rats about unless it's Wimbledon.
I still maintain it's a slow year when a tennis player that didn't win Wimbledon wins it.
By any sane measure it would have to be Fury. The man's an idiot, on any number of levels, but how many undisputed heavyweight word champs have we had? It is the biggest individual sporting achievement going. Murray lolling his way past an ocean of players he really ought to beat (did he actually beat anyone any good in the Davis Cup) is no great achievement, it was just a stars aligning type thing. One of the shitheads was probably more deserving, if any of them won a match of any significance.
I really like Murray, but I have to agree that the outstanding British athlete this year was Fury. Or that guy who won gold at the Gymnastics World Championships, but the low profile of the sport knocks him out of it.
Pointless award though. I kind of wish I was an elite British athlete, so as I could blow it off and not bother.
Justice for Lizzie.
Wait, Chris Froome won the Tour de France this year. Him too, then.
EDIT: He's never even polled in the top three.
No one likes Froome and his lanky arms.
Tyson Fury should win it by the force of his name alone.
I'm a bit confused, actually. How is Froome not a national hero?
Clarke Carlisle was alright.
The word 'personality' in the title of this is just an anachronism, isn't it? It's for the person who achieved the most in sport this year, so it should have been Fury.
It's probably a combination of Wiggins, Road cycling only becoming popular in the UK in the past 2-3 years, having a somewhat dour personality, and the fact that he is Kenyan - and only raced for Britain (since 2008) through his grandfather.
Don't mess with the best because the best don't mess.
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Not that it really matters with a general public vote, but isn't Chris Froome regarded as a whinging tosser in cycling circles? The SERIOUS bike people I know are still seething about his selfish antics when 'Wiggo' was the chosen one.
Froome never gets the attention because, first of all, he doesn't seek it out in the same way Wiggins did. The way his relationship with Sky/Wiggins played out hasn't helped, the perception is that he usurped Wiggins who was pretty much a sporting god after the TDF and Olympics (where he was literally enthroned on national television).
Wiggins was a track icon who went and duffed up the French on their own turf all the while presenting a personable public face and having cracking sideburns. Froome is a quiet guy from Kenya who puffed into existence and knocked him off his perch, it's no wonder he hasn't been embraced in the same way.
Bradley Wiggins pretending he doesn't like being famous has always annoyed me, and Mark Cavendish comes across as a bit of a knobhead. The track massive seem alright.
I've always had my suspicions that Cavendish is a twat, not that it matters. Hardly surprising when there's six or seven guys whose job it is to make you win and you're really good at it, that's got to go to your head somewhat.
He's one of the very few sportsmen I legitimately dislike. Everything about him comes across as the worst. Him not winning gold in London after being preordained (and especially the BBC commentary of the race, particularly as they start to realise that it's not going to pan out how they thought) was a small delight.
Funny about the Wiggins/Froome thing. Others think that the year Wiggins won the TdF, Froome would have won it had he not been asked to wait for Wiggins on the climbs. I haven't seen anything about him being a whinging tosser either but I am not a SERIOUS bike person I guess. Also, I have to give Froome credit for releasing his power/VO2 data to try to appease the DOPER brigade, not that it will work of course.
Sports Personality of the Year became a joke end of when Giggs won it
There's one or two Aussies that would fall into that bracket for me. Schumacher is another one, I detested the guy for years because he beat all the drivers I liked but had he been British we'd have been all over him.
The main reason Froome didn't win is probably because we don't care about cycling unless it's in the Olympics. It's obviously a lot more popular than it used to be but I don't think I've ever met anybody who is a genuine cycling 'fan'.
I only know one, even named his son after Wiggins. In fairness he's never off the bike though.
Are there that many genuine tennis fans?
Probably in order of actual achievement it should have been Fury, Froome, maybe Whitlock (although you could make a case for Murray or Hamilton).
No, we're a rare breed. People who belong to tennis clubs are probably nearly as big as the whole group of 'genuine' fans. Compare that to the amount of football fans which is obviously a zillion times as big as just those who play.
The TdF > being the heavylol champion. If it was a proper division like welterweight then it would be the other way around.
If I could find the name of a relevant Mexican wrestler I'd say you were just seething because he hadn't won the overseas award.
Luis Ignacio Urive Alvirde?
Wrestler?
Rey Mysterio killed a guy, that's got to be good for a few votes.
Did he? While wrestling?
While wrestling, guy took a very slightly botched kick to the neck and just hung on the top rope. Stayed there as the match ended, then they went to check on him...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perro_Aguayo_Jr.#Death
Damn.Aguayo died from a cervical spine trauma, reportedly as a result of a dropkick by Mysterio Jr. that propelled him forward to the ring ropes, causing severe whiplash trauma that snapped his neck.
Oh yes, I remember hearing about that now.
I used to box in the gym where the pro wrestlers train. Watching their fat arses spinning around was a good laugh.
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