Mark Cavendish
Darren Clarke
Alastair Cook
Luke Donald
Mo Farah
Dai Greene
Amir Khan
Rory McIlroy
Andy Murray
Andrew Strauss
I'm not sure why Strauss is there (as an individual rather than a team captain) and unless I've missed something Murray didn't win a major tournament this year. I can think of a couple of obvious replacements, but that would have been expecting too much I guess.
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Love to see Mo win it. Or Dai Greene. Well, one of those 3 anyway!
As LS says i'm amazed there are no footballers on there..............Martin Johnson for coach of the year??
You could argue that none of them bar one (Kahn) are truely English. I hope Mo Farah gets it, although I would love to see Cavendish run him a close second. I'm sure Cav doesn't give a stuff though.
The 'game' players don't hold any water for me. Darren Clark (a fellow countryman) is hardly the epitomy of a sporting icon. McIlroy (another fellow countryman) is an egotistic brat IMO.
Cricketers did well throughout the summer, but I don't see them as top of our sporting christmas tree.
Great to see no rugby union players nominated, and for good reason. I hope the road cyclists deliver on their potential in the next couple of years, that would be a real scoop.
I bet Tom Daley is worried if Tuilagi carries on with his diving career
No Chrissie again
No Jess Ennis ;-(
No Brownlees
No Chrissie
No Pirates for Team award ;-(
Indeed. Shame on them for thinking that a tennis player who doesn't win much, and three random golfers are better than two female triathlon (multiple) world champions.
On the other hand, you don't expect x-factor to find a songwriting genius, so why should SPOTY find the real sports personalities?
Do expect better from the BBC though, but maybe that's old fashioned of me.
Hope Cav wins, but shan't be watching it.
On the BBC sports website it explains how the BBC came to their shortlist. By asking several newspapers, some national some local, and a few magazines, they took the most popular nominees. The Manchester papers had Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes and Patrick Viera FFS!!
A couple had Chrissie and Alistair Brownlee, but the final list appears to be pretty consistant across the board. Lack of publicity, or conversely a glut of media coverage in the more popular sports will always win the day in this sort of thing.
To think I used to look forward to watching SPOTY. Now I see it as cringeworthy as QoS, another that has lost its way..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_personality/15895642.stm
There you go........spot the woman!
Cav is odds on favorite to win with all the bookies
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