I think they are a pair of twats who compete in an utter toliet sport.
I always have snooker in the long winded category of:-
[MENTION=3788]Barrel of Fun[/MENTION], we deffinitely disagree on the snooker not being a real sport issue. For me it is one of the technically hardest sports to play.
I am voting this year, for the first time, and it will be for this man.
Not just for winning it, but the circumstances of winning it. Behind so often, fought back and then in the final when he had it almost won, back to level pegging and to go again and win it... Seriously special achievement. Bradley Wiggins would be a worthy champion, Jessica Ennis has been THE sports personality this year in terms of her public appearances and everything around it, but what Murray has achieved makes him a worthy winner. Gold medal at the Olympics against THE greatest in the sports' history just to top it off, and the Wimbledon final as well.
For me Murray is only really there because we're so shite at tennis due to it being by and large a toffs game where only the privileged seem to progress to pro level here. Having said that I'm not a Murray basher and think his achievements this year have been superb, especially when he's unfortunate to be playing in era alongside 3 of the all time greats of the game. I like him for speaking his mind and for being overcome with emotion like he was this year, but for me he's not achieved enough considering who he's up against in SPOTY.
Ennis has been brilliant and lived up to the high demands and expectations placed upon her as our poster girl for our Olympics. That's some pressure to carry over two days of intense competition and she performed superbly! However, for me Mo's achievements are greater because of the events he competed in. Yes Ennis has to do 7 compared to Mo's two, but the 5,000 & 10,000 double at an Olympics is bloody amazing! Not only because of the physical demands but because perhaps more than any other athletics events in these two you have to get it tactically spot on, and under the huge pressure and weight of expectation of a home Olympics as the favourite, that's not easy to pull off.
Wiggins has to be the winner for me though. Yes, I'm a cycyling fan, but just in terms of achievement his has been by far the greatest of any British sportsman for as long as I can remember. He already had a quality CV going into this year but to win the greatest cycle race in history is just something else, British or otherwise. Add to that the fact that he also won major stage races like Paris-Nice and the Criterium de Dauphine this year too,as well as the Tour de Romandie, and you see just how big his achievements have been. All team work you say?, well what about the Olympic Time Trial Gold medal as well then, just days after winning the biggest and most punishing, physically and mentally, race of them all!The fact that he done all this in one season and is British is phenomenal, yet even a rider from any number of the 'proper' cycling nations would be immensely proud to have achieved what Wiggins has this season.
Wiggins, Farah, Murray would be my vote, with Ennis a very close 4th.
Stellar national performances on the international stage are like Brighton home games.
