[Politics] BBC Sports Personality of the Year Official Thread

[Questions]

She wasn't disabled, gay (as far as we know) or a person of colour.
So not sure why she was ticking boxes.

Women should have their own SPOTY. WHY DO THEY HAVE TO ruin ours.

 

[atfc village]

Its all a load of bollocks

and bollocks to it all.

 

[dazzer6666]

British public turning this into yet another farce of a result. All the wimbledon luvvies voting for a young woman who has won one major tennis tournament. Probable the same people who voted buffoon Johnson into power.

Sporting story of the year, obvious winner. Amazing the level people will go to to turn a thread political

Who would you have chosen ?

 

[atfc village]

I saw Glenn Murray in M&S today

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I saw Bobby outside a shopping centre in Sevenoaks on Thursday . Sevenoaks?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

She wasn't disabled, gay (as far as we know) or a person of colour.
So not sure why she was ticking boxes.

She's part Chinese, part Romanian if that helps ( not that it is the slightest bit relevant).

 

[Questions]

Anyway sexism apart did anyone else admire her sporting athleticism…….

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Anyway sexism apart did anyone else admire her sporting athleticism…….

Log out and go and brush up on your fake search warrant technique by rewatching Denzil and Ethan in Training Day before someone ends up kicking your door in brandishing a Chinese takeout menu. Be the hunter, never the ill-prepared hunted.

 

[jakarta]

Guy Martin and the Lancaster was excellent as ever.

Confirmed to me he is somewhere on the Spectrum when he said the job on a Lancaster he would have liked was to be the Rear Gunner.

Was also honest to say he wasn't bright enough to be Aircrew and he would probably have been an 'erk'. If so I'll bet the Merlins on HIS Lanc would have been the sweetest on the Squadron...

 

[BN9 BHA]

Absolutely. Personally, I hate absolutely everyone who disagrees with my views on any subject. It could be sport, politics, Brexit - it doesn't matter. What I like to do is just dismiss everyone who dissents from my opinion, usually calling them "idiots" and the like.

You make an outstandingly astute point, which I must agree with. It seems blatantly obvious to me that anybody who voted Emma Raducanu SPOTY clearly also voted Conservative. That is just quality, crystal-clear logic.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Tories actually secretly plotted, conspiring with a shady cabal of "Wimbledon luvvies" in order to fix this competition in favour of Ms. Raducanu. It's the only possible solution that makes any sense.

10/10

 

[Dave the OAP]

Sporting story of the year, obvious winner. Amazing the level people will go to to turn a thread political

Who would you have chosen ?

Sarah storey. By a country mile

 

[timbha]

Sarah storey. By a country mile

Who?

I should qualify this not as a flippant “who” but i don’t follow every sport, etc, etc and can genuinely say I hadn’t heard of her (just googled her - undoubtedly a high achiever but not SPOTY for me).

 

[Napper]

Anyway sexism apart did anyone else admire her sporting athleticism…….

Very much so . Very pleasing on my TV set …. Not that I watched

Nice box ticking throughout really . Well done to the corporation and a fantastic year of sport

 

[mikeyjh]

Tom Daley second, before Adam Peatty, wow, what are people thinking!
Emma Raducanu is probably right.

Quite - A bloke who's there or there about at the olympics etc v a bloke who earlier this year had the top 20 times in his event EVER. Nobody else has done that before. He absolutely dominates his event, Daley not so.

Strictly on sporting achievement maybe, but in terms of exposure and popularity, tennis is on another stratosphere to swimming. I imagine that Emma has won more prize money than Adam ever has, in just her first year. She is a global superstar. This is a ‘personality’ award rather than best achievement.

That doesn't work though does it - If that was the case, what is Sarah Storey even doing on the list? That is not to decry her incredible achievements in any way but most people (even people really in to sport) will struggle tell you what she does, or pick her out in a line up. I actually think people miss understand the word 'personality' in the title, it's used in the same sense as the 'P' in VIP rather than as in someone's personality, otherwise how the f*** did Andy Murray and Ryan Giggs win?

All that said, despite my general loathing of tennis, the sport for people who don't like sport, Radacanu is the worthy winner.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Quite - A bloke who's there or there about at the olympics etc v a bloke who earlier this year had the top 20 times in his event EVER. Nobody else has done that before. He absolutely dominates his event, Daley not so.



That doesn't work though does it - If that was the case, what is Sarah Storey even doing on the list? That is not to decry her incredible achievements in any way but most people (even people really in to sport) will struggle tell you what she does, or pick her out in a line up. I actually think people miss understand the word 'personality' in the title, it's used in the same sense as the 'P' in VIP rather than as in someone's personality, otherwise how the f*** did Andy Murray and Ryan Giggs win?

All that said, despite my general loathing of tennis, the sport for people who don't like sport, Radacanu is the worthy winner.

I'm no Tennis fan - the only worse sports are basketball and Dressage - but I even left the pub early to watch ER in the final. Given how piss poor we've been at Tennis, especially women's, for my lifetime at any rate she is a worthy winner. The nominations in general looked like they've been picked by people who don't watch sport. Daley wasn't even the best British olympian and got his Gold in a pairs event but somehow gets 2nd and Stirling is maybe borderline arguable nomination on his Euro form but hardly on his club stuff. As for Southgate, coach of the year, it's best I don't get started as I've got Christmas shopping to do.

 

[arfer guinness]

Alex Scott looks like she put on quite a few extra pounds. Still she looks better than Claire Baldwin.


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And if she tries really hard she may one day become half as good as Clare Balding.

 

[bomber130]

True but given the chance who would you want on your face.


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[arfer guinness]

True but given the chance who would you want on your face.


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Gabby

 

[bomber130]

Gabby

That’s a good call


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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Pure box ticking from the BBC

Regards
DF

Did the BBC have a vote?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

True but given the chance who would you want on your face.


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This thread's going well.

If you just wanted a J Arthur, there is plenty of sauce on the internet, so I'm told. And you have my blessing to not have to report back