BBC Sports Personality of the Year - VOTE PANESAR!!

[Gritt23]

Fletcher called him the best finger spinner in the World, and he is one of the very very few British sportsman who has had me out of my chair cheering this year.

Vote Monty.

 

[Man of Harveys]

No.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

if he called him that why did he include giles apart from the catching and batting bollocks

 

[Gritt23]

No.

Oh, ok then.
And your vote will be going to ..........

 

[Gritt23]

if he called him that why did he include giles apart from the catching and batting bollocks

There's no "IF" about it.

Why? That's pretty much what ALL cricket fans are asking jaz.

Panesar - Best in the World says Fletcher

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

My vote will, once again, be going to Number 306.. GEORGE POLLEY !!! ....... (cue, various blasts on air-horns)

 

[Captain Pugwash]

There's no "IF" about it.

Why? That's pretty much what ALL cricket fans are asking jaz.

Panesar - Best in the World says Fletcher

i give up with the way this countrys sport is going. the 'leaders' and the 'coaches/managers' have lost the plot.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Oh, ok then.
And your vote will be going to ..........

Darren Clarke, by a mile. The Ryder Cup was the most enthralling, most nakedly emotional sporting event I can remember for a long time and his efforts personified that.

 

[Hiney]

Darren Clarke, by a mile. The Ryder Cup was the most enthralling, most nakedly emotional sporting event I can remember for a long time and his efforts personified that.

Can't really argue with that.

 

[Billy the Fish]

If Clarkes wife hadn't died then he wouldn't even be in the running, it's just a sympsthy vote. Joe Calzaghe has turned in the best sporting performance of the year, that should be enough to win it hands down

 

[Common as Mook]

If Clarkes wife hadn't died then he wouldn't even be in the running, it's just a sympsthy vote. Joe Calzaghe has turned in the best sporting performance of the year, that should be enough to win it hands down

Nail. Head.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Rightly or wrongly, boxing has, I would say, seriously faded in terms of the public's sporting attention - it's more than a bit crooked, people die doing it etc etc. And - just IMHO - if Monty wasn't a Sikh nor a plainly very nice, decent bloke who might - just might - be at the beginning of a decent enough test career, there's no way he'd be getting the attention that he has or would be up for this award. Paul Collingwood's double ton in Australian was a bigger achievement than anything Monty's done so far but he's not been nominated.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

On Darren Clarke

Sport is not just about winning (which the team did). Clarke showed great gusto and courage to take part after the tragic loss of his wife. I can imagine it would be a struggle to get out of bed let alone play golf in front of the world, yet he found the courage to play and win as part of a team. The sheer joy, relief, sadness, elation at completing the cup was one of the greatest sporting moments I can think of.

 

[Gritt23]

Darren Clarke, by a mile. The Ryder Cup was the most enthralling, most nakedly emotional sporting event I can remember for a long time and his efforts personified that.

It would have been my vote too except he has said he doesn't want a sympathy vote, and I take that to mean he only wants a vote if his sporting achievements in 2006 deserve it.

 

[Da Man Clay]

On Darren Clarke

Sport is not just about winning (which the team did). Clarke showed great gusto and courage to take part after the tragic loss of his wife. I can imagine it would be a struggle to get out of bed let alone play golf in front of the world, yet he found the courage to play and win as part of a team. The sheer joy, relief, sadness, elation at completing the cup was one of the greatest sporting moments I can think of.

Nail. Head.

 

[Man of Harveys]

A sympathy voter would say "I'm only voting for you because you did nothing much but, hey, your wife died". I'd vote for him thinking "I'm voting for you because of the superhuman strength, courage and guts of your performance in the Ryder Cup, all of which came despite your wife dying". There's a big difference.

 

[Brovion]

Bollocks to all that MoH. I'm voting for Monty to piss off Fletcher.

 

[Scoffers]

This has always slightly amused me, they call it "BBC Sports Personality of the Year", but what does that mean? the person with the best personality?, if you take the logical and literal sense, so they dont have to have actually achieved anything, just be an attractive personality !!!

Now, if they'd called it , Sports Person of the Year, that would be different. In my cricket club, we have a Player of the Season award where we actually add up the accumulated Man of the Match points from each game of the season, and whomever comes top, wins - now that makes sense, but Sports Personality, is just plane silly, IMHO

 

[Scoffers]

Bollocks to all that MoH. I'm voting for Monty to piss off Fletcher.

Now that is logical, I can go with that, and by jove, I will vote that way!!

 

[Man of Harveys]

Bollocks to all that MoH. I'm voting for Monty to piss off Fletcher.

Like he'll give a shit.