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Offline SteveN

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #285 on: December 16, 2018, 09:25:08 PM »
Right man won.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #286 on: December 16, 2018, 09:26:29 PM »
Congratulations to his pharmacist.

Offline Chinchilla Bathhouse

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #287 on: December 16, 2018, 09:42:04 PM »
Can't see beyond Geraint Thomas

Well he is quite wide.

Just saw a picture of him and he's not. To be honest I've never heard of the bloke. I only like football and cricket. I just assumed that as he was a Welshman called Geraint he must be an egg chaser, hence he would be wide and that joke would be very clever. I was wrong and I apologise.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #288 on: December 17, 2018, 09:03:18 AM »
Disappointed to see a shit BCFC flag in the audience for the 3 lions anthem!

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #289 on: December 17, 2018, 09:54:36 AM »
Disappointed to see a shit BCFC flag in the audience for the 3 lions anthem!
I'm sure Gareth Southgate wearing his Villa tie, did just enough to wind them up. Plus they were all singing the Gareth Southgate song, they weren't all noses.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #290 on: December 17, 2018, 10:23:42 AM »
In the deceased section as well as the ones already mentioned, it also reminded me of the well known footballers from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s we lost this year, Roy Bentley, Kevin Beattie, Paul Madeley, Alan Gilzean, Jimmy Mcilroy, Ray Wilson and Jimmy Armfield.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #291 on: December 17, 2018, 11:07:46 AM »
The more I think about it, the more I think Jimmy should have won. I have no problem with who made the top 6. But I think Yarnold should have been second because she's a Ever, as in the greatest Brit ever in her sport. Jimmy though is just an Ever, not just Brit. As in the the most successful fast bowler ever.

Offline Damo70

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #292 on: December 17, 2018, 11:16:41 AM »
I didn't know who won so I just Googled it. It showed a picture of the winner and my immediate first thought was that Kevin Kilbane was a strange choice to receive the award. Apparently it is some bloke who rides a pedal cycle but sounds like he should be a rugby player.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #293 on: December 17, 2018, 11:29:51 AM »
Yeah I voted Jimmy - no-one will pass his test record for a fast bowler.

Dina has been great but not global championship as yet.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #294 on: December 17, 2018, 11:56:13 AM »
I haven't seen the vote totals but hopefully it wasn't even close. G was clearly the best candidate.

Jimmy should have been on the list for 2017, when he reached 500

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #295 on: December 17, 2018, 12:01:55 PM »
or this year when he became the greatest

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #296 on: December 17, 2018, 12:21:34 PM »
Not sure what the cyclist has done that's so special. Did he just win the Tour De France, don't we always win that? Agree that Anderson was a better contender, but Lizzy should have won. She is our greatest Winter Olympian. Ever.

For some reason the only Winter Olympians that ever get any recognition in this country are the ones involved in incredibly tedious Icy Dancing.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #297 on: December 17, 2018, 01:30:22 PM »
Go and ask the French how easy it is the win the Tour de France.  Liverpool have won the league more recently than a Frenchman has worn the maillot jaune on the Champs-Élysées.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #298 on: December 17, 2018, 01:51:07 PM »
The French aren't allowed to enter Sports Personality of the Year. They never win the World Snooker Championship, either, but we don't doll out awards for that.

The cyclist didn't achieve anything special. He did what we always do, winning the Tour De France.

Lizzy won a second Winter Olympic Gold Medal. Something no British Winter Olympian has ever done before in nearly a century of trying. She was robbed.

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Re: BBC Sports Personality Of The Year
« Reply #299 on: December 17, 2018, 02:17:39 PM »
Yep, our cycling program is amazing, the awards that have gone to cyclists over the last 15-20 years are all a consequence of that but then surely Yarnold as the 3rd (and 4th) British Skeleton winner in a row is in the same situation.

Personally I'd have given it to her as recognition of that programme.

 


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