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Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: SheffieldVillain on November 26, 2013, 07:42:32 PM
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The nominees have just been announced - who's your pick?
For me - 1. Ainslie, 2. Murray, 3. Froome
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Murray will win by the biggest distance in SPOTY history.
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Still no Phil Taylor?
Wankers.
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Murray - no doubt at all.
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Murray will romp it, I would have liked to have seen Mo win.
I predict -
1 Murray
2 Mo
3 Sir Ben
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Ten contenders have been shortlisted for next month's 60th BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Athletes Mo Farah, Christine Ohuruogu and Hannah Cockroft are included along with tennis star Andy Murray and cyclist Chris Froome. Golfer Justin Rose, sailor Sir Ben Ainslie, jockey AP McCoy, cricketer Ian Bell and rugby union player Leigh Halfpenny also make the list.
Mo Farah, hands down. Or up, pointing towards his head.
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Surely Andy Murray this year?
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Ryan Giggs surely?
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I voted Phil Taylor in the other thread.In this thread I vote Alan Hutton.
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Not a Racing fan, but it has to be McCoy.If not then Murray.
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Murray has been odds on favourite since the summer.
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This topic also has a thread in sports arena- Murray by a distance for me.
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I won't personally vote for the personality-less twat but Murray will win in for being first Brit to win Wimbledon after so long.
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It's an outdated, old-fashioned event. I avoid it like the plague.
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There's already a thread on this.
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I'll say what I said on another thread - its an old-fashioned, outmoded event that is pretty pointless these days. Didn't Nigel Mansell win it one year?
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I put a bet on Mo at 8-1 couple of months back on the off chance Andy Murray will call an umpire a ******.
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Still no Phil Taylor?
Wankers.
Good. He's a horrible moaning sex pest.
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No, that would mean he'd developed a personality. I confidently expect the winner of this year's "Andy Murray Hasn't Got a Personality (but can play sport a bit (when he isn't sulking)) Award" to go to Andy Murray.
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It's an outdated, old-fashioned event. I avoid it like the plague.
Tend to agree, Chris.
Sports people, these days, earn a fortune get MBE's, OBE's and even Knighthoods at the drop of a hat, so SPotY probably means very little to them.
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Don't particularly follow tennis, most of today's tennis players seem devoid of personality compared to the likes of McEnroe, Nastase et al in their hey day. Do wonder whether if the same media exposure of today was around back then if they'd have seemed so interesting though.
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Is this Murrays last chance to win ?
670 pages and Alex Salmond says nothing about SPotY ?
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Still no Phil Taylor?
Wankers.
Good. He's a horrible moaning sex pest.
He may wll have sexually abused one of his groupies in the back of a caravan in Scotland and had his OBE stripped following the court case but the former ceramic toilet handle maker is the finest man what ever chucked tungsten.
If there's any justice in life, him and Bob Nudd would be battling it out for SPOTY year in, year out.
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Still no Phil Taylor?
Wankers.
Good. He's a horrible moaning sex pest.
He may wll have sexually abused one of his groupies in the back of a caravan in Scotland and had his OBE stripped following the court case but the former ceramic toilet handle maker is the finest man what ever chucked tungsten.
If there's any justice in life, him and Bob Nudd would be battling it out for SPOTY year in, year out.
Not really, that would be 'who is the most successful sportsperson in the country' which is different, spoty should be a reflection of the person who has had the largest effect on the public. Wiggins becoming the first ever british tdf winner last year was massive, Murray winning the mens title for the first time in donkeys years is equally massive and was reported as such.
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I know. Although the words "personality" and "Andy Murray" are rarely used within a few paragraphs of each other.
I'll grant you Wiggins - a winner with a personality, but Murray? listening to him being interviewed is like listening to a teenager who spends his life in his bedroom, giving monosyllabic answers to his mother.
Not that I'm remotely interested in Sports Personality. Don't even know why I'm posting on the subject
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I agree Murray isn't exactly an exciting person but he had a very exciting achievement this year, and that's why he'll win.
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We need a ballot-stuffing campaign in favour of Ian Bell
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I wouldn't begrudge it to Murray, Froome, Rose or Ainsley, but although it is supposed to reflect the last twelve months I think overall McCoy deserves it for his entire career achievements including this year. Obviously for personal bias I would go Bell.
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Still no Phil Taylor?
Wankers.
Good. He's a horrible moaning sex pest.
Did he repel your advances?
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He may wll have sexually abused one of his groupies in the back of a caravan in Scotland and had his OBE stripped following the court case but the former ceramic toilet handle maker is the finest man what ever chucked tungsten.
If there's any justice in life, him and Bob Nudd would be battling it out for SPOTY year in, year out.
I'll give you Taylor but fish torturing isn't a sport.
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Murray has to win it and he will. I wont be watching though as I fear the Beeb are rapidly disappearing up their own arse. It's not that the show is particularly bad but over the last 5 or so years the show gets rammed down your throat as if it's something that is so worldly important it must be mentioned every hour of the day. It matters very little in the scheme of things and should get the appropriate promotion in the weeks and months leading up to it's airing, not much at all.
Not only that the Beeb now have this very annoying tendency to promote their other programmes during such as SPOTY. I had to watch the results of Strictly on Sunday night. Something that should have taken 15 minutes at the most padded out for God knows how long with some dancing and music about cakes with the finale revealing a judge from that Bakery programme. What's the betting there'll be a few sportsmen spinning round in ball room dress in this year's SPOTY?
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I wouldn't call it "fish torturing", more like "maggot drowning" whenever I try it. Although I have occasionally managed to outwit a fish.
If fannying about on a boat is a sport, then so's fishing
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I can't remember the last time I watched it. Maybe about twenty years ago.
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Let's see, how many Villa fans are on that list?
No further questions, m'lud.
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I'd love it to be Ian Bell but it will probably be Andy Murray and well deserved too.
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I'll merge the threads and create the option to select up top 3 nominees.
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Still no Phil Taylor?
Wankers.
Good. He's a horrible moaning sex pest.
Did he repel your advances?
No, that's why I don't like him.
Whenever I hear somebody shout "one hundred and eighty" now it brings back painful memories.
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I watch SPOTY every year, its a Christmas tradition
best moment ever was when they bought Mohammed Ali on a few years back,
he could hardly walk and as he shuffled on to the stage the whole audience gave him a standing ovation,
don't think it had ever happened before, maybe only for the winner of the trophy if that, although there have been a few since, including Taylor if I remember correctly
but even amongst the countries greatest sportsmen of the day they recognised true greatness
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Has to be Andy Murray.
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He hasn't got a personality.
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He hasn't got a personality.
he's not bad at sports though
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He hasn't got a personality.
You're still hung up on the "personality" I see.
I'd have thought it was pretty obvious, over the past few years, that "personality" wasn't a huge requirement to win the award. It's more just "sportsperson of the year".
Or we're you just being "funny"?
Murray deserves it every day and then some.
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What exactly are you going on about?
Sportsperson of the Year would be a perfect title.
Interesting use of speech marks with a rogue apostrophe in what should have been 'were'.
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In fairness I think it's pretty difficult to gauge somebody's personality when they play sport at the highest level. You generally only get to hear them speak when they're exhausted after a game or before a match when they don't want to say anything controversial for fear of firing the opposition up or making themselves look stupid if they go on to lose.
Better wait till they've retired, or at least gone a bit shite, to judge whether they have a good personality. Steve Davis is a good example, everyone used to think he was as dull as a Stoke vs Greece friendly, now he's gone rubbish everybody loves him!
And I prefer dull to those who attempt to cultivate a personality like the ubertwats Holloway, Barton and virtually every boxer.
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Slightly off topic, but has anyone noticed how Adnan Januzaj has been shortlisted for the youngsters award, despite only playing a handful of games?
Pretty shameless attempt to get him to commit his international future to Ingerlund.
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Slightly off topic, but has anyone noticed how Adnan Januzaj has been shortlisted for the youngsters award, despite only playing a handful of games?
Pretty shameless attempt to get him to commit his international future to Ingerlund.
I thought that too. Isn't this just for brits and he's Belgian/Kosovan. Also he has started 6 and scored 2 goals. Is that enough?
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Murray will win it, hands down.
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Non Stanford not even on the shortlist, pretty poor show considering the BBC covered every aspect of the ITU world championship this year.
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I see they have used this programme to make up an award to give to Fergie. Surely by now it doesn't matter to butter him up as they do not need to interview him after the game. Maybe they need the Devonshire reds viewing figures as they do not have any other footballer up for it.
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Ignorant Scots twat can't even turn up on time.
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The Fergie wankfest begins. Make it stop.
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The Fergie wankfest begins. Make it stop.
Sickening. Right, now he's had his last arse-kissing, can Ferguson fuck off now?
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Imagine if he died, it would be like Diana all over again.
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Ridiculous, a ridiculous love-in for SAF.
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Nauseating, truly nauseating. Was that TSM behind him?
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So many more worthy winners than him, where do you start?
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So many more worthy winners than him, where do you start?
Beat him.
Or win something else that GB hasn't, for years.
What are you like at Downhill Slalom? (As distinct from uphill)
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Feel really sorry for Chris Froome. Wiggo stole his thunder really, but I think his achievement is more remarkable than Leigh Halfpenny, for example. No offence to Halfpenny, but he was part of a team that got more than enough recognition. I don't think people realise what it takes to win a Tour de France.
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So many more worthy winners than him, where do you start?
Beat him.
Or win something else that GB hasn't, for years.
What are you like at Downhill Slalom? (As distinct from uphill)
Win Wimbledon 5 years on the trot.
Win the RWC for the first time
F1 world champion what was it 7 times?
There's a few without thinking, but no, we went for the easy option fucking Ferguson.
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Feel really sorry for Chris Froome. Wiggo stole his thunder really, but I think his achievement is more remarkable than Leigh Halfpenny, for example. No offence to Halfpenny, but he was part of a team that got more than enough recognition. I don't think people realise what it takes to win a Tour de France.
True, but he's no Jolly Naughty Wiggins is he and that's what wins votes.
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BBC sport have been up his arse for years. It wouldn't surprise me if they had the casting vote on where the new BBC centre would be built.
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How on earth is that Januzaj in the young sportsmen of the year running?
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Feel really sorry for Chris Froome. Wiggo stole his thunder really, but I think his achievement is more remarkable than Leigh Halfpenny, for example. No offence to Halfpenny, but he was part of a team that got more than enough recognition. I don't think people realise what it takes to win a Tour de France.
As a fan of Welsh rugby, I must admit that I'm a little taken aback by Leigh Halfpenny finishing 2nd. Froome's achievement was great, but Mo Farah following up double Olympic gold with double golds at the Worlds and breaking a world record this year surely deserved to be in the running.
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Farah is unfortunate, but so is Froome - it's incredible that neither of them got into the Top 3.
A double world athletics champion and a Tour de France winner!
And to think not so long back, we were giving them to the likes of Greg Rusedski (beating Tim Henman into second place) and Zara Phillips. Damon Hill won it twice - but only won the World Championship once.
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The year Ryan Giggs got it for being Ryan Giggs was a low.
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I was enjoying it last night and then had other things to watch so recorded the last hour. So happy I did. Spun over a load of crap that I wasn't interested in, started to watch the Ferguson thing but I couldn't take the Man United wankfest so I spun over that too.
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How on earth is that Januzaj in the young sportsmen of the year running?
A pretty blatant attempt to get him to commit his international future to England.
"Look how much we all adore you Adnan. That game you played in was really great. you even scored two goals against the mighty Sunderland. Please play for England, we have absolutely fuck all young talent of our own"
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How on earth is that Januzaj in the young sportsmen of the year running?
If you want Alex Ferguson, Sir Booby and the rest to turn up to a BBC event then you need to do something for Yanited.
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I hope next year's event is held in Beijing, the spiritual home of English football.
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Anyone else with a tear in their eye at Sue Johnston and the Hillsborough bit?
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Anyone else with a tear in their eye at Sue Johnston and the Hillsborough bit?
Incredible woman, quite how Alan Hansen kept it together was beyond me.
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I remarked to the wife that Hansen was wobbling. In a wobbly voice.
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The year Ryan Giggs got it for being Ryan Giggs was a low.
Or the year Ryan Giggs got it because Ryan Giggs hadn't already won it.
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Where did Belly finish....do they actually tell you?
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Where did Belly finish....do they actually tell you?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sports-personality/25386015
Scroll to the bottom of the article to find the information.
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Where did Belly finish....do they actually tell you?
Last.
I suspect he'd have done better if the current series hadn't been such an unmitigated disaster.
Andy Murray 401,470
Leigh Halfpenny 65,913
AP McCoy 57,854
Mo Farah 51,945
Sir Ben Ainslie 48,140
Chris Froome 37,343
Hannah Cockroft 26,151
Christine Ohuruogu 13,179
Justin Rose 9,833
Ian Bell 5,626
Total votes 717,454
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Cheers for that....and you are likely correct about the current series affecting his total.
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Chris Froome must be gutted too. Only two Brits have ever won the Tour de France and he has to pick... the year after the other Brit won it!
Still, it's certainly an improvement on the years we gave awards to Greg Rusedksi for losing a final, Princess Anne for being Princess Anne or Ryan Giggs for not having succumbed to old-age yet.
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The margin between 1st and 2nd was interesting with Murray getting almost 8x the amount the guy who came second got.
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I'm surprised Justin Rose got relatively few votes.