I was following the Murray match on my phone, in bed, using Twitter as that seemed to update quicker than the BBC. Anyway, I was surprised to see everyone immediately start speculating about how that might affect SPOTY, as though that was as much an achievement as winning the bloody US Open!
It will be a very competitive one this time, I agree, but it should really just be a bonus for the likes of Wiggins, Murray and Farah.
I'd say the shortlist of 10 would be something like this:
Wiggins, Farah, Murray, Hoy, Kenny, Trott, Weir, Simmonds, Dujardin, McIlroy (if he remains "British"), and Ennis - with perhaps Storey or Ainslie swapped in; then I can see the cycling and paralympic votes being split, leaving the door open for Farah or Murray.