BBC SPOTY 2022

[Villa Lew]

The contenders

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/63887059

[lovejoy]

I know he's go some suspect associations and views but if you are judging this purely on sport then its Tyson Fury surely.

[OzVilla]

No Matt Fitzpatrick? So is it just sports the BBC cover then.

[Somniloquism]

I know he's go some suspect associations and views but if you are judging this purely on sport then its Tyson Fury surely.

But it is never "purely on sport" and the man himself as distanced himself from SPOTY in the past so........

[UK Redsox]

Ben Stokes or Beth Mead

[Chris Smith]

I know he's go some suspect associations and views but if you are judging this purely on sport then its Tyson Fury surely.

I think the word “personality” means that it’s not purely on sport.

[manic-road]

I think Ben Stokes is a shoe in.

[paul_e]

Gotta be Stokes, the turnaround in the team has bene incredible.

[Dave Cooper please]

No Matt Fitzpatrick? So is it just sports the BBC cover then.

Ben Stokes?

[cdbearsfan]

I know he's go some suspect associations and views but if you are judging this purely on sport then its Tyson Fury surely.

I think the word “personality” means that it’s not purely on sport.

No, it doesn't. It's just a way of avoiding saying "sportsman" or "sportswoman" as the awards date to before "sportsperson" was the standard neutral term.

[cdbearsfan]

I think Ben Stokes is a shoe in.

He isn't. Beth Mead is at odds of 1/25.

[cdbearsfan]

Anyway, can we please have Jon Crofts complaining that it should be a cyclist? It's tradition, FFS. ☹️

[lovejoy]

Anyway, can we please have Jon Crofts complaining that it should be a cyclist? It's tradition, FFS. ☹️

Pidcock

[lovejoy]

I know he's go some suspect associations and views but if you are judging this purely on sport then its Tyson Fury surely.

I think the word “personality” means that it’s not purely on sport.

So you are thinking Beth mead is more of a personality then Fury?
To be honest this went from my favourite tv show to not watching once they gave it to giggs as a lifetime achievement award - that worked out well.

[Simon Page]

Anyway, can we please have Jon Crofts complaining that it should be a cyclist? It's tradition, FFS. ☹️

Pidcock

Those saddles are a deathtrap.

No anglers again I see. Bloody woke BBC, still refusing to recognise bear-baiting and squirrel-taunting as legitimate sports.