[Closed] BBC Sports Personality!!!!

STEVEY PEAT!

fair point tootin

it's garbage in my opinion. steve should be there for the win and the amount he does for local charity and young up and coming riders. wiggins should be there for the best result an englishman has had for years, yes what's his face won some stages and there's no denying the incredible effort that that must have taken but........

Button to win and Murray runner up.
Valentino Rossi for overseas spoty.

i saw tootin post and thought peaty had made it!! 😥 i like tennis and wish murray well but he should not be on that list, and cavendish is dubious in my opinion he won a few stages not the whole thing, he didn't even get green albeit unfairly. Giggs well i guess his longevity gets it and he comes across as a nice chap.

But no peaty and almost a dead cert win for that smug **** button, hope haye takes it knocking down that giant was an amazing feat.

might get shown the door for this but i really do think that motorsport should have its own thing.how can you have no wiggins and no peat when you know full well it will go to a guy that drives a car.(i know dead fast and all that).

The "why no Steve Peat" or any other British world champion downhill Mtber's comes up every year. Outside of the sport how many people have heard of SP ? about two or three maybe. I'll be voting for Cav easly Britains most exciting cycling talent.

My vote goes to Beth Tweddle..

it still amazes me when I speak to non-MTBers (even some MTBers) who have never heard of Peaty. Thats why he won't win it.

Its even IN SHEFFIELD!!

Button will get my vote - by a long way

How sh!te is that! I was looking forward to Peaty at least getting nominated. He was never going to win but his career spans decades, half of that lot will be on i'm a celeb next year.

Too right tails Cav only has 16 grand tour wins and milan san remo in two years, **** all mate.You keep waiting till he ****ing wins one of them 🙂
And wiggo he'll be down the boozer[code].

Ryan Giggs get my vote.

Don't care if that goes against the prevailing STW opinion. 😛

When you look at what has been actually won this year by the ten personalities up there it's ridiculous.

Alistair Brownlee or Steve Peat have had more significant wins than the lot of them added up!

I'll not bother voting for that list.

Matt

It says personality not most worthy champion how can you expect people to vote for someone they haven't heard of.

jamie bestwick!

Jessica Ennis

[i]i really do think that motorsport should have its own thing.how can you have no wiggins and no peat when you know full well it will go to a guy that drives a car.(i know dead fast and all that). [/i]

Er... And what happened last year then?

Considering past winners have been such sporting luminaries as
Greg Rusedski, Princess Royal and Zara :evil:Phillips!!! I think it's not a bad list.

If it's for achievement, then Giggs is miles ahead of the others, especially when compared to most of the 'stars' in the P'ship. He's been at/near the top of his sport for nearly 20 yrs. I know everyone hates football and especially Man Utd, but Giggs will be remembered for decades.

It's criminal that Peaty isn't nominated!
Who gets my vote................Giggsy! One of very few modern footballers with an ounce of dignity. *Please note that this is from a Leeds fan* Well done, Ryan.

Lifetime Achievement - Steve Peat

And no doubt there are loads of other sportsmen/women who have excelled in their sport too but they aren't in the running for exactly the same reason as SP - because there isn't the mainstream interest.

Hardly unexpected I've been leading a lobby of the news papers and journos to get Peats name at least listed to little joy.

Because the show is in Sheffield the Beeb have indicated they are likely to have him on the show for the year review and at the recent South Yorkshire Sports Awards he won the top award whilst pitched against 4 other podium contending local world champions including the bobsleigh woman and the Heptathlete who is on for the vote for SPOTY. Yorkshire Post sports journos who were one of the regional selectors were hardly patriotic missing him of their list so I will not be wasting the opportunity to pee on one of their issues next time i am in Yorkshire

Yes Ed2001 I only think he should have been nominated if he had won green. Oh look whats that a green dummy.

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Button will win, though in fairness, Ross Brawn should be up there with him when he collects the prize!

Strauss second
Haye third

Agree with Matt-bl one of the most amazing sports successes this year has been Alistair Brownlee's total domination of the world triathlon winning all 5 of the races he entered including the Grand Final, and he's only 21!

Apart from that I think Jessica Ennis would be a worthy winner, but we all know that Jenson will get it.

ermmmm.....I once watched a MTB race on the TV which Steve Peat won. Was just about the most dreary bit of TV imaginable. Ours isnt a great spectator sport peoples.......

Why will Jenson Button get it? Hamilton didn't win it last year.

mcboo, tbh it's all about the funding the coverage gets that dictates how exciting it is to watch. And it isn't any more or less exciting then just about every other sport represented in the SPOTY top ten.

pfft, Peaty deserves it the most.

This year it might as well be the Button personality of the year

Hamilton would have won easily last year if it wasn't an olympic year

There is no way Cav will win it because road cycling is just not on the (BBC) radar.

Wiggo would have to win the TDF to get in. Thats not to say that his achievement is not just as good as the other candidates.

Steve Peat? who? Never heard of him.

Cav gets in because he is by far the best in the world at his discipline (which is not green jersey per se, but flat sprinting). Wiggins has not reached that point.

Don't know why anyone would think "driving a car" unworthy, other than ignorance of what F1 involves physically.

[i]Don't know why anyone would think "driving a car" unworthy, other than ignorance of what F1 involves physically. [/i]
I think the clue is in the title. '[b]Sports[/b] personality of the year'. I think a lot of people think that this means winners/people on the shortlist should participate in a [b]sport[/b], which the car drivers clearly don't.

which the car drivers clearly don't.

no physical effort or fitness required then?

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people on the shortlist should participate in a sport, which the car drivers clearly don't.

[i]no physical effort or fitness required then?[/i]

you're right, that should be the only criteria. Let's include Tesco shelf-stackers in SPOTY too.

Like I said, ignorance. If you think there is no physical dimension to F1 you are ignorant. Not a clue.

would you say that its the athletic performance that gets the win in f1?

How do they arrive at the shortlist, is it by public votes or BBC with there Non Biased impartial charter! Ha! yeah right! and what the **** is Ryan Giggs doing there, MU supporter need not reply. If Sky were doing the Sports personality of the year then a few more cyclists would make the shortlist.I have not studied who else did not make the shortlist but its obvious the most televised personalities get on there, unfair biased IMO.

How do they arrive at the shortlist, is it by public votes or BBC with there Non Biased impartial charter!

[b][i]SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR - Main Award

Voting details and criteria are below.

Nomination process of contenders for final 10:

The nominations are provided by a panel of over 30 leading sporting experts from a selection of newspaper sports editors (national and regional) and magazines.

This process begins on Monday 2 November and ends on Friday 13 November. The sporting experts will be asked to name their 10 contenders in alphabetical order and not in any order of preference. [/i][/b]

F1 is not [i]exclusively[/i] a test of athletic performance, because there is all of the other sport skill too, such as coordination, tactics, aggression, technical understanding… all the stuff that adds up to world class driving. But without an extraordinary fitness level you can't drive an F1 car at all. Even to be a passenger in a two seater you need a medical.

Coulthard related this season how when he raced at Hungary once he crashed the car half way through the race purely because he was so tired he couldn't physically hold on to it any more. And that was an experienced, super-fit F1 driver.