It's quite funny how people GAF about the SPOTY. Not saying I'm immune to it either - but let's face it it's a pretty meaningless title, and the programme is usually cringe personified. WIggo should still get it though.
There's a lot of well meant, but potentially patronising and condescending comments about paralympians.
+1
I think the paralympics is a truly fantastic thing, but for various reasons it just isn't as high a level of competition as the regular olympics - less participants in all the sports (especially with the different categories of disability) so less competition for places in teams, less money available for intense training programmes etc.
Saying 'yes but they're all so terribly brave' and pretending it's just the same is patronising in the extreme IMO.
how ever the key for me was the news saying "murray emulated fred perrys 1937 victory"
at the end of the day at least murrays got a bit of personality and id be happy for him to win over a pansyballer but wiggos done something thats never been done before , something folks said he would never do when brailsford announced it back then (my self included)
and hes got personality about him speaking his mind rather than what his publicist has to him to say
