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Like its says, who voted for him!!!


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 10:59 pm
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Not me


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:00 pm
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Aye, whatever.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:00 pm
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Check the excitement in his voice.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:00 pm
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Middle England housewives who got bored of their Henman fantasies.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:01 pm
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I did. Thoroughly deserved too IMO.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:01 pm
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me, and unless I was the only voter some more people must have? 😀


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:01 pm
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The housewives / masses favourite


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:01 pm
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Lots of people I suspect. Good to see Rachel Atherton made it into a highlights reel.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:01 pm
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is it like x-factor?


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:02 pm
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If we could have been bothered we both would have!


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:02 pm
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Was it a fix? Don't be daft.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:02 pm
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just shows you what a moronic set of ****tards the majority of the uk are.........imho ...... 😀


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:04 pm
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He was a main contender and probable winner, but McCoy and Halfpenny runners up? I can see that the general public probably won't vote for Froome, he hasn't really connected with the public the way Wiggins and Cav has, but how the hell could they get ahead of Farrah?

It was definitely a fix when they gave it to the horsey royal a few years back,


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:04 pm
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Bit of a cock up cutting to him before they announced it. Good job personality doesn't actually play a part.

Even though I don't like tennis he has been in the public eye for a very long time which will always help. I actually thought Farrah would get it it.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:05 pm
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I couldn't believe Farrah was outside the top three either. I'd have thought it would have been him and Murray.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:07 pm
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Superb. Arise Sir Andy!


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:08 pm
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They mustv'e had a 2nd trophy wherever he was tonight, just in case he won (which he did, ovbiously)
What if, at the last minute, thousands of people had voted for Mo Farrah, would they have said to Murray, 'soz mate, Mo's won it, not you'

Foregone conclusion innit.


 
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Good job personality doesn't actually play a part.

If Ryan Giggs can win it...


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:09 pm
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What would possibly be gained by fixing it? I didn't vote for him but I knew he was going to win it. Despite him being quite a difficult character to like, I know plenty of people who do and who would have voted for him.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:09 pm
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He was a deserving winner, and while I have no interest in horse riding AP Mcoy did have an incredible year. However I am surprised Farrah didn't make the top three.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:09 pm
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Wimbledon is the tennis equivalent of the tour de France, the one everyone wants to win, so a wait of 77yrs for a home winner is a big deal. Tennis is still popular in this country


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:12 pm
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Limpics are finished so I suppose not so many are interested in Mo's achievements this year.


 
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I was more concerned about the apparent double trophy-how come they had the top trophy there for him ahead of the public voting-it appeared to be the genuine heavy real trophy!!
I can understand that he has a lot of supporters- along with McCoy over the likes of say Mo Farah, just seemed too staged for my liking- and I nearly voted for Halfpenny over Froome.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:13 pm
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Superb. Arise Sir Andy!

Surely not, they hate the English/The Queen.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:14 pm
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You think an event like SPOTY wouldn't have replica trophies available for the times the winner can't be there?


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:15 pm
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Well considering he was a huge odds on favorite with the bookies I don't really see why anyone is surprised by his winning.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:15 pm
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You think an event like SPOTY wouldn't have replica trophies available for the times the winner can't be there?

Careful now, Woppit will start a thread about you.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:19 pm
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just shows you what a moronic set of ****tards the majority of the uk are.........imho ......

You'll need to explain this one tony.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:19 pm
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Not very PC NW-alps-jeyer-aka-boz-2

Or very nice for that matter!

Good on Andy, well deserved in my opinion.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:19 pm
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I said it was him as soon as he was the only person not there that had bothered to appear by video link 😉


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:21 pm
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I though it should have been him. We've had double gold medallists before, lots of Olympic success, but a British Wimbledon winner was pure fantasy not so long ago. Plus the story has been an epic struggle, ever since Henman we've had our hopes raised and dashed every June.

Plus Murray is not really dominant, in a sport that has has some titans ruling it.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:21 pm
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just shows you what a moronic set of ****tards the majority of the uk are.........imho ......

You'll need to explain this one tony.

sorry.....I thought we were talking about the x factor results.... 😳


 
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...and the british public probably think that tennis is one of the few clean sports left too.

no comment.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:22 pm
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Of more concern is how they managed to stretch it out to two and a half hours. I saw it in the schedule, had bad memories of far too many deep husky voice-overs to slow speed montages of mainly unexciting sports events and just couldn't bring myself to watch any more than the last 5 mins.

I am sure when I was a kid and used to watch it with my dad, it was only an hour long, the presenter had a proper moustache and a burtons suit, and you couldn't see past the first two rows of the audience because so many of them smoked. That's what a proper sports awards should be like.

The way they do it know, is what it would be like if the arts and humanities department were in charge of PE.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:22 pm
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Hard as it is for some of the STW masses to possibly comprehend, but I'm fairly confident that a wimbledon victory is at least as important to the general public than a tour de france win, probably more so.

In fact, other than a world cup win, I'm not sure there has been a trophy that has been so eagerly anticipated

Certainly I heard many more people talking about Murray's win than I did wiggo's or froome's


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:23 pm
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Do you think it might be better if they replaced "Personality" with "Person"?


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:26 pm
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ust shows you what a moronic set of ****tards the majority of the uk are.........imho ......

This thread?

I agree - middle English bollocks sadly becoming common on here.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:26 pm
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Anyone else hoping he would go really cray-zee and jump in the pool ?


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:26 pm
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so a wait of 77yrs for a home winner is a big deal. Tennis is still popular in this country

Not so popular that anyone can remember that a brit won wimbledon 36 years ago 🙂


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:39 pm
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Kind of different and didn't she won SPOTY?


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:42 pm
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Ed and Molly said it best. More viewers would have followed Wimbledon than any other 'event' or 'personality' on this year's shortlist. Murray's victory was also epic plus his character, work ethic and single-mindedness cannot be questioned. Well deserved IMO.


 
Posted : 15/12/2013 11:57 pm
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Those rugby people are thick as shite, half of them couldn't dress themselves properly and their family's were goofing around with inane grins on their faces while filming proceedings on their mobiles.
Ohh look at me I'm on telly!
Idiots.


 
Posted : 16/12/2013 12:12 am
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I can't believe people are questioning AM as winner: He deserved it all the way.


 
Posted : 16/12/2013 12:17 am
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Of course he was always going to win. But... Amber Hill. Chapeau! That's all.


 
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