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[b]Eliot Pollak senses an anti-English agenda at play in recent SPOTY runnings and is banking on the Welsh masses to deliver an upset in the top-three betting.[/b] They say history repeats itself every hundred years or so. 'They' of course are absolutely spot on. In 1913, Emily Wilding Davison hurled herself to her death underneath the King's horse at Epsom, in an attention-seeking stunt aimed at getting women the vote. Nearly 100 years later, who would be surprised if a modern-day Davison didn't suddenly appear, spread-eagled on the floor of MediaCity Salford, inviting Sue Barker's heels to do their worst. Such has been the imbroglio surrounding the male-only names on the 2011 SPOTY shortlist, that the absence of women has dominated all prior publicity (one assumes this was exactly...