Sports personality

THE FIRST ADVERT ON IS A CROSS DRESSING 12 YR OLD BOY.

THE BBC HAS BECOME A JOKE.

public must just think Hamilton's a better driver

Dear oh dear.

bergkamp93 - 'bellend'? ...... 'WHO' are you by the way?

hamilton on red carpet with his dog all over papers tomorrow

oi chaser, me and you going to fall out very soon

@CBurleyESPN: That's what happen when you leave it to the public. Maybe if McIlroy wins all 4 majors and there's no snowboarder around.

Watching the m1 cctv is better than f1.

Seems like everybody had their money on somebody else.........................

can someone let me know who vicki p is

Pollard.

Brilliant Burley. ha ha ha ha.

hahaha!

not me dewey

    2014-12-14
22:27          2014-12-14
20:11     UK BBC Sports Personality 2014 / Winner / Rory McIlroy
Lay

if you dont know who vicky p and you are english, you should be shot just above the eyes.

berto i expected that when i asked first time

im scottish

One wonders if betting opportunities offered by betfair - ie LAYING - can influence the outcome of SPOTY due to **** or underhand voting systems ...

sorry

the dog on red carpet swung it for lewis and he never had his misses with him

you can vote for free online

bots would have been at it

so who the fkc is she

Very funny TheChaser!

No bets here dewey. Too busy losing it on handball, the Peruvian fourth division and elevator squash. Had my nuts on World Champ Lifti Shafti but he lost.

can you not say the word 'r!gged' on here ??

dewey wrote ' if Lewis Hamilton doesn't win this I will sit on our Xmas tree 'bear ar*ed*'

I'm not even an F1 fan - but I like to think I'm not entirely 'stupid'

Definitely be interesting to see a split of the text/online votes imo

MC Roller
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No bets here dewey. Too busy losing it on handball, the Peruvian fourth division and elevator squash. Had my nuts on World Champ Lifti Shafti but he lost.


good bets , i like handball also

r1gged is banned word , yes


whos vicki  p

not her from geordie shore

VICTORIA PENDLETON

Had my nuts on World Champ Lifti Shafti

I'm sure you did

cheers eboue ffs they all holding out here

looked ok on tv , looks ok in photoshoots , with medals spotty head

McIlroy even had the advantage of appearing last just before the lines opened and still got beat.  BBC gave him every chance

Why on earth do people on here think that Lewis Hamilton was 'not' a worthy contender, in fact, winner?.......beyond me.

Hamilton has one guy to beat every 2 weeks ffs.

Rory has 100 top pros to beat.

not as many folk know a golfer in the general public , everyone knows hamilton even

if i asked non betters they wouldnt even know rory if you say hamilton most will say that racing driver NAP

It's about who's motivated to vote not who deserves to win.  Hamilton was the 2nd most deserving anyway.  He secured the ride in the Mercedes because of his talent.  No different in that respect to Tony McCoy.  In this country we like to vote for people who sit on their arse.

Zara Philips for instance didn't even have to secure her ride.  Daddy bought the horse for her.  Like buying a Ferrari up against a range of Honda Civics

My  point - exactly.

It lost all credibility when Zara Phillips won. Truly 'amazing' (as she'd gush).

That showed the demographic of the voters.

*In reply to TheChaser regarding noteriety.

Snap, Clydebank!

Lewis Hamilton won Sports Personality with 209,920 votes, more than 80,000 ahead of runner-up Rory McIlroy. 620,932 votes cast

you've got to be some sort of **** to like F1

k hunt

Mr Eboue - 'Lewis Hamilton won Sports Personality with 209,920 votes, more than 80,000 ahead of runner-up Rory McIlroy. 620,932 votes cast' - 'I' am not in the least surprised at that.

whoever finds out first must be able to get a few quid on or text mates etc

does it say how many they votes are online

where is Charlie , the postman/boxer from the Commonwealth games, he was box office, not got a mention...

Charlie was elsewhere in Glasgow winning his first Pro fight against
a hand picked opponent.

ha ha ha

It was from Scotland tonight. I think they forgot to mention or refer to it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy_TlbvPK0k

The Postman Delivers
Quality, the wee man was hyper after his fight.
That's what you call a personality.

Indeed, Akabula. He was great.

forgot to mention scotland

they played the bonnie banks and all that , chris hoy lifetime achievement at 38 ( we live to 50 max so good to get it over with ) kenny dalglish was on stage and much more

simply red opened the event also

simple minds even

( we live to 50 max so good to get it over with )

Obvious you are from Edinburgh chaser as the life expectancy in Glasgow is only 43.

43 fck me much be a load of chippies selling they deep fried mars bars we all eat , abv only had 4  this week

Talking of Edinburgh me and the wife are through there tomorrow shopping chaser.
Be staying overnight but not sure where the wife has booked other than city centre.
Early start so off to bed, goodnight.

I'll have a darkies walloper and chips please

If the 'Sports personality of the Year' really lived up to its name, Charlie would have won hands down.

checked who flynn was fighting tonight and on on twitter hearn said well done you beat riayz hes no mug , checked him hes won 4 lost 50 odds

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Talking of Edinburgh me and the wife are through there tomorrow shopping chaser.
Be staying overnight but not sure where the wife has booked other than city centre.
Early start so off to bed, goodnight.


if your in centre , ask about THE BAND you may find us

hahaha!

Really wish him the best of luck in his pro career though.

yeah same here hope he does his best

if your at the top hotels ill get you discount akubula

To lose by that margin, surely the way he ditched Wozniacki has played a big factor here

Didn't watch it couldn't give a toss
Saw on the news this morning, think I could only recognise 3 of em.
That Sally bird from BBC said to Hamilton 'those earrings are spectacular'

Just says all you need to know.

The voting figures have been released and they're incredible.  Just 620,932 votes were cast.  With all the fuss that's made I was expecting it to be around the 2 or 3 million mark at least.  Lewis received just over a third (33.8%), so two-thirds didn't vote for him.

messi won the 2012 world player of the year but 59% of people didn't vote for him, not sure that means anything

This show (not programme) has now become the last-word in 'up-the-ar$e' pretension, with only X-Factor to rival it for bombast.

Whether it's Gary Lineker still trying to cut it as a stand-up comedian (word Gary. You can't do 'deadpan' so stop trying and when I say trying I mean 'breathing')to Eddie Butler reprising Gielgud's Lear at Stratford in '52 (his eulogy to Phil Hughes moved me to tears, dahling), the whole thing screams 'Please give me a BAFTA award'.

It wouldn't be so bad if you actually got to saw meaningful footage of those great sporting moments of the year. Instead though you're given fast-cut, worms-eye action sequences that appear to have been done by first year design students on acid let loose on editing software and PowerPoint for the first time.

Throw in the painfully 'right-on' nominations and the fact that as BBC Sport only cover F1 now (the petrolhead demographic being their key constituency now apparently) the Theo Walcott / Andros Townsend lovechild had to win it, lest the whole Emperors new clothes F1-as-interesting-sport artifice crumbled to the floor, you have a turn-off greater than Sam Alladyce in a gimp mask

Brilliant roger.  I might copy, paste and send that.

Indeed Roger, it's transformed from one of my favourite shows as a kid to a complete sell out pretentious love in.  Would have given you 1000/1 that i'd be watching xfactor instead of it 10 years ago but that's how bad it's become.  (I only had xfactor on because I had a bet on it I must add)

I did switch it on for 5 minutes, only to see the Woman's Rugby Team claim the team award ahead of the Ryder Cup and the Mercedes team.  Truly farcical.   Completely in-line with this nonsensical promotion of Women's sport that's happened this year though.

Trouble with the beeb is that instead of looking down on ITV, X-Factor and sneering.  They copy it.  Imo that is not what the beeb is for, People who want to watch sh1t tv have ITV for that precise purpose.

A marvellous summing up, Roger.

I love sport and with only having terrestrial tv I watch almost everything to do with sport shown on it - but I very much doubt I will ever again tune into SPOTY.

That was an embarrassment, BBC.

You should hang your heads in shame for turning out such a trite load of absolute twaddle.

McIlroy looked more than a bit displeased.

- and Sam Allardyce in a gimp mask is preferable to Clare Balding any day.

Book him (and his mask) next year for the main presenting role - and it will get you far more viewers. At least he knows a bit about sport.

messi won the 2012 world player of the year but 59% of people didn't vote for him, not sure that means anything

It reduces the credibility of a vote if the majority of the voters didn't choose the winner.  For every voter who thought Lewis should win, two voters didn't think he should win.

Just too much celebrity b.ollox.  We don’t turn up at the bafta’s and start practising our golf swing, or insist on stopping the Brit’s awards so we can have a little game of keepy uppy.  This should be our night – sports lovers’ night.  But oh no got to get some ethnic music in and a fat comedian to add a bit of glamour.  People that want that should have been watching the X Factor.

who was the fat comedian?

eddie izzard.  Well he's got a fat face.

You must have made a mistake when you cited him as a comedian?
One of the many comedian mainstream TV comedians who have never once made laugh and I like a laugh, the best comedians out there imo don't really do TV.
I think the show has clearly lost its relevance, Ronaldo won the overseas award, I doubt he could care less

oi oi it is scandinavian haven.  Do you remember when you were saying Lewis Hamilton is unpopular because he is black?  How do you explain last night then, for me winning 2 golf majors trumps an F1 title.  What with Rory Mac being white too he should have been nailed on.

Do you remember when you were saying Lewis Hamilton is unpopular because he is black?

yes, but not the sole reason, with a lot of people though it's true, but I didn't say he wouldn't win this because he was black because from past shows including talent shows there has been black winners, I am surprised Mcilroy didn't win because his achievement was greater.

I haven't spoken to a single person who didn't think the whole thing was just cringingly awful.
The biggest mistake the BBC have made, has been to turn what used to be an unmissable review of the sporting year into a glitzy celebrity obsessed awards show, with the actual sport acting as a mere backdrop for the stories/interviews/montages.

I don't think there was more than about 5-10 minutes of sporting action last night.  Eg, the whole Premier League season was condensed into less than 3 seconds - "Manchester City won the title again".

I don't buy it that the BBC haven't got the sport to show.  They covered the six nations, world cup, commonwealth games, grand national, Open championship & masters, London marathon and Diamond League, rugby league, Premier & League football, snooker, darts, cycling etc etc.  But it seems preferable to them to conform to their all-inclusive stereotype to showcase women's and disabled sports to a disproportionate degree for fear of being labelled discriminatory.

Older viewers will remember the days when it was a simple sporting review (about 5-10 minutes per sport) with a few laughs thrown in, and culminating with an award for the sports person of the year.  Overseas and team awards were a later, and welcome, addition.

But now it is so bloated with 8 awards, plus the constant iteration of how to cast your vote, doesn't leave much time for any action in two hour broadcast.  The last few years have reached some awful lows; Miranda Hart presenting awards, lifetime achievement award for Becks at aged 36, laughable winners like Zara Philips and Ryan Giggs, awards for the likes of Eddie Izzard and David Walliams for undertaking sporting charity feats which, whilst impressive, have no place among elite sport.

The same fate has befallen another once much loved sporting favourite, A Question of Sport.   A nauseating "entertainment" evolution of a once great sporting quiz.

I promised not to watch again, after despairing a few years ago, but feel perversely compelled to watch this annual car crash, almost so that I can rant about how awful it has become.

The BBC should either do it properly or not bother at all.  The sad thing is, they'll be sat in their offices today slapping each other on the back over a job well done, utterly unaware that true sports fans feel almost betrayed by them.

Well said Danno.

I've been thinking and SPOTY could almost be an analogy of Betfair in the last few years.

Have a great product that sports fans really love - and then change it, just because "we can".

There are now so many people in serious business positions buying into the hype of 'what can we do to change what people want?' and how they 'should move forward'.

As Paul Calf would say "Bag o' shiiite".

Listen to real people and what they want. You'll be very surprised at the simplicity most desire.

I refuse to watch it nowadays although like many others it used to be the highlight of my television year,however I did catch a glance on the news seeing Lineker,Logan and Balding walk on as though they are gladiators entering the arena ffs,pathetic.

Great post, Danno. Couldn't agree with you more, should vet award winners speeches too as a I had to ask the wife to pass me the bucket for the lowlight of Chris Hoy's toe curlingly awful acceptance speech.

I suppose this thread answers the question "Who watches this tripe"

Brilliant summing up from Roger and Danno.

Its the Cricket and Rugby World cups next year. Expect SPOTY to treat them as equal to the womens football WC, and the Gay Olympics.

what a con

what a con

what a con

Danno - excellent post.  Totally agree.  I really used to look forward to Sports Review of the Year, but I hate what it's become.  Someone on the night described it as a spoof and that sums it up.  All of the faults - celebrity obsession, self-promotion, arrogance and political correctness - confirm every stereotype about the BBC.  Right down to the back-slapping you mention. 

I caught the end of BBC Breakfast this morning.  They were slapping themselves on the back talking about how a Question of Sport is celebrating some sort of longevity record and what a success it is.  Bill Turnbull introduced the segment with something like, "there are Olympic Gold medals and world championships, but many sports people don't feel they've really made it until they've appeared on A Question of Sport."

He was being serious.  WAC. 

Deep Blue
In ’97 I voted for you
As Sports Personality of the Year
I thought at least
You’d get the Overseas
‘cos when all’s said and done
You’re not like some of these
Bad losers on Yahoo Chess

Lost interest after it went all glitzy.

Also the fact that which sports the Beeb covers plays a massive part in who actually wins.

When was this? - by the way.........................just asking.!

1978