Hannah Hampton 9/1 SPOTY

I'm gonna have to sell now

Good luck, a worthy train.

I'm a lot more down with this selection, that I was with your Luke (v Keely) one last year, so gl.

It will be a tough battle I think with Chloe to beat though. I haven't played it either way, just yet, will wait till nearer the time to tie up money and make any decision on it.

She has a worthy storyline and comparable achievement levels for this year, so it's a good start. The only problem is that she is facing a clear potential 'chosen one' story in Chloe.

Yashine Trophy (women): Introduced in 2025, this is awarded to the best goal keeper in the world. Not even Earps has one of these, whoever wins will go down in history as the 1st woman keeper in the world to win it. Hannah is one of 5 shortlisted, she is also the only keeper of the 5 in total, that has been shortlisted for the main award. The Ballon D'or, where there are 29 outfield players and Hannah up for the award.
Can't see her not winning the goalie award, as she's the only one shortlisted for the main award.

If a goalkeeper is nominated it shows they're considered among the top 30 female players in the world, across all positions. Its rare and prestigious moment as goalkeepers are less often nominated than forwards or midfielders.

Chloe is also nominated for the main award but its wise to note when Mary Earps was nominated in 2023 she finished in 5th place out of 30, the highest ever for a goalkeeper in the history of the award.
This was before the yashine trophy existed, its fair to say in its inaugural year its highly likely the goalie will finish fairly high in the main award.
As its decided by 100+ journalists from around the world voting on a points system i think there is a good chance Hannah finishes above Chloe in the final rankings as her heroics in the final was recognised by UEFA, its only the British media going banana's over Chloe scoring the winning penalty.

Anyway, bottom line Hannah is odds on to walk to away with an award...whereas chloe is long odds against.

Thanks yhtl and stu

Yashine Trophy (women): Introduced in 2025, this is awarded to the best goal keeper in the world. Not even Earps has one of these

The clue is in the year it was introduced

If thats the only fault you can find in this thread your're beginning to turn, i'm getting you on the hook

haha I already have her a nice green. I'll be happy with any Lioness winning, but happiest if Queen Chloe wins

The blind leading the blind

14.0 down 9.60

When she wins the Yashine award and beats Chloe in the main award she'll be a lot lower, you've already missed 4 points brushy..don't go missing any more

That's just you :)

Just to put a bit of context into why Hannah should finish above Chloe in the final ranking's for the Ballon D'or and maybe match Earps record breaking 5th place or even finish higher, if the journo's do there job properly that is....here is why she should.

Aside from the fact that Earps didn't collect a single piece of silverware that season and Hannah has picked up 3 domestically in a record breaking invincible season consisting of 22 league matches, which is the most ever played. She also picked up an international title at the EURO's, and was named player of the match.

Ok im just repeating what i said on the other thread but here's the clincher if the journo's do there job, this is why she deserves a very high ranking. Hannah saved two penalty's in the final shootout, one to the left, one to the right but the really important thing is who took those penalty's and why it matters a lot.

Mariona Caldentey took the 2nd pen which Hannah saved, the player who gave Spain the lead in the 25th minute of normal time. Caldentey is an absolute certainty to make the top 5 of this years Ballon D'Or, more like top 3 and has a very good chance of claiming the award.

Aitana Bonmati took the 3rd pen which Hannah saved, this player is the current Ballon D'Or winner and just like her compatriot she two is a total certainty for top 5, top 3 probable and has a strong chance of winning the award for the 3rd straight year.

So not only did Hannah save two pens from 2 of the worlds best players, she also saved 2 of the 1st 3 pens taken..thus putting the fear of god into the 4th pen taker, who just watched two saved from arguably her teams two best players...meaning she struck hers wide of the post.
4 pens taken, one goal scored !!

This has been overlooked imo by the hop and thwack of Chloe scoring the winning pen, take away the excited crowd and let the professionals do there job. They should clearly see what Hannah done was pretty dam incredible.

Come September the 22nd there is a very high probability Hannah would of saved the pen in a final of a major competition from the current Ballon D'Or winner, and the other pen from someone ranked very highly. This to help secure the win for England.

Once the Ballon winner is announced and the ranking's emerge, lets hope the media actually realise the significance of what Hannah achieved in that shootout and give the credit she fully deserves.

Too put this into further context, here is the top 6 from the 2024 Ballon D'Or men's ranking which makes it a littler easier to grasp for any Joey Barton's tuning in to my ravings. What Hannah accomplished in that shootout was nothing short of brilliance on every level.

1 Rodri
2 V Junior
3 J Bellingham
4 D Carvajal
5 E Haland
6 K Mbappe

Total legend

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https://www.tiktok.com/@talksport/video/7536187634935205142?lang=en

She had to level it up coz she couldn't see straight actually think she p!sses spoty after that relevation, gonna go viral over weekend. Chloe's big moment taking the pen is gonna be long forgotten once this gets out properly, only the wokesters moaning....and if they come for her and the hate mob start on her, she may get upset
Generally most are loving it, its a win/win regardless of the fallout.

I've got the alerts set for any posts not by army

I've got the alerts set for any posts not by a Geordie kooont, then this appeared. I need to reset it too any prick from the NE

Lol

Looking at the friendly yesterday, 43 points yet no involvement for kildune at all. Could be a lauren james style red herring. Or does she get MVP just for turning up?

GeorgeBrush 11 Aug 25 22:28 
https://youtube.com/shorts/Oz8uMluModI?si=TESsGCkRkemdJdI0

I see army made a video :)


lol Not enough to stop the nom but she's probably skating on thin ice, her backers wouldn't want to see any more negative press. Her price is still a massive overreaction and will correct from 22nd September.
Scoring the winning pen, being a forward (rather than a goalie) being far more well known down to the 2022 success is naturally why the market dived bombed towards her rather than Hannah. Which is fine, it gives punters the chance to get real value on a live contender.

One thing fav backers need to take into consideration is, there is not a chance in hell a 'super sub' will win the Ballon D'Or over a player who's started most games, clocked up more mins, scored more goals, assisted more goals and received less yellows cards than Chloe (who had the most of the 30 nominee's) and my guess is, as the rating's come in all those facts contribute to low scores and her most likely finishing outside of the top 5.

There is a real chance Hannah finishes above her in the main award if logic plays a part, with Earps finishing so high without winning anything that year. Especially as she played every minute of every match. Regardless of that outcome, Chloe will not be making any headlines. Whereas its extremely hard not to see Hannah winning the inaugural best goalie in the world award at the Ballon ceremony, where she will be most certainly be splashed across many front and back pages...the spotlight all on her with media rushing once again to interview her.

The exposure she gets from this probably still won't be enough to thrust Hannah above Chloe in the public's eyes, so i fully expect Chloe to remain fav but as SPOTY approaches its not the public who dish out the end of year awards. Professional journalists as well as professional sports people do, who should analyse the finer details of the sporting year and make the final decisions.

Lets look at those finer details and any backstory's that often make all the difference as it did with helping Keely win the SJA award which has a massive impact on the spoty panel deciding who makes the list. Example:

The golden glory transpires beyond Hodgkinson’s athletic ability – having lost 95% of her hearing in one ear aged 12, the gold medallist is the perfect role model for young people across the world.

Having overcome hearing loss, disappointment and heartbreak before going on to win Olympic gold, it is clear that Hodgkinson should undoubtedly win the SJA Sportswoman of the Year 2024.

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https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/awards-news/keely-hodgkinson-sja-british-sports-awards-2024-sportswoman-contender-athletics-olympics/

Take particular notice to the keyword 'heartbreak'


The case for Chloe Kelly

Having fallen out of favour with Man City, she was loaned out to Arsenal and fully joined them in January this year. Around this time she did suffer with depression.
Arsenal did go onto win the champions league with Chloe's help, her overall impact though was quite minimal having only played 3 matches and not featuring in the earlier group stages of the tournament her best appearance was the 2nd quarter final where she set up 2 of the 3 goals v Madrid, that certainly helped the team win the tie 3-2 over the two legs.
She was pretty vacant in the semi finals though, she started the 2nd leg and was subbed off and given the lowest rating on flashscores for a starter for that match.
In the final she started and was subbed off after receiving a yellow card, again making no goal contributions just like both games in the semi's.
Over the 5 games she didn't get 90mins in any of them, either being subbed on or off. She basically had one major impact for 1 match of the whole tournament.

Its pretty fair to say her winning SPOTY is all about two weeks over the summer where her impacts in the quarters, semi's and final are well publicised, where she came off the bench and helped in each match.
In the quarters, she set up the 1st goal and scored her pen in the shootout
In the semi's she missed the pen in the 119th minute but managed to get to the rebound quickly enough to tap it into the net
In the final she set up the equaliser and scored the winning pen

With no real backstory a Chloe VT would pretty much boil down to just 4 games, having made no impact at all in Englands group stage of the tournament. I guess as a filler they'd mention her scoring the winning goal when we won in 2022, her being player of the match in the semi's and having a Ballon D'Or nomination.

Is that enough verses Hannah's finer details that have already been mentioned above, and on the other thread. Which will most likely now include a Ballon best goalie award, and hopefully a higher placing than Chloe in the main award.

Do the professionals bow to public pressure and gift the forward all the glory, recognition and attention or do they do there job properly and give to the most deserving ?

Oh the keyword 'heartbreak' attaches itself to Hannah's two part backstory, that of losing her grandad two days before the Euro's started and having undergone many operations as a toddler on her eyesight. Which still affects her to this day.

'Total legend LaughLaughLaugh

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https://www.tiktok.com/@talksport/video/7536187634935205142?lang=en'

That's not going to help her

222k likes and positive comments

Yeah that's really gonna harm her

I doubt it would be put in a BBC Spoty promo spot

SPOTY will also not mention Hannah's eye issues as a child i suspect, just like they did not mention Keely's deafness as a child in her VT. Hannah's VT will mostly consist of the chelsea invincible domestic treble, the euro's and her winning the Ballon D'or. With her playing footie as a kid, which is the norm for most VT's these days. As seen with Keely and Luke running and chucking darts.


Tbh what's in the VT is not the backers main priority coz if we make the list she will win easily as long as she's the only lioness ofc.
Its making the list which matters the most and thats where the SJA comes in, whoever wins this generally has a 95%++ chance of making the SPOTY list. Being awarded Sports Woman of the year by the countries top sporting journalists is the main go to for the SPOTY panel who include similar people, including ex professional sports stars.

The article for each nomination is written by one of the journalists with the added edge they are a massive fan of said person they are putting the case forward for. This is where the finer details will be come into it, the stuff the SPOTY VT will leave out will be most certainly one of the main angles for the SJA write up. As it was for Keely last year.
So things like Hannah losing her grandad two days before the euro's, her ongoing eye issues and being told she'd never play professional sport as a kid and the pressure of taking over from earps just before the tournament will make up half the SJA write up or it dam well should if the fan journalist does a good job. The other half will consist of what will be her SPOTY VT.

So lets not worry about whats in SPOTY, im far more concerned about how her SJA case is put forward to the people who decide sports woman of the year.

This is exactly what i'm talking about, i doubt any of this will make the SPOTY VT....small possibility a mention of her Grandad, if not in the VT. Most certainly when she wins the award.

Bottom line is, all of this should be included in her SJA write up. If past protocol is administered


Released On: 11 Aug 2025Available for over a year
England goalkeeper and Lionesses legend Hannah Hampton joins Nuala McGovern on Woman's Hour fresh from winning the UEFA European Women's Championship. Born with a serious eye condition, doctors told her she should never play football. She came into the recent Euros with questions over her ability to fill the gloves of recently retired Mary Earps. To add to that, she revealed her grandfather had died just days before the biggest tournament of her life began earlier this summer. Despite this, Hannah had an extraordinary tournament, particularly in those agonising penalty shootouts. She joins Nuala McGovern to chat all about it.


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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gztk

Vts will make absolute knack all difference. Unless one of these 2 doesn't actually have one

regarding water bottle gate, she appeared on Lorraine the other morning where this was brought up. It was a very hard watch and she did well not to get upset. She is regretting saying anything coz she is now getting hate messages put up on her grandad's tribute post.
In her head she has gone from hero to zero and is being a little hard on herself, over a jokey comment. Which has produced marmite responses, i'd probably say its 80% positive in her favour, with the wokesters jumping on the bandwagon giving her grief.

I'm certain we've not heard the last from this yet, she appears to have a very good agent getting her a lot of media work. So i am expecting some sought of statement about this soon either via another interview or a SM post.

Hannah is very relatable and comes across extremely well in her media appearances (Littler take note) were currently not seeing Chloe make as much effort as Hannah is, or her agent is not as good. Maybe she's keeping a low profile coz she can't control that gob of hers

We all know who deserves it more, has the better backstory, who the better role model is and the most presentable on tv is.


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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/hannah-hampton-hate-water-bottle-euro-2025-cata-coll-b2806784.html

So what's the conclusion here? Everyone should lump on Hannah to contract the price so you can take some profit?

This small town in derbyshire has you sussed army

Bakewell thinks you're a tart

Now 12/1

Going in the wrong direction not that pleasing, Ballon results soon may reignite Hannah a bit. Depending on how far she gets up the main rankings.
Still can't see Chloe getting above Hannah but we've recently had the England player of the year public vote, which may explain certain market moves. Also i still think there is a good chance both make the shortlist, which only helps Chloe.
One can only hope, Hannah betters Chloe at the Ballon and somehow Chloe wasn't voted England player of the year. Massive case for Lucy Bronze for that imo.
Time will tell.........

Poor squinty. We need some charity to help out these people army abandons like that pretty average pedal pusher from last year

Test

Were only here once bear, its not a test

Some posters are here multiple times

I'm a narcissist

what happens to the market if Hannah finishes higher than Chloe at the Ballon ?

That's my prediction, this years is one of the most open ever...more so for the places, as i see Caldentey pipping the big prize.
The comp in behind her is insane though with a host of Barca players in the running, Russo and Bronze also had far bigger seasons than Chloe over a 12 month period.

Earps got 5th her big year and Hannah has achieved far more this year than she did, there will be a ton of split voting going on and it won't take much for the Goalie to leap ahead of a few with a few top points thrown her way if the international journalists can't pick between the outfield players. You'd like to think some have the goalie as a priority position in there thinking.

My prediction is Chloe finishing anywhere between 6-10th, she doesn't deserve it at all but that two weeks in the summer being the super sub will probably push her into the top 10. She really didn't contribute hardly anything to win the champions league and in terms of goals and assists Chloe was a mile behind nearly all the other attacking players. Whilst being the dirtiest of all the nominee's.

My prediction for Hannah is 4-8th and that's if she gets a fair assessment coz shes almost guaranteed to pick up the inaugural ballon goalkeeper award. I really hope this don't distract from her gaining a high position in the main award, it really shouldn't and she should be treated as a complete separate entity but you never know when it comes to womens awards. Just look at the PFA WSL team of the year, where the Man Utd keeper was chosen over triple winning Hannah. Total bullshine that was

Tbh if Chloe finishes higher than Hannah i won't be shocked but it will surely get my goat !

Players who struggle to get in the first team rarely win a Ballon

It would be like Brushy getting FOTY just for copying Figs bets. 

I will be shocked if international journo's reward her for her England exploits tbh, why do they care about our national team. Most will surely be jealous of it.
she really doesn't deserve to make the top 10 at all.

Bronze, Russo and even Hannah finishing higher than Chloe will put added pressure on the SPOTY panel choosing her.

Ballon is live on TNT monday evening

Market thinks Russo might win

HANNAH HAMPTON IS THE 2025 WOMEN'S YACHINE TROPHY WINNER!

But trounced by kelly in the ballon dor

You gotta be a right loser to finish high on this joke of an award.
A Spaniard who lost two finals wins this year and earps who didn't win a thing her year gets 5th, ah well lovely speech from Hannah

At least i called this bang on

Hannah saved two penalty's in the final shootout, one to the left, one to the right but the really important thing is who took those penalty's and why it matters a lot.

Mariona Caldentey took the 2nd pen which Hannah saved, the player who gave Spain the lead in the 25th minute of normal time. Caldentey is an absolute certainty to make the top 5 of this years Ballon D'Or, more like top 3 and has a very good chance of claiming the award.

Aitana Bonmati took the 3rd pen which Hannah saved, this player is the current Ballon D'Or winner and just like her compatriot she too is a total certainty for top 5, top 3 probable and has a strong chance of winning the award for the 3rd straight year.

So not only did Hannah save two pens from 2 of the worlds best players, she also saved 2 of the 1st 3 pens taken..thus putting the fear of god into the 4th pen taker, who just watched two saved from arguably her teams two best players...meaning she struck her's wide of the post.
4 pens taken, one goal scored !!

Come September the 22nd there is a very high probability Hannah would of saved the pen in a final of a major competition from the current Ballon D'Or winner, and the other pen from someone ranked very highly. This to help secure the win for England.


Aitana Bonmati WON
Mariona Caldentey 2nd

Seems women's football awards about as meaningful as, erm...their football

What's going on with this one army - headline price 9/1 - she's getting matched over 30s now...?

rumour has it, her car is a little slower than her team mate. Didn't get to camp on time for the 1st match and missed an appointment with the SJA.
Thats my little guess, feel free to top up. I have, 50's would be better though

Earps calling her a kernt, not great

Earps is a potty mouth

Nov 1, 2025 -- 10:27AM, GeorgeBrush wrote:

Earps calling her a kernt, not great

I actually think it's a huge positive for her if she manages to get on the list. Earps has come out of this spat really badly and the bbc has posted a few positive Hannah comments.

First time i've thought if both were on the list Hannah would have a chance.

For me, Rory still wins unless there’s a late, organised female-youth mobilisation. If that ignites ( Mead 2022 / Earps 2023), Chloe can make it a coin-flip. Norris only wins if he lands a huge late F1 headline and female mobilisation doesn’t happen.

Rory McIlroy already has broad mainstream support, golf fans, older voters, casual BBC viewers — and his achievement (career Grand Slam) is historic and easy to sell.

Chloe Kelly’s base, younger women and girls, is passionate but narrower and less automatically engaged unless something reignites the “Lioness pride” wave.

In the last two SPOTYs (Beth Mead 2022, Mary Earps 2023) that base was reignited by a massive late-year push: fresh media coverage, documentaries, BBC Sport promos, and a feeling of “we’re making history for women’s football.”

Right now, Chloe isn’t getting that same saturation — meaning Rory sits in front comfortably.

wrong fred

Come back and do some ramping army!!

You'd never want to go to war with army by your side :(

So a chance 2 lionesses get a nom?  Increased by the ashes failure. And squinty a proven vote winner now. I had expected biffa would win. Plus all the earps backlash stuff which came afte this vote

This needs bumping

Watch from 07:47

Hannah pays a visit to the hospital that treated her eye condition to hand out presents and talk about how hard it was for her growing up with that condition and still is.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006v5tb/breakfast

BBC Breakfast remains the UK’s most-watched morning television program in 2025. Audience figures can be measured by daily reach (total unique viewers) or average audience (viewers at any given time):
Daily Reach: The program typically reaches approximately 6.5 million to 6.8 million people per day.

BBC are only pushing the lionesses, no else is getting a look in

How have you turned this into a ramp for Chloe ? 

This is not officially a ramp, as i never placed a bet on Hannah before posting. last bet on hannah was pre short list

Hannah Hampton wins The FIFA Best Women’s Goalkeeper Award
Women's Team
6 minutes ago



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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/hannah-hampton-wins-the-fifa-best-womens-goalkeeper-award

Its Hannah time

Let's hope tomorrow it's Chloe talking about how stress started making her go bald.

lol The beeb are only pushing the lionesses and its bigtime

Im on Hannah watch, its been on the news twice so far

07:47 BBC Breakfast - played in full
09:23 BBC2 News - played in full

Hadn't finished watching it again then before posting last post, after the VT finished the ramping from the sofa was something else. i advise to take a look


goto 3:23.30

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002nhcs/breakfast-16122025

Powerful stuff but this pushing Hannah maybe taking votes from Chloe. I hope they start pushing Chloe now.

It is what it is Henry, they are massively pushing the lioness narrative and no else really gets a mention. Maybe coz they had to split the vote, they now feel obliged to help.

They have vote data from Mead and Earps winning years, plus all the vote data from the WOTY vote for them, including Hannah. That is pretty much a lot of hardcore lioness data and Chelsea voting data.

Both will get considerable votes from there clubs, two biggest in the UK by a mile. Also general lioness hardcore support, which will be topped up on the night by all the casuals who watched the final.

Both being called top 3 is not out of the question

Chloe gets a serious amount of hate online, especially on twitter coz of its hardcore male element.
This tweet is another, but it has been viewed 1.1 million times and still rising
This hate is just motivating her fans and lioness fans even more


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https://x.com/alrightfans/status/2000656146189992301

This is the post BBC sport put up, it has 171k views on there page...which is way above average for general tweets

There is more than enough votes to go around Henry, as ive researched already. Split votes don't stop either winning


Tournament Reach & Engagement
The entire UEFA Women's Euro 2025 tournament demonstrated significant reach and engagement beyond the final match:
Overall TV Reach: The BBC's television coverage of the entire tournament reached 22.1 million people.
Digital Engagement:
16 million unique users accessed the BBC Sport website and app for tournament news.
Content was streamed 15.5 million times across BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website/app.
The BBC Sport website's live page for the final alone recorded 11.4 million views.

Army that little x vid "The self-importance is absolutely mental" has been viewed 1.1 mill times but only liked 2.8K times which is a pathetic like ratio. And she's not talking about herself at all, she's bigging up Beth Mead.

So I'd definitely put that in the pro Chloe catagory - more getting her known/remembered.

Forget the likes Henry, they are haters likes. Even positive posts never tell the full story, nearly everyone watches and moves on with what they watched. Only sad people hit the like button imo its a self importance thing, just coz you don't hit like it doesn't mean you don't support the post or not whatever the case maybe.

Actually the fact it only has 2.8k likes means most who viewed it don't agree with the poster, which is probably what your getting at.

anyway its all very good for Chloe, its 'reach'

Yeah, I was looking at likes as negative - they were reacting to the title.

100%

Im on Hannah watch, current times made the news are:

07:47 BBC Breakfast - played in full
09:23 BBC2 News - played in full
13:46 BBC1 News - played in full - Hannah is the good news story (Hannah was part of the main headlines at the start)

Surprised you've not posted this army

Hannah wins fifa goalkeeper of the year

https://www.allforxi.com/latest-news/11371/fifa-the-best-awards-hannah-hampton-lizbeth-ovalle-aitana-bonmati-and-sarina-wiegman-take-home-awards-and-best-xi

Because even he can't turn it into a chloe ramp

Hannah my biggest green now. Has to be at the price and all the awards she keeps winning

FIFA team of the year as well

armagnac 16 Dec 25 11:06 
Hannah Hampton wins The FIFA Best Women’s Goalkeeper Award
Women's Team
6 minutes ago



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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/hannah-hampton-wins-the-fifa-best-womens-goalkeeper-award

oh sorry army

lol i had to really think if i did or not tbf

Serious vote splitting stuff

In 2025, the order of likely influence for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) shortlist is heavily dictated by a unique summer of major free-to-air events. While traditional "mainstream" sports like F1 and Golf achieved massive milestones, the sheer scale of the Women's Euro 2025 viewership dominates the public consciousness.
Based on viewership figures and media coverage, the following is a ranking of the nominees by their potential to capture the public vote:

1. Chloe Kelly (Football)
Media & Viewership: As the player who scored the decisive winning penalty in the Euro 2025 final, Kelly is the face of the year's most-watched TV moment (16.2 million peak).
Influence: Her status as a "national hero" for back-to-back tournament-winning goals (2022 and 2025) gives her the highest baseline public recognition and emotional "moment of the year" advantage.

2. Rory McIlroy (Golf)
Media & Viewership: McIlroy's Masters victory to complete his career Grand Slam was a record-breaking broadcast for Sky Sports.
Influence: While golf is on pay-TV (limiting raw audience reach compared to the BBC/ITV Euro final), the historical magnitude of his achievement garnered weeks of mainstream front-page news coverage, appealing to a traditional sporting demographic that votes heavily.

3. Lando Norris (Formula 1)
Media & Viewership: His maiden World Championship win in Abu Dhabi was a major global story and one of the highest-rated races in over a decade.
Influence: Norris has massive digital engagement, particularly among younger viewers (Gen-Z). However, F1's primary broadcast is on Sky, which usually requires a dominant season to translate into a SPOTY win against free-to-air stars.

4. Ellie Kildunne (Rugby Union)
Media & Viewership: The Women’s Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham set a world-record attendance of 81,885 and a peak TV audience of 5.8 million.
Influence: As the tournament’s top try-scorer and World Player of the Year, Kildunne represents the huge growth of women's rugby. While significant, her peak viewership is roughly a third of the Euro final, making it harder to beat the football stars.

5. Luke Littler (Darts)
Media & Viewership: Littler maintained high media visibility throughout the year, peaking with his World Championship and Grand Slam titles.
Influence: He has arguably the most recognizable individual personality on the list, but darts remains a niche interest compared to the national "fever" events of the summer, likely capping his total vote share.

6. Hannah Hampton (Football)
Media & Viewership: Hampton shared the 16.2 million audience for the Euro final and won the Yashin Trophy as the world's best goalkeeper.
Influence: Despite her heroics (saving two penalties in the shootout), goalscorers like Chloe Kelly historically draw more attention in a public vote. She will likely split the football vote with Kelly, with the majority going to the forward.

Who wrote this cacbabble?

Andy Indy

Nearly as bad as Jr

Were all guessing end of day

Will golf fans turn up en masse and vote for marmite man, certainly not universally liked in England

Will Lando get that massive youth vote that has been visible the last few years (hard to get youth motivated) if so, he probably wins

Will the women turn up, well the Mead and Earps ones did but how many was that in poor years..not enough for a split vote possibly