Spoty 2026 starts here

He'll be long forgotten by December, easy and obvious max red

Struggling to remember him now

Skeleton Bob...

2nd gold for Matt, nicely built up by comms who didn't have
a clue, and his price went out to 30,and now into 12.

11.5 and falling

Had 3/10ths to catch up in relay, and was faster
than German blokes anyway, caught up shortly after
start, lol, comms still building him up... Claire balding.

Feb 13, 2026 -- 9:57PM, timbuctooth wrote:

He'll be long forgotten by December, easy and obvious max red

Yes, it's a long time but England would need to win the World Cup or Lando Norris the Formula One title. There's no women's football this year or women's rugby to get in the way. If Rory wins the Masters again he'd be in with a shout. Struggling to see any other possibles.

Hmmm, not following the Olympics, not knowing he had prospects of a second gold, I might have been a bit premature... Still, awful long way to go, plenty of time for him to drift, for the usual suspects to do their thing, or other unheralded runners to achieve something unexpected

Keely Hodgkinson has broken the long-standing women's indoor 800m world record, set by Slovenia's Jolanda Ceplak on the day the Briton was born almost 24 years ago.

Olympic champion Hodgkinson crossed the line in one minute 54.87 seconds in Lievin, France, taking almost one second off Ceplak's time of 1:55.82 which had endured since 3 March 2002.

Bruce Mouat and his rink have guaranteed Team GB's fourth medal of these Winter Olympics after seeing off unbeaten Switzerland 8-5 to reach the men's curling final in Cortina.

The British quartet - who are the reigning world champions - will face Canada in Saturday's final (18:05 GMT), looking to upgrade the silver medal they won four years ago in Beijing.

But that is the least these four Scots will achieve in these Games in Italy.

Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan and Bobby Lammie came here top of the world rankings and targeting nothing other than what the emotional skip called "our gold medal" in the immediate aftermath.

And for all they struggled in the round robin and only earned their place in the medal-matches thanks to Italy losing on Thursday morning, they now stand one step away from achieving that ambition.

"It will be the biggest match of our lives and we're so excited to get that opportunity again," vice-skip Grant Hardie told BBC Sport.

Jock alert lol

Useless jocks.

lol

If Keely could have a stellar year in the Diamond League and perform in the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship in September, she'd be in with a shout. I'd be having her and Matt Weston on side.

Probably better off laying weston than backing everyone else lol

Weston is an odd case for SPOTY - in terms of just this year he's a massive lay - yeh he won a gold, but in a sport that is minority in the extreme. Fanbase size?

But there's something of a lifetime achievement aspect to it - he's the most decorated winter olympic athlete for UK of all time.

What does that make odds around 7/1 - back or lay? I'm hedging to a small back at this price, as there's some margin for error, and might not be much strength if the footy guys mess it up. Keeley is a dark horse, but she has no Olympic win or outdoor world title to hit this year.

She does have this new version of a ultimate world championships though - not sure if that counts or not?

A nice 100 for Harry Brook in world cup

Probably not his year, but surely one to note
for future.

Kane is on fire for Bayern. So so good. Great chance of the Balon d'or

Ronnie o'sullivan makes a 153 break, not winning spoty with that
but sets up publicity going into world champs and, IF he won world
championship, he might earn a nomination...

Josh Kerr wins world indoor 3000m gold

He's owed a nom.

Why is he not even listed yet on exchange

Keely Hodgkinson made further history by becoming Britain's first women's 800m world champion - indoors or outdoors - crossing the line more than a second clear of her rivals in one minute 55.30 seconds.

That triumph wrapped up 28 minutes of success after golds for her training partner Georgia Hunter Bell and pole vaulter Molly Caudery on a sensational Sunday for the British team.

Rory wins masters again.

Justin Rose also matched quite short, in play final round.

6.4, what's that about.



Harry Kane in semi final of champions league and has
scored 50 goals this season for Bayern.

BEAU INTO THE QUARTERS! ⭐

Beau Greaves is through to the quarter-finals in Milton Keynes, impressing once again with a 6-4 victory over Czechia's Karel Sedlacek!

Beau Greaves is through to her first ever Players Championship final, as Beau and Arrow beats Gary Anderson 7-1, winning seven consecutive legs, and averaging over 105 in the process!


Beau Greaves becomes the first women EVER to win a Players Championship title, as she beats Michael Smith in an excellent last-leg decider with a stunning 142 checkout to win it!



Beating three former world champions, hitting a 170 checkout in the final and pinning a 142 in the deciding leg while her opponent was sat on D10. And all that while becoming the first woman to win the title

There are few better ways to win a title than how Beau Greaves just has



Quite an achievement, but not spoty worthy on its own.

Overseas spoty contender

Sabastian Sawe breaks two-hour barrier to make history in London Marathon

    Kenyan wins men’s race in 1hr 59min 30sec

Bayern crash out in semis... no ucl for kane

Saka, rice still in running, and join kane for world Cup.

Arsenal still shooting for Epl too.


Hearts on course for Scottish league, and scotland
have nice draw at World Cup to get beyond group stage
could be one to watch if England blow out.

Rory could win another major again today, unlikely but possible

Rai set to become first Englishman to win US PGA since 1919

Wanamaker trophy one of the lesser majors, but rai needs adding.

Lovely trophy BTW.

Aaron Rai.

Still wide open innit.  World Cup hero, keely, rory again if he won the open seem most likely to me. Russell looks doomed, antonelli just a bit quicker and a lot more aggressive. I wouldn't be surprised if a jock sneaks in

How far do engerland need to go before Kane goes odds on?

How far does Fery need to go...

Semi and another goal might be enough for kane

Fery available as a lay spoty and back Wimbledon at 3x the price. He's also French lol

Could win spoty without winning wimbledon though, plucky loser etc. Depends on world cup obviously.

I would be sceptical of that.  Nobody really knows who the ferk he is

Yes rusedski did.  But that was before muzza spoilt us

Canadian and French different rules

Was ****, thanks for the lays

The footballers taking 55+% of the book, a 1.8 dutch; the value call's gotta be max red them all

It's a fair call, but unlike that french gimp kane or belly to win even after a sf defeat is possible

Win the semi and one is nailed on

Would certainly narrow the field.


Different rules but Bobby moore won in 66.

Kinda surprised that they're only 64% now, not too drastic a shortening, was expecting worse. Whether a decent (but losing) semi performance from either of the two market leaders would be enough, who knows, but even if they win the whole thing with, for example, one winning the Golden Boot, the other scoring the last-minute winner in the final,  there's always the prospect of both of them being listed, splitting the vote, letting Rory or A.N.Other sneak through. A bit optimistic, perhaps, but I'm assuming my book won't be looking too good for a while, necessitating five months of damage-limitation-trading ahead for me.

The list is so thin
Rory would need an open win to compete, keely a world record

If they make the final it's all over though, they are favs to beat the argies now

I'd hope belly wins. He's been a 9 for the tournament, kane only 7 or 8

Josh kerr attempts the world mile record on saturday in london on the bbc. Chance if the ballers get knocked out tomorrow. He's not even listed ffs.

Nobody gives a toss about him

Same could be said for fery or 90% of the field but we might get a lay price come saturday night

Tim wins this round.  I'm still keen on Bellingham

Like mbaps for golden boot at these odds

He could be up against Dan burn :)

As you've said, getting to the semi might be enough and the market's certainly not writing them off, so not over yet.
Anyway, new max red is Matt Weston; 8.0? WTF is that all about???

Messi 8/13, Mbappe 13/8; just one assist behind but with Messi facing the mighty Spain while Mbappe faces a demoralised England, he's certinly the value call

Yeah weston is absolute fluff. How does he beat Bellingham? Who remembers who he is? Rory seems too short too, hens teeth winning a second one in a row

Belly should be in team of the tournament, kane no chance

Belly clipped one of the argies round the heed. Should be 1.8

Better get josh kerr added

New world record!!!

oh look he's at 10 lol. hope everyone got on at the books when i posted

Lay of the year!

I'll be waiting for army's analysis later in the year before laying

I made a real mess of this market last year, I managed to turn a fair sized green on McIlroy into a red last year, so I told myself not to get involved this year.

just had a few small tenners so far

I (and the market) thought Bellingham was a non runner after he slapped that argie, but he's just scored again like a boss in the WC 3rd place play off, In from 24's to...

BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2026 -- Winner

57 Runners            £60,256 Matched

				107.1%		52.2%
-£39	Rory McIlroy	6.2	6.4	6.6		9.2	10.5	11	£6,871
		£10	£3	£1		£3	£5	£2
£51	Matt Weston	6.4	6.6	6.8		10.5	11	14.5	£12,602
		£8	£3	£3		£2	£140	£2
-£39	Harry Kane	8	8.2	8.8		95	100	120	£12,619
		£9	£21	£1		£1	£1	£20
£66	Jude Bellingham	6.2	6.4	7		9.2	9.8	11	£7,643
		£11	£2	£52		£7	£7	£3
-£39	Lewis Hamiliton	14	14.5	16		26	28	36	£1,264
		£10	£1	£3		£2	£10	£4
£42.2	George Russell	12	13.5	15		30	36	60	£2,903
		£1	£7	£1		£2	£10	£1
-£39	Luke Littler	18.5	20	21		80	85	95	£2,087
		£11	£3	£2		£1	£3	£3
-£39	Keely Hodgkinson	21	26	30		190	1000	-	£1,791
		£4	£15	£3		£1	£3
-£39	Tommy Fleetwood	14	20	21		40	65	75	£622
		£5	£24	£5		£12	£5	£4
-£39	Moses Itauma	60	75	80		190	-	-	£315
		£5	£1	£4		£1
-£39	Josh Kerr	7.8	8.2	8.4		20	48	65	£905
		£26	£40	£9		£26	£1	£7
plus 46 more runners not listed above, at odds of over 100

Of all these 6/1 shots I still like belly the best

Getting a bit radgey with useless kernt tuchel does no harm either

There's a Jock vote in there this year isn't there - unless they ignore Kerr (again!)

Men's mile world record is a big on for the athletics buffs too - had to speculate slightly on him given all factors.

Get an army thread on him and he should be no bigger than 2/1

Jude wins if nominated. Simple

How could he win this by winning nothing

Most ever goals scored at WC by an England player is his "win"

You're reaching now, or trolling

Golden ball maybe but not scoring an extra goal in 3rd place game

I ain't saying I'm a believer, but I wouldn't be surprised if that strap line gets him into the spotty final.

Mcilroy is a max red for me, no way can he win 2 years in a row, golfers don't do well generally, he is polarising at best and didn't win this week

I'm at a loss to explain how he is under 10

Kerr is a private school Edinburgh twunt stu, the jocks would rather vote for Bellingham than him

Kerr is private school Edinburgh stu. The jocks would sooner vote for Bellingham

Agree with lifter, and with kimble on rory.  Nobody is bothering to vote for him this year

But it all creates value elsewhere. Hammy the one that has potential to beat Belly, but the ferrari didn't look too hot yesterday. Everyone hates Russell

Well tbf, leclerc looked good and has resumed normal service of being the best ferrari driver

Belly has certain weaknesses though - plays abroad for a start, and is a bit more on the 'masculine/footy' side for the lady voters to bother with in this. Kerr far more acceptable for those ladies IMO.

Can't ever agree that a Scot won't form some kind of Jock vote support - no matter what kind he is.

..and I agree with above he hasn't actually won anything.

One's a national hero and household name and the other made 4th story on bbc sport website

If it was a true old-school SPOTY vote, where the actual nation (and males mostly) still voted, then I'd agree with some of that logic.

But IMO it will be more about a (at least partly) block Scot vote, and a lack of any real turnout from the footy fans for SPOTY by the time it happens. They don't turn up like they used to do for this kind of event. Plus it's worst time to back Belly now, he's today's buzz, but didn't actually win anything, played well is all. Playing well a criteria to win SPOTY? Not at a short price IMO.

By November I think the world record holder over a blue ribband athletic event can get it done, with the help of some Scot block voting.

Voting numbers are pathetic these days, which is why they hide them - and most footy fans, even if they like Belly now, will not be bothered to get involved in a TV woke show of voting. They will be out getting p'ssed and chanting about Reform support instead.

Add possible split footy vote - Kane and Belly...as a danger for backers?

Jul 20, 2026 -- 1:59PM, stu wrote:

Belly has certain weaknesses though - plays abroad for a start, and is a bit more on the 'masculine/footy' side for the lady voters to bother with in this. Kerr far more acceptable for those ladies IMO.Can't ever agree that a Scot won't form some kind of Jock vote support - no matter what kind he is.

"more on the 'masculine/footy side' for lady voters" - Jude is the most popular man in the world amongst the ladies right now. Some watched England games just for him

But yeah, doesn't mean they vote for him. Insanely popular though

He has a chance for sure in this, just not so sure how good that chance is, compared to a world record holder and world championship winner this year.

He just hasn't won anything, and I'm struggling to think of many that won this event that didn't win anything. Giggs would be closest example potentially, but that was an extreme outlier, not a short price selection.

He might not even get listed, as they don't have to - though I think it's likely he would get listed. The two girls from England split their vote despite winning also. If Kane is on the list (likely too) then he's dead as a selection IMO.

Kerr wins 1500m in home commonwealth games
wrapped in saltire.... Probably

1500m record is a goodun, but he must have a crack at it, and perhaps that's the key to
his chances, but still a runner on mile record and commonwealth gold.

Everyone know the games aren't on normal telly?

Audiences will be tiny

Belly in team of the tournament.  Only brit

Will be some interesting test case potentially in this vote and year - a traditional male sport and fans selection vs a Scot holding a shiny new world record in a more female friendly sport of athletics.

We had similar in Littler v Keely, and the former won it of course. But, Littler was less generally popular perhaps than Belly. On other hand, he had achieved and won more than Belly.

Some interesting tests to come in this.

*Latter won it, doh!

Keely was watched by millions in a huge event

True but she wasnay a Jock either

TBH it's more important who views the actual SPOTY show itself overall IMO.

Some back to laying going on with kerr I think.

I'm not bothering with the first half

Joshua vs fury maybe more interesting in that respect. The boxing fans will maybe think they can sneak someone over the line

Some back to laying going on with kerr I think.

Yes, TBF did a bit of that myself - only sensible to reduce risk after backing.

Where's army - will he appear this year...?

Backing finucane at 1000, when he has 1 million green he'll appear

She's on for a comeback in this at some point!

LPM 260

Is there any cycling in the commonwealth krwap?

May as well lay the 1000 if not

When are you backing bellingham stu?  Sooner you start the better

Thanks to Kerr shortening heavily enough Belly for me is: 0

Prob keep him there, he could win it, but I don't want money on it.

She's 1000 even if there is cycling there IMO

Hammy piss poor on a weekend where he could have won