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Its been four years since Tony McCoy overwhelmingly won the title but I wonder how little coverage our sport will receive tonight if any at all. I know the BBC have washed their hands of horse racing but should we be disappointed if it fails to get a mention tonight?
We can get an equestrian winner though in Charlotte Dujardin our dressage champion. She made history by winning two gold medals at the World Equestrian Games – the first British equestrian rider to be Olympic, world and European champion at the same time.
I gave up watching it years ago…..I don’t even know what kind of show it has become now
To be fair I don’t watch any of the other awards shows either
I always watch it because I love all sport and it’s nice to relive some of the more important and emotional events again, but I can’t stand all the interviews, and all the gimmicky games and stunts they tend to shoehorn in these days.
I always watch it because I love all sport and it’s nice to relive some of the more important and emotional events again, but I can’t stand all the interviews, and all the gimmicky games and stunts they tend to shoehorn in these days.
I think that’s when I stopped watching……when it ceased to be a run through of each sport in turn with highlights of the year and some bugger in the audience standing up to take applause, then move on to next sport
Is it just simply the fact that the BBC has so little sport now that they can’t put a highlights package together for most sports ?
Do they show Sky Sports packages ?
It seems that as the amount of sport they cover has decreased the hype surrounding SPOTY has increased in inverse proportion……..they now have BBC News doing a pre-show red carpet show and BBC Radio doing an all night ‘live behind the scenes at SPOTY’
It’s almost as though they don’t think of SPOTY not as a review of sport but as a replacement for it
I stopped watching this in 1985 after some old fart came on and pronounced that Barry McCochrane had won. He obviously knew little about the man or would have known McGuigan was pronounced nothing like his feeble effort.
Certain sports always dominated over others and when they let Joe Public vote for the winner it made matters more like the X-Factor.
A load of old welly for me I’m afraid.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
It’s a dreadful programme and should be called "Sports PERSON of the year". Someone can have a great personality yet acheive nothing at sport.
The biggest fact this luvvie jolly-up had gone downhill so much is the fact the beeb have lost the coverage to so many things .
The biggest fact this luvvie jolly-up had gone downhill so much is the fact the beeb have lost the coverage to so many things .
Agreed. Tonight’s show looks a shameless celebration of the Commonwealth Games as that is one of the few sporting events the BBC still does apart from women’s rugby or something
As for Lewis Hamilton was there ever a man with no personality
Couldn’t agree more. Switched over after the Pompeii documentary finished and was lulled into a false sense of security by Sir Chris Hoy’s speech in acceptance of his (thoroughly deserved) lifetime achievement award. Then switched off after the "Sports" personality winner and runner up prizes were awarded to people who indulge in retirement pastimes and sit on their arses in cars (charming fellows though I’m sure they are…)
Turned the TV on possibly halfway through the Racing Section as I saw about 15 seconds of this. Someone had started a thread regarding Ryan Moore’s chances of becoming SPOTY. Did he even get a mention?
Did Hughes and Hannon win team of the year?
No O’Meara and Tudhope pipped them at the post
Shocking programme, made for rich sports people.
Lewis Hamilton, multi millionaire wins it having all the best cars and mechanics and the best people behind him. WowWho should have won is the para olympian,the blind girl who skis.
Skiing is hard as it is and to have the utmost trust in another human to guide travelling at speed down a steep hill is miraculous.
She was the moral winner for me but that would not have been good for the Beeb.Lewis Hamilton, multi millionaire wins it having all the best cars and mechanics and the best people behind him. Wow
A Jockey, multi millionaire wins it having all the best horses and trainers and the best owners behind him. Wow
Tad unfair on AP McCoy admittedly as, to the best of my knowledge L Hamilton doesn’t spend his weekdays banger racing; but it is daft that a mere driver, be that of a car or horse is regarded as the equal of or superior to the athletically gifted
It doesn’t matter though as the prog is certainly a load of bollox, and always has been
There has been an utterly childish debate in various places online about this, which generally accuses the sublimely skilled pair of McIlroy and Hamilton as "just hitting a little ball with sticks" or "just driving around in a car".
It begs the question why these sharp-as-a-tack critics don’t just do it better themselves and enjoy the apparently easily achievable benefits of considerable wealth and global fame.
Mike
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