[Archived] Bbc Sports Personality Of The Year Award

[Timmy]

Any ideas who should win this year?

it's a very open year with no outstanding candidate

it be intreasting to see if Monty Panaser will garner more votes by default based his non appearance in the Ashes to date.

[AlanK]

Darren Clarke, nuff said. Game over.

[modes98]

I'm going to this, i think it'll be a very long evening!

[Bing]

I voted Panesar a few weeks back. Two good test matches might have seen him get it but not a chance now - Darren Clarke's a shoe-in.

[colin]

  AlanK said:

Darren Clarke, nuff said. Game over.

Now without seeming to be a completely insensitive person I had no idea who Darren Clarke is. So I had a look at wikipedia

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In 2005 and 2006 he missed several tournaments to care for his wife, who was diagnosed with both primary and, later, secondary breast cancer.

Then I read

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Clarke is a keen cigar smoker, on and off the golf course, and has been reported to spend an estimated £25,000 per year on cigars.

That word "reported" is a big one.

[Billy Castell]

If you want to vote for Darren Clarke, you might as well consider that Jane Tomlinson, who has done some pretty impressive things in her life. Darren himself has said he doesn't want a sympathy vote.

[RevidgeBlue]

  colin said:

Now without seeming to be a completely insensitive person I had no idea who Darren Clarke is. So I had a look at wikipedia

Then I read

That word "reported" is a big one.

And your point is?

[Presty On Tour]

Joe Calzaghe won the welsh version and i think he has been nominated in the top 10 short list for this award?

cant see anyone winning apart from darren clarke though.

[Rovermatt]

Clarke's a pretty big deal over and I don't see many people from NI voting for anyone except him. Personally I would go for Calzaghe.

[pleasure]

  Rovermatt said:

Clarke's a pretty big deal over and I don't see many people from NI voting for anyone except him. Personally I would go for Calzaghe.

me too. Calzaghe never gets the recognition he deserves. his record is sensational. 42 fights, 42 wins, 31 KO's.

[cletus]

Christiano Ronaldo anyone?

[Billy Castell]

Since Calzaghe is the only winner in Britain, I'd go for him. Or Phil Taylor!

Edited December 7, 2006 by Billy Castell

[gazsimm]

Darren Clarke for me he deserves it as well unlike some winners in the past

[Ste B]

  Billy Castell said:

Since Calzaghe is the only winner in Britain, I'd go for him. Or Phil Taylor!

Neither have a chance given that its going to a telephone vote, so it will be the kids, housewives and halfwits choice. Expect Andy Murray to do well, despite not actually having a personality. Panesar might do well as a kind of protest vote against his omission from the team.

The young personality award will be a typically policically correct award to the blind athlete.

[gazsimm]

best team i would choose would be England football team only joking, no i think the European Ryder Cup team will get it

[Paul]

  Billy Castell said:

Since Calzaghe is the only winner in Britain, I'd go for him. Or Phil Taylor!

Sorry not true, presuming you mean he's the only one who has won something.

Nicole Cooke is the first British cyclist, male or female, to be world ranked No.1 ~ in fact she is the only British cyclist ever to make the world top 20. In 2006 she won the Women's World Cup ( a year long event similar to Formula 1), the women's Tour de France which included a win on Mount Ventoux (even Armstrong didn't achieve that), and a bronze medal at the World Championships.

I was privileged to stand next to her father as she won the women's CWG road race in Manchester. This young woman is the most fantastic athlete, a modest person and basically doing it all with little or no funding. If you want to vote for a real athlete, vote for Nicole.

[Grabbi Graeme]

I hope Phil Taylor is reconised for his contribution to darts, he has won everything in the game and his dedication is second to none.

[Ste B]

  Paul said:

If you want to vote for a real athlete, vote for.

Phil Taylor ... I was so tempted to edit your post there Paul

I bet that Calzaghe can ride a bike, but I dare say Cooke can't box. Like Beth Tweddle, Cooke has no chance of winning, as nobody really gives a toss about their sports. Same would normally go for the Horse woman, but she's a bit more high profile being in the Royal Family and all that.

[pleasure]

  gazsimm said:

best team i would choose would be England football team only joking, no i think the European Ryder Cup team will get it

unbelievably, the BBC are deciding the 'team of the year' by having a text vote. purely a money making exercise, as we all know who'll win it.

it's between RC team, St. Helens and Sussex.

[Eddie]

Can we just not bother having one this year?

[Ste B]

  Eddie said:

Can we just not bother having one this year?

I didnt think the french had any personality anyway.

[Paul]

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QUOTE(Ste B @ Dec 7 2006, 13:34 ) 465871[/snapback]

Like Beth Tweddle, Cooke has no chance of winning, as nobody really gives a toss about their sports.

I know, which is why I shall be voting for the first time and I'd urge everyone to have a look at Cooke, she's fantastic.

[Eddie]

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QUOTE(Ste B @ Dec 7 2006, 14:39 ) 465874[/snapback]

I didnt think the french had any personality anyway.

Very funny.

[broadsword]

They've got a darts player in there! Bl00dy hell, things have got bad.

It's normally pretty boring anyways, but this year it will be as dull as ditch water. Who half those people are I don't know.

Typical Christmas fare, a real yawnathon.

[gazsimm]

  pleasure said:

unbelievably, the BBC are deciding the 'team of the year' by having a text vote. purely a money making exercise, as we all know who'll win it.

it's between RC team, St. Helens and Sussex.

what about Chelsea