The Helen Rowlinson award had me in bits, Alan Hansen struggled to hold it together.
Anne Williams was one amazing woman. The way she challenged the highest authority to get the truth and get the papers released and get the inquest's original verdict quashed was nothing short of amazing.
The hatred Andy Murray gets from some quarters cracks me up.
Firstly, I very much doubt that a multi-millionaire sportsman who achieves more in a day than most of his critics would in their miserable lives gives a toss about whether or not people like him or what they are saying about him on the Internet.
Secondly, I watched an interview with Murray recently where he discussed his public persona, and he basically said that he doesn't 'play the media game' and leads a normal life off-court, he doesn't go to night-clubs, showbiz parties and the like.
In the same interview he talked about the effect of being so closely involved in the Dunblane tragedy, anyone with an ounce of compassion could forgive the bloke anything when you realize what he has lived through.
The voting has shades of the Eurovision Song Contest: all the Welsh voting for 1/2a sixpence and the Irish for McCoy. Murray was a shoo in, and obviously, not just the Scots voted for him. As said above, Farrar missing out is ridiculous. Still 'the public gets what the public wants' .. who sang that ??
As said above, Farrar missing out is ridiculous. Still 'the public gets what the public wants' .. who sang that ??
Athletics is a minority sport.
according the BBC this week (I have no idea where they get their figures from) Athletics has more active participants than does football, so does cycling.
I fail to see the relevance of this award anymore. It's just a massive hype up for the BBC. Phone voting and a list of candidates invalidates it in my opinion.
I fail to see the relevance of this award anymore. It's just a massive hype up for the BBC.
Yep totally agree.
It used to be held in the BBC studios with an audience of a couple of hundred, had been like that for years. In fact it started out being called `Sports Review Of The Year'....then 5-6 years ago the BBC decided to spend a shed load of licence fee payers money on creating their very own `Oscars' of sport. They now hire 10k seated arenas, fill the place with `celebrities' on freebies and have turned the whole thing `show biz' whilst claiming to be acting on behalf of the British public. It's a load of bollox imo.
All this of course to cover up the fact that they've lost out on so many big sport TV contracts in recent years.
It's always been free - any BBC show is free to go and see. More of the general public get to go now there are more seats. The BBC gets funded according to viewing figures, more people watch a glitzy ceremony than a low key one. Why do you think they have "lost out" on big sports contracts? Because they have not bothered, or because people who will knock them whatever they try to do, will moan about them spending X million to secure the rights to football/rugby/tiddlywinks which only Y number of people are interested in? They can't win either way with some people. By the way I preferred it the way it was before too, but I am old and you have to move with the times.
Afraid it wasn't free, Algarve - £25 to £60 a ticket...
I enjoy it to watch, though - shame when they don't manage to interview all the contenders eg Justin Rose. It's a better event now than when they used to do various "comedy" sketches. Murray a very worthy winner.
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Pleased Murray got it and AP McCoy too but Halfpenny, great season and Lions tour that he undoubtedly had, was a bit lucky in my opinion.
I speak as a rugby fan and former player.
Froch's eyes seemed a bit lively !
Firstly, I very much doubt that a multi-millionaire sportsman who achieves more in a day than most of his critics would in their miserable lives gives a toss about whether or not people like him or what they are saying about him on the Internet.
Secondly, I watched an interview with Murray recently where he discussed his public persona, and he basically said that he doesn't 'play the media game' and leads a normal life off-court, he doesn't go to night-clubs, showbiz parties and the like.
In the same interview he talked about the effect of being so closely involved in the Dunblane tragedy, anyone with an ounce of compassion could forgive the bloke anything when you realize what he has lived through.
And yet people still have a go at the bloke because he made a joke about the England football team?
Grow up and get a life.
As said above, Farrar missing out is ridiculous. Still 'the public gets what the public wants' .. who sang that ??
Bradley WigginsPaul Wellar.according the BBC this week (I have no idea where they get their figures from) Athletics has more active participants than does football, so does cycling.
Ian Bell came 10th in the voting apparently...
It used to be held in the BBC studios with an audience of a couple of hundred, had been like that for years. In fact it started out being called `Sports Review Of The Year'....then 5-6 years ago the BBC decided to spend a shed load of licence fee payers money on creating their very own `Oscars' of sport. They now hire 10k seated arenas, fill the place with `celebrities' on freebies and have turned the whole thing `show biz' whilst claiming to be acting on behalf of the British public. It's a load of bollox imo.
All this of course to cover up the fact that they've lost out on so many big sport TV contracts in recent years.
I enjoy it to watch, though - shame when they don't manage to interview all the contenders eg Justin Rose. It's a better event now than when they used to do various "comedy" sketches. Murray a very worthy winner.