British sports personality of the year

[Pothas]

Hamilton in the news more recently. Imagine that is the main reason.

 

[Uppercut]

Moves to Monaco to dodge British tactics; returns to receive taxpayer-funded award. Smooth.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Plus holding the money order in Us and Europe, plus winning the Ryder Cup, so yeah he's done okay.

****ing over Woz and saying he's Irish probably didn't help in a close-run thing though.

Remarkably not close in the end - Hamilton 209,000 vs McIlroy 130,000. F1 always seems to get very well represented in SPOTY.

 

[cpr]

What helps is Hamiltons success was in the last few weeks, and shown on the BBC, Rory's was earlier in the year and mainly on sky.

What also helps is F1 is infinitely less boring than golf - and thats me being well aware people see F1 as boring itself.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The way he binned his girlfriend probably cost him votes.

 

[andmark]

The voting has always been ridiculous though. For overseas sportsman of the year, in the 1980s no West Indian cricketers won it (that decade was as we all know a golden age for the Windies's cricket) but five tennis players won it: BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edit: just remembered that award is selected rather than voted for, but you get my point, some sports are over-represented as Neil has said above.

 

[Cabinet96]

Seems you're more likely than not to win the award if you win Wimbledon.