BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2009

[TheFaQQer]

Don't disagree with what you've said. F1 drivers are super-fit. However, success is largely down to the speed, reliability and technical improvements made on a team's car which is ultimately acheived through money. Obviously, no point sticking Beth Tweddle in a Ferrari and no point trying to get Button to perform a floor exrercise.

I just like last year's Daily Mash headline "HAMILTON WINS WORLD CAR POINTING CHAMPIONSHIP"

Roy Hobbs, who gets paid to talk about car pointing, said: "Hamilton has been destined for this moment ever since he learned which button made it go and which button made it stop.

[DS23]

I think Strauss should win. How they won the Ashes with all that saffa rabble in the team I'll never know.

ah me it was a glorious thing.

[Doggy Styles]

I'm not really bothered who wins.

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I'll still watch though, just to see what Ennis looks like in a dress
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Nothing pervy about that, MM.

[DodgyAgent]

Murray should win. he is the highest achieving British sportsman in the context of the competitive environment in which he plays. He plays a sport that is played and watched by huge numbers of people, and he is competing with a generation of tennis players who are arguably , collectively the best that there has ever been.

In motor racing only 20% of the contribution comes from the driver, so not Jensen Button (team award only).

Ryan Giggs is not even Manchester United's best player of the year let alone a contender for top sportsman. He should win a long term award.

Finally the word is "personality" not "interesting personality". So everyone qualifies under this title. No one is defining what that personality should actually be.

As for the rest

[Moscow Mule]

I'll still watch though, just to see what Ennis looks like in a dress

Nothing pervy about that, MM.

And the answer is - H-O-T

[centurian]

Why should Button win, Lewis didnt win it last year.

The competition was a lot stiffer was last year... in Olympic's years the award generally tends to go to a gold medalist - although Mansell & Hill won it in 92 & 96 respectively.

[centurian]

Murray should win. he is the highest achieving British sportsman in the context of the competitive environment in which he plays.

But he hasn't yet won any of the 4 majors. When he does, he will probably get it - and deservedly so

Finally the word is "personality" not "interesting personality". So everyone qualifies under this title. No one is defining what that personality should actually be.

But it's a public vote, so the definition is whatever the public decide it is - and I bet that most people do vote according to a definition of "interesting personality".

[Board Game Geek]

Since when did the ability to punt round a football, when you've got no O-Levels, amount to having a "Personality" ?

[oracleslave]

Since when did the ability to punt round a football, when you've got no O-Levels, amount to having a "Personality" ?

Don't normally side with you on sports related issues BGG but in this case

^^^ WHS!

[Alf W]

Giggs - shoe in. The BBC have been setting him up all year for it.

Strauss will be part of the 'Team of the Year' for the Ashes.

Button will be second. Murray third.

The rest are likely to suffer from the "Who?" factor.

Nearly! Should have guessed some token eye-candy for third spot.