Even though SPOTY has gone downhill over recent years it is still nice to think that a great Sports Person wins the award - sadly this year is the year that completely demeans the whole thing.
If it was a joke before last night then it is a laughing stock of an award now.
I am sure she is a lovely person and so on but really - completely bonkers but for once I agree with Wisbech - I suspect that a lot of Women voted last night.
Broad would have got my vote - partly because he actually has a personality - the clue is in the awards name of course.
Hey ho - like a Question of Sport - I won't be watching again!

More to the point how dare BBC1 give us a line up on Christmas night consisting of Strictly Come Dancing, Mrs Brown's Boys, EastEnders and the Vicar of Dibley. Meanwhile BBC2 has an evening of Dad's Army and 50 year old Morecambe & Wise shows.
Well worth the licence fee.

I don’t know if that’s more to the point, it’s just a completely separate one.

That line up does sound s***e but I can’t remember a year when that wasn’t the case - terrestrial TV has been predominantly garbage for a long time.

Indeed but garbage we have no option but to pay for.

I'm just amazed that people on here really think the public vote counts. As soon as that list was compiled, by the bbc, it was a nailed on certainty the bird would win it. Public vote my ar$e.

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I don't give a flying doodah about women's football. I never watch it, or even read about it.

I get irritated when Sky refers to the women teams of Spurs and Arsenal playing each other as a "big London derby". It's not, it's just a game between two women's football teams, and no amount of bigging up would turn it into a "big London derby".