Sports Personality ... Seriously?

[joggerjayne]

I missed the Sport Personality Of The Year, and I'm sure this was done to death at the time, but I heard yesterday that Lewis Hamilton won it.

Seriously?

Ahead of Lizzy Yarnold?

I was just a Stevenage boy, and my parents didn't have much money (as we are told over and over and over). So thanks for all the support, and training, and lucky I got into the Young Driver Development Programme. And now that earning £70m a year, I can make a valuable contribution to the public benefit, which will help the next generation of young sports stars.

But I'm not gonna. *** you lot. You can all *** off. I'm declaring myself no longer UK resident, so I don't have to put anything back into the system.

Not that there's anything wrong with spending a lot of time abroad, you understand.

But it's ... two fingers up at you British public ... but don't forget to vote for me.

Don't get me wrong. If he paid full UK tax, he would only be left with £40 million, and that probably doesn't buy you very much in Stevenage, but you know.

Perhaps he should've been given Overseas Sports Personality, and left the big prize for someone who lives, works, and trains in Britain, with British sports people.

Someone like Lizzy Yarnold.

Okay, rant over.

ps. As LH goes on and on and on and on about his Stevenage roots, and milks that one dry, is his ongoing connection with Stevenage ...

(a) I go back there all the time, because I'm a Stevenage boy at heart, or

(b) Thank *** I never have to go back there.

Just wondered.

Okay, rant really over, this time.

Removed a few swearyish bits :-) auntie xxx

[-Talbot-]

Good morning JJ.

[ludwig]

Yeah I know. Personally I wanted Rory McIlroy to win it but there you go.

[whiskeryron]

hi jj. with you all the way. aint it alwys like that.

[joggerjayne]

Hey, talbot.

ludwig, Rory M would've been a good winner.

WR, yep, it seems to be.

[douglas9401]

That's the game, hit the ground running. :-)

[joggerjayne]

lol x

[Sqad]

JJ...welcome home ...I missed you over Xmas (he lied)

I agree .....disgusting....Lizzy Yarnold was the obvious choice. Trouble is the British Public have never appreciated Synchronised Swimming.

Still LUV yer!

[Garador]

SPOTY, like many other programmes, has passed it's sell by date long ago, and went off my 'must watch' list many years ago.

The name of the programme is an oxymoron, as very few 'personalities' actually win the title.

[joggerjayne]

Aah, sqad, you may have a point.

Although the Winter Olympics is the biggest sporting event on the planet, and it captured the hearts and minds of the nation while it was on.

Whereas Formula 1 is watched by, thinks, thinks, nobody?

[aelmpvw]

after the last two years winners perhaps it should be renamed most unpopular sports personality of the year

[joggerjayne]

Gara, I agree that the whole concept seems to have gone stale.

[joggerjayne]

I can't remember who won last year, ael, but I thought Jessica Ennis was a dead cert in 2012 when Bradley Wiggins won it.

[factor-fiction]

It's not unusual in any vote for the most popular and least popular person/band/artist/ politician to be the same

[aelmpvw]

some scottish tennis player who won wimbledon won it last year :-)

[Cloverjo]

Andy Murray (2013 winner) gets a great reception wherever he goes in the world on the tennis circuit. I wish everyone in this country appreciated him.

[Retrochic]

sorry I can't see your point here - it was a public vote wasn't it? So more people voted for him than the other candidates. He represents the UK when he competes in formula 1 and to be honest if you had £80 million would you live in Stevenage? Also he's very ell known -who the heck is Lizzy Arnold? To be honest no one is voting for them because of their 'personalities' as few people know what they are like in real like,they are voting for people they know that are in the public eye and ambassadors for British sports. I personally think Charlotte du Jardin should have won (yes who the heck is she you ask) but certainly wouldn't get myself all worked up about it.

[joggerjayne]

f-f that does seem to be the way.

Oh, yeah yeah, Andy Murray. Thanks CJ.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

I'm sure the 'I love Lewis' club will be along shortly.

[sunny-dave]

Morning JJ

"I think Lewis has less personality than Lizzy's tea tray, but do think his F1 achievement was outstanding"

Dxx

[joggerjayne]

I sort of get that, retro. But just being born in Britain doesn't make you much of an ambassador for British sport.

I make a bigger contribution to funding British sport than Lewis Hamilton (because I pay some tax, which filters through to centrally funded grass roots sport), and Lewis Hamilton earns more than double what I earn (lol).

ps. I watched Charlotte du J at London 2012 the day GB won team Gold. I had Dressage tickets.