Sports Personality Of The Year

[mickey1975]

What happened? Camp Eddie has assured us all year Anthony Joshua is the number one sports star in Great Britain (sometimes the world, depending what mood he's in), yet he couldn't finish top three?
Fury managed it whilst a petition to get him banned was running simultaneously! Calzaghe won whilst boxing on Setanta!
Cooper, twice, McGuigan, Lennox all won and they even invented The Lifetime Achievement Award for Frank Bruno! Kevin Sinfield came second two years ago whilst getting votes only from people within the M62!

[Counter-puncher]

[mickey1975]

Non Olympic or major football championships year, too. Easy year to win.

[Andrew]

Fury did not get top 3

[mickey1975]

Fury did not get top 3

I thought he came third?

[mickey1975]

Just looked, 4th, sorry!

[banjo]

Mo Farah is massively popular though, Rea I imagine got a huge amount of the vote from Ulster and Peacock would have got a load of Strictly viewers voting for him.

I can't believe some people are moaning about the result, I'm glad it's not the usual faces and it's good to see motorcycling get some recognition "I've never heard of that Rea bloke" I've seen people say, pull yer head out of your arse he's a triple world champion in probably the most dangerous sport there is.

I was expecting Hamilton to win it to be honest given that he's recently become Britains most successful F1 driver ever but he didn't get close.

[Oiky]

Prople starting to see through AJ now though I think

The casuals have realised he's not some big killing machine , and the rest are realising this his humble act is all bullshine

Good luck to him though

[mickey1975]

I reckon all the casuals were scared off by the voting line charges, it's going to be a tough xmas for them as it is after StubHub and Sky PPV have had their wages all year.

[mickey1975]

Fury did not get top 3

I want Tyson to knock AJ out in 2019 and go on to thank UKAD at that years SPOTY awards, which he wins, then slap Greg Rutherford whilst off his nut at the after party.

[Andrew]

Alberto Salazar is still under a huge FBi investigation........

[BitPlayer]

How can he win it? He doesn't have a personality.

[mickey1975]

How can he win it? He doesn't have a personality.

He does, it's just hidden behind the one Camp Eddie bought him.

[banjo]

How can he win it? He doesn't have a personality.

He does, it's just hidden behind the one Camp Eddie bought him.

True but then Fury has a bigoted hateful personality and that didn't get him anywhere either.

[horndawg80]

Joshua lost because of his racist comments!

[Ruthless-RKO]

He lost by 18 votes.

BBC Sports Personality of the Year full results breakdown:

1) Sir Mo Farah 83,524

2) Jonathan Rea 80,567

3) Jonnie Peacock 73,429

4) Anthony Joshua 73,411

5) Adam Peaty 63,739

6) Lewis Hamilton 60,627

7) Chris Froome 47,683

8) Harry Kane 18,759

9) Anya Shrubsole 15,237

10) Bianca Walkden 13,962

11) Johanna Konta 7,591

12) Elise Christie 6,504

[Matt W]

Prople starting to see through AJ now though I think

The casuals have realised he's not some big killing machine , and the rest are realising this his humble act is all bullshine

Good luck to him though

I've been fortunate to be around him a bit ever since he started on the GB programme and as far as what I've seen personally there is no act at all. He's always been very friendly, no huge ego about him, really nice guy who always has time for you.

[Mimmy]

He lost by 18 votes.

BBC Sports Personality of the Year full results breakdown:

1) Sir Mo Farah 83,524

2) Jonathan Rea 80,567

3) Jonnie Peacock 73,429

4) Anthony Joshua 73,411

5) Adam Peaty 63,739

6) Lewis Hamilton 60,627

7) Chris Froome 47,683

8) Harry Kane 18,759

9) Anya Shrubsole 15,237

10) Bianca Walkden 13,962

11) Johanna Konta 7,591

12) Elise Christie 6,504

I never thought AJ would win it this year. As a sportsman hes not done enough yet to win the British hearts. I think it was dabs on that Mo was going to win, or at least if not Lewis Hamilton.

AJ has a fair way to go to get that accolade yet, he aint no Frank Bruno yet, You know what I mean Arry!

[banjo]

Bruno never won the award either did he? He won an award like Lifetime Achievement or something but not the main award.

[BitPlayer]

How can he win it? He doesn't have a personality.

He does, it's just hidden behind the one Camp Eddie bought him.

True but then Fury has a bigoted hateful personality and that didn't get him anywhere either.

They both finished 4th, and Fury was up against stiffer competition.

Fury has a lot more too him than those dumb comments, it's a shame that's what a lot of people just know him as, but I guess that's life.

If Fury hadn't said the stupid bigoted shit, and had half the media backing of Joshua, he would have had a serious shot.

[dalcumly]

The BBC Spoty has become an irrelevance. They don't cover horse racing, boxing, and have been reduced to 2 days of the Open. The football coverage is MOTD and FA cup ties. I honestly have never heard of the two who finished second and third.
Given the way the BBC are going I'm actually stunned that they didn't insist on a female winner this year just to demonstrate there's no discrimination!,

[banjo]

The BBC Spoty has become an irrelevance. They don't cover horse racing, boxing, and have been reduced to 2 days of the Open. The football coverage is MOTD and FA cup ties. I honestly have never heard of the two who finished second and third.
Given the way the BBC are going I'm actually stunned that they didn't insist on a female winner this year just to demonstrate there's no discrimination!,

Quite a lot of people have though, like I said Rea would have been helped by being an Ulsterman, motorbike racing is fornicating massive over there, they hold the North West 200 race meeting which atrracts 100,000 people every year and a few years back 5 time world champion Joey Dunlop was voted Northern Irelands greatest ever sportsman. Strictly Come Dancing probably helped Peacock.

[littlepug]

Anyone else notice Joshua telling Lineker that he "held 3 of the 5 world titles", well done lad saying something misleading on a show like that, whoever heard that will have taken it as gospel, fecking pleb !

[tobyh5]

Anyone else notice Joshua telling Lineker that he "held 3 of the 5 world titles", well done lad saying something misleading on a show like that, whoever heard that will have taken it as gospel, fecking pleb !

Lot of very good fighters have held the IBO belt. Just saying

[mickey1975]

AJ did well because of his fights being on Sky Sports Box Office for a RIP off amount of money-many people outside of boxing would not know who he is, if his fights were shown ona free to air channel even on delay he MAY have done even better

It never stopped Ricky Hatton being a household name and getting a top three position. Josh was gifted his gold on the Beeb, too.