Sports Personality contenders announced : Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:26 pm  

mark cavendish
darren clarke
alastair cooke
luke donald
mo farah
dai greene
amir khan
rory mclroy
andy muuray
andrew strauss

only 1 winner for me, cavendish. bit disappointed to see 3 golfers and 2 cricketers in there when they could have included someone like the triathlete brownlee. still at least theres no footballers in the list. sam tomkins picked up a few nominations from the individual newspapers and mags that come up with the final list. you can see who voted for who on the beeb website

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:47 am  

Darren Clarke for me - think the whole of Golf cheered when he won the Open.

Andy Murray being nominated again is for me a travesty. He will never win SPOTY until at least he wins a Grand Slam, and even then his negative style and brat-like behaviour divides Britain so much he still might lose.

I'd like Farah to win for sheer effort and determination to improve but can't see it.

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:07 am  

England RU to win team of the year??

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:45 am  

Voted for by "A range of sports experts from newspapers and magazines across the UK", including Nuts and Zoo!!! Really!?

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:11 am  

Tony Stark wrote:

Voted for by "A range of sports experts from newspapers and magazines across the UK", including Nuts and Zoo!!! Really!?

It's the Manchester Evening News list which to me makes a mockery of the process.

James Anderson
Dimitar Berbatov
Darren Clarke
Glen Chapple
Rory McIlroy
Keri-Anne Payne
Paul Scholes
Andrew Strauss
Yaya Toure
Patrick Vieira

Berbatov and Vieira - Seriously?

Agree with Kerri-Anne Payne though - IMO our best Sportsperson at the moment. Dominating her sport.

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:14 am  

Our heroic cricketing team are shockingly under-represented, half of the people on that list don't even compete in "sports".

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:23 am  

Cavendish for me.

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:55 am  

Darren Clarke - Won the Open. Great story but......only one winner for me.....

Mark Cavendish - Won the Road Cycling World Championships (only 2nd ever Brit to do this), Won the Green jersey at the worlds largest annual sporting event - the Tour de France (winning six stages along the way).

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:11 am  

cavendish all the way for me too. established himself as the worlds best known cyclist.

second and third between dai green and mo farah

team of the year will be england cricket.

coach Brian Mcdermott. (seriously)

Re: Sports Personality contenders announced : Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:46 am  

Asim wrote:

Our heroic cricketing team are shockingly under-represented, half of the people on that list don't even compete in "sports".

Cooke would probably have won it if the Ashes series hadnt mainly been held in 2011. Just too long ago.