Probably tennis fans, in recognition that he spearheaded a Davis Cup win for G.B. the first time for nigh on eighty years.

Great effort from R.L fans though, surprisingly putting aside parochial alliances for once & with Lizzy Jones pulling off an incredible performance it’s certainly done the profile of the game no harm.

The Scottish.

FFS, put your tinfoil hat and pitchfork away for 1 night, enjoy the moment with Kev and Lizzie.

Build on tonight stop finding chips and conspiracies!

Switched over to the red button channel afterwards which was backstage at the event. Steve Bunce made a great comment, he mentioned that over the last several years of this event that when someone is nominated from a smaller sport in terms of profile compared to some of the others that they always say that they're going to vote heavily to get their person into the top 3 but come the event they never do. Rugby League said the same this time but actually backed it up and praised the sport for doing so. Also interviewed Lizzie Jones who came across really well and they were full of admiration for her bottle to sing that particular song.

72,330 villages decided to give their idiot access to a phone tonight

BBC were having fun weren't they cutting to Greg Rutherford a couple of times when Fury was interviewed and then cutting to Fury when Ennis Hill was collecting her award.

Can you imagine if he'd have been in the top 3 instead of Sinfield, when it came time to shake the hands of the guys and kiss the cheek of the women on stage it would've been an awkward spot when he came to Ennis-Hill and Clare Balding.

Yep. It just depresses me slightly that there are such pillocks willing to support someone with such ridiculous and horrible views. You sort of think these kind of views have been slowly eradicated over the last few decades, but then a Tyson Fury or a Nigel Farage or a Nick Griffin pops up every now and again and bring the ted out of the woodwork.

Voted a couple of times online, actually thought he'd get more votes tbh.
Decent result for RL but Murray no.1, pah.

Actually, I consider Samuel Burgess of Dewsbury should have been the rightful SPOTY winner.

Fair result for me, Murray different persona when he plays for Great Britain, brilliant for Sinfield to get so many votes, thought Mo would have been in the top 3. Lizzy put the icing on the cake for the RL exposure.

The guy is the world heavyweight boxing champion. Its a sport person of the year award. Only modern sensitivities (and views like yours) could prevent a worthy contender like Fury from being nominated. If it is truly a sport personality award then Jesus we have given it to Murray who by his own words is a dull as a weekend in Worthing.

Murray is world no 2 unlike Fury, Hamilton, Mo, JIH, etc etc

I hope you enjoyed your sports equivalent of Question Time.


Ps did you not hear Fury apologise??

A national sport played by lots and watched by lots of women. Murray is good player by British standards as has been Kev. Kev spent 18 years getting battered though and coming through. From a pure sports perspective Kev by a mile.