Well put

I’m please for Sinfield who I like.

However I’m very pleased for Murray and I don’t get the negativity at all.

Murray has already achieved all he ever set out to do, Wimbledon, Olympic gold and whatever else he’s won. He didn’t need to play Davis Cup and could easily have cried off leaving the team with no chance.

However he saw his brother and team mates and one assumes friends with possibly their only real chance of ever winning anything and he stepped in to help. In fact he did more than that, he dragged them kicking and screaming to success and they all played above themselves, whilst Murray with little to prove played IMHO some of his best Tennis ever.

If that’s not SPOTY stuff I don’t know what is. Much as I love RL until we slay the Aussie dragon we quit rightly IMHO won’t break out in to popular culture - had Kevin captained us to a WC victory over the Aussies I suspect he’s have got the extra floating votes and won - but he didn’t.

I agree Murray deserved to win it Vastman and I don't begrudge him the award. The negativity towards him is I think because of derogatory comments he made about the English some years ago. Some folk have long memories but hey perhaps he's grown up a bit since then and realises where a lot of his wealth has come from - and it's not north of the border!

Can't be too disappointed at Murray's win. A fair wedge of his vote will have been an anti (English) establishment vote from his fellow Scots. A motive not too different from many of us who voted for Sinfield, I suspect. Just unfortunate that the former also attracted the pro-establishment vote from those south of the border as well.

None the less, very pleasing to see the number of votes KS did attract. It doesn't require any class from us loiners to vote for him but it does for fans of the likes of yourselves, Cas, Wigan, Hull et al and who felt able to set rivalries aside. Hopefully for one night only though

Not a massive fan of Murray but I really do admire his achievements and he is competing and winning at the top level in one of the most physically and mentally testing of the individual sports. Also he made himself available for this year for the Davis Cup team when it would have been all too easy to concentrate on his own tournaments and forget about the GB team. Deserved the win and really pleased Kev Sinfield got second place