sports personality of the year on BBC

[Dancey]

This is a lil off topic,

 

but, Johnny Wilkinson will get it.

 

After his world cup performance and his young female fan base he is bound to.

 

Although i shall be voting for Alan.

[Dick Dastardly]

All of the comments about angling not being regarded as a sport in the same sense as rugby etc are correct.No no one expects an angler to win no matter how sucsessfull at world class they have been.But surely the point is to raise the non angling public (and I suppose a lot of anglers)awareness of our sport and how sucsessfull some of the participants have been?

Despite not winning any thing didnt Bob Nudd get a mention on the televised presentation one year?

[Del_R]

Aside from the folks already mentioned, Neil Hodgson is World Superbike Champion. Then there's Doug Lampkin, the trials rider, who's won the world championship for about the past ten years (he's so good I'm simply assuming he's won it/going to win it again this year). Then we have Nicola Cooke who's the female World Cycling Champion and I'm pretty sure we have a couple of other world cycling champions (Bradley Wiggins and David Miller spring to mind - but I wouldn't bet on it). And these are just the sports I'm familiar with. Of course, Jonny's going to win it, though I think Big Martin Johnson deserves it more. The overseas award should go to Tyler Hamilton who rode that amazing Tour De France with a broken collarbone.

 

Two Wheeled Derek

[Dancey]

whatnobivvy-

i hope you dont mind but i am going to post you post on maggotdrowners so alan can gain even more votes.

 

Thanx

 

Tom.

[lee wood]

Didnt Bob Nudd win it a few years ago?

[Guest sslatter]

chesters1 gets my vote..

[Peter M]

Fred Guttfield:

Peter,

 

............Come on guys get on the site and give Al your vote.

Point taken, voted for Alan.

[peter morton]

The voting is for the BBC TV sports personality of the year,and even if every angler voted for Alan he wouldn't win.

 

A few years back (1994 i think,when Bob won his 3rd title at Holme Pierpoint) a concerted effort saw Bob Nudd record most votes,these were then banned as the BBC said it wasn't a true representation,and that the award was for a sportsman/woman who's sport was represented on BBC TV.

 

It's a forgone conclusion this year........

 

Personality of the Year.....Jonny Wilkinson

Team of the Year............England Rugby Union