Beckham won it in 2001 for much less. There have also been far too many cycling winners when it can’t even be popular enough to be on a subscription based tv service.Genuine question, what's Earps won it for? What are her achievements this year to warrant the win? Is it purely getting to the women's world cup final? I'm not having thats the best sporting achievement this year.
How come it was on a midweek night this year? I never remember it being on anything else but a sunday night. Didn't even bother watching it, I watched the latest episode of Kieran Trippier's implosion.
Wyatt Earp is probably more recognisable than this ragette.
No one non-British has ever won the SPOTY award.
The only two non-Brits to finish in the top 3 are Barry Briggs and Dettori himself.
I think you’re reaching a bit there.
Greg Rusedski won it. He was only British for two years and won it despite his most prominent success' being achieved abroadWith respect, and I’m not particularly arsed about it as I’m off to bed in a minute, but the rules - even with the new amendment which I’ll admit I wasn’t aware of - don’t appear to say anything about the majority of a career.
It’s just where they play now and whether the majority of achievements during the year in question occurred in the UK or not. The 10-year residence issue is new for this year and to me it’s contrived, particularly given that a sport person’s career often doesn’t last ten years, and the fact that it doesn’t take ten years to secure UK citizenship.
Because even the BBC have realised it's a dinosaur and utterly irrelevant.How come it was on a midweek night this year? I never remember it being on anything else but a sunday night. Didn't even bother watching it, I watched the latest episode of Kieran Trippier's implosion.