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[MCFC Wirral]

It’s quite popular to have more than one name amongst working class folk. On Council Estates they are known as aliases.

They call them jarg names here. Liam or Kenny etc.

I’m the son of a lorry driver and a secretary so I’m not sneering. I’d hate to have a double barrelled surname but wouldn’t insist a wife takes my name either.

 

[MadchesterCity]

It’s quite popular to have more than one name amongst working class folk. On Council Estates they are known as aliases.

An example for Vicky Jones
(Sticky) Vicky Jones

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

Fucking Rory McIlroy he doesn't even play a sport. Someone carrys his bats and tells him which bat to use. He just walks and hits a little ball about 70 times in 6 hours .......knackering ah !

indeed...if you can have a nip from a hip flask, and smoke a fag while you are participating...it's probably not a sport.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

They need to have a separate award for the lifetime achievement types.

Broad has had a glittering career and has done loads for cricket. He had a good Ashes but nothing spectacular and he was ultimately on the losing side.

We have this every year where they sentimentally wedge people who had 25-year long careers in with people who have achieved specific things this year and it just makes the whole thing contrived because different people are voting on an entirely different basis.

If you ask me, it should probably go to KJT who seems like the only genuine winner on this list.

Rory has had a good year in the PGA and a good Ryder Cup but didn’t win any of the majors. Dettori, great career but see my point above. England’s women lost the World Cup final - we seem too keen to award glorious losers when we have genuine winners to award things to. We didn’t give it Henderson when England lost the Euro final. Wheelchair tennis is admittedly something I don’t know enough about but probably doesn’t have the popularity.

Rory won loads of stuff when all the best players went to play in that new LIV thing didn’t he?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

It's a very white list.

Just sayin'

But not entirely.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Has KJT only got a double-barrelled surname because she was born out of wedlock? It can’t be class based because she’s childhood friends with Jodie Comer.

I have a double barrel name and I would consider myself raised working class (but probably more middle class lifestyle these days). In my case it’s because my wife is Portuguese and if she just took my name we thought our future kids would lose a part of their heritage.

I think a lot of the time it’s just seen as a bit more progressive to not erase references to a woman’s ancestry purely out of tradition.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

"The recipient must either be British or reside and play a significant amount of their sport in the United Kingdom"

Erling was eligible for this.

That's a weird description - every winner has been a UK national (barring maybe McGuigan - born in Ireland, I think, but I thought he boxed in a Commonwealth games for NI).

I've never known someone who was obviously foreign to be on the short list.
EDIT: Oh bugger... Dettori!

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

"The recipient must either be British or reside and play a significant amount of their sport in the United Kingdom"

Erling was eligible for this.

It’s a shocking and disgraceful omission to not include someone who set records not seen since Dixie Dean’s time when they’re as eligible as an Italian included in the list.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

That's a weird description - every winner has been a UK national (barring maybe McGuigan - born in Ireland, I think, but I thought he boxed in a Commonwealth games for NI).

I've never known someone who was obviously foreign to be on the short list.

Frankie Dettori?

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Rory won loads of stuff when all the best players went to play in that new LIV thing didn’t he?

He did win a few pots to be fair to him, but he choked his way to 2nd in a number of big tournaments. LIV golfers can still play in PGA majors but their chances of getting in are reducing all the time as they’re unable to earn the points they need to stay high enough in the rankings to get in.