Sports Personality of the Year

That's an interesting point which prompted me to employ Google to discover this:- "....with a panel of over 30 leading sport experts representing a broad body of sports editors from acknowledged UK-based publications selecting the nominees based on a far-reaching criteria...."

So, "experts" are selecting the options for the masses to vote for. The first bit sounds fair enough.......

I see now that the word 'Television' has been dropped from the title (don't know when that happened) - but it always provided the clue as to why participants in 'minority' sports, perhaps too difficult/expensive to televise, hadn't got a hope.

Quite! It will never warrant the insane level of importance the BBC try to give it while the result is determined by the masses. The problem is in the title - BBC Television Sports Personality of the Year. As that, it will always be another Strictly-Come-X-Factor. There are far more credible awards given by sports writers.

His England comment was a joke. 

Its odd really.  Footballers don't win that often, and when they do its often World Cup years.  Giggs is a very good player, but I don't think last year was any better for him than many others.  Just goes to show how weak the field was this year, I suppose. 

And hardly anyone watched.  Maybe the theme tune should have been RATM.

yes the public voting is ridiculous - how can it hope to balance football and cycling?  also look at the Strictly result this weekend!