BBC Sports Personality 2019

[stavros]

It's on tomorrow night, with the winner announced after the public vote on the nominees at the end.

Ben Stokes is odds-on to win, but whilst I don't follow cricket I'm a bit sceptical of a team sport player winning. The same logic applies to Alun Wun Jones and Raheem Sterling.

I'd vote for Dina Asher-Smith.

Lewis Hamilton should only be in contention for Overseas SPOTY.

 

[butchersapron]

It's on tomorrow night, with the winner announced after the public vote on the nominees at the end.

Ben Stokes is odds-on to win, but whilst I don't follow cricket I'm a bit sceptical of a team sport player winning. The same logic applies to Alun Wun Jones and Raheem Sterling.

I'd vote for Dina Asher-Smith.

Lewis Hamilton should only be in contention for Overseas SPOTY.

Stokes is going to win absolutely no doubt about it. Dina will at a later date.

 

[colacubes]

All about Dina for me.

 

[souljacker]

Stokes. It can only be Stokes.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Stokes will win. Asher-Smith would win many years, but not this, I don't think. Hopefully she will win it for her future exploits. I would expect those two to be 1 and 2 by some distance.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Didn't know people from Monaco were eligible for this award

 

[weltweit]

Hamilton can only be in because of winning the world championship - but honestly a good / great driver in what was the best car .. I can't see him winning it.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

And... he's a driver.

Proper sport will win this year.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I'd Dina to win and she would deserve it, but Stokes did virtually impossible stuff twice this year.

 

[magneze]

Jürgen Klopp

 

[Hollis]

I'd like to see Katarina Johnson-Thompson due to the back-story. She clearly won't win it, and Ben Stokes will.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I reckon Ben Stokes will win, and I can understand why, but I I'd rather it was Dina Asher Smith or KJT.

 

[SpookyFrank]

England's cricketers are team of the year.

 

[hammerntongues]

KJT please

 

[Spymaster]

It was always going to be Stokes and Hamilton at 1 and 2. Just wasn't sure in what order.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It was always going to be Stokes and Hamilton at 1 and 2. Just wasn't sure in what order.

I am genuinely surprised asher-smirh didn't get second.

More vroom vromm fans than I supposed

 

[Steel Icarus]

I really don't like Hamilton.

 

[Spymaster]

I really don't like Hamilton.

He's a bit of a cock but it's difficult to argue that he's not one of the finest F1 drivers ever.

 

[Steel Icarus]

He's a bit of a cock but it's difficult to argue that he's not one of the finest F1 drivers ever.

I don't know enough about it. Isn't it largely down to the car?

 

[Spymaster]

I don't know enough about it. Isn't it largely down to the car?

Only insofar as some cars aren't advanced enough to be competitive regardless of who drives them and reliability can be a major factor. Most of the top team's cars are much of a muchness though (give or take) so tactics and driver ability are critical.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Anyhoo, I'm glad Stokes won. Team sports players are at an inherent disadvantage in this award, and I think he deserved it. As Vic Marks said , it he hadn't won, that would have said something really bad about the state of cricket in this country. It desperately needs to be back on free to air (asher-smith and KJT would have been nowhere without the BBC coverage), but vroom vroom isn't free to air either, and neither (disgracefully) is most football.

Maybe it would have been a good thing if Stokes hadn't won. Maybe that would have shown the importance of free to air? But probably not. The wankers who decide such things are very thick-skinned.

 

[GarveyLives]

"The modesty of the nominees stood in stood in contrast to an occasion that as ever tended towards the bloated, buffed and boastful. Some presenters seemed convinced that this is, in fact, the most important occasion in sport.

Ben Stokes’ modesty stands in sharp contrast to bloated show

Ben Stokes, who was introduced to the audience by presenter Gary Lineker as “main award winner Ben Stokes" over an hour before the lines opened for voting!​

 

[Casual Observer]

Only saw the last 10 minutes. During that time Lineker gave an endorsement of the 100 and then took the piss out of the Lawman.

Any know who won Heat Magazine's 2019 Sports Personality Of The Year?

 

[stavros]

A shocking lack of snooker in the two hours, I thought, but then I say that every year.

Was that skateboarder from the UK? Her accent sounded North American in some way, from what I could tell. Still, I'm glad skateboarding's made it into the Olympics, albeit some time after snowboarding and BMX.