watched about 30 mins of this smarmy event..heard ryan giggs won it fair enough,he`s a decent lad,but some of it was cringe worthy....talk about licking

Not just me then...it really was a poorly presented programme. Seriously, some of the sports mentioned were so minority it is a joke, but i guess the Beeb pay for/show them, so it makes sense, right?

At least we got a mention

Load of crock!

Rugby league got 30 secs only scanned through it on iplayer so correct me if I'm wrong!

I would have thought by definition you would need a personality to win this award?

I guess it's the BBC pandering to Ferguson so that he'll agree to be interviewed by them again.

Linekar's Tiger Woods wise cracks were cringeworthy too, although at least we got 5 seconds more coverage than Wigan & Saints he he

RL got 41 seconds worth of airtime.

Abysmal.

I rang up 20 times to get Giggs voted off the show, think I misunderstood how it works.

looks like you were not the only one mate

What has Giggs achieved? Deciding he was Welsh was his first mistake. If he had ambition to play World Cup football he would have plumped for England, his country of birth. "personality"? I think not.
I use to really look forward to Sports Personality of the year so that I could watch all the best bits of sport from the year. But now BBC has so little live sport, it isn't worth watching

The award has got nothing to do with personality (although from people I know who have met Giggs, they have all said what a decent bloke he is), it's more of a Sportsperson of the year.

If the BBC were pandering to Ferguson surely they would have give him coach of the year. After all he only won the World Club Championship, Premier League, League Cup and got to the final of the European Cup. In fact he was only one game away from playing in every fixture that a club can possibly play in during the season.

Oh dear. I guess you're right he's achieved nothing



By the way he was born in Wales and isn't eligible to play for England.

I thought Giggs winning it was quite imaginative. He has certainly contributed a lot to football and he surpassed Bobby Charlton's games for MUFC didn't he last year?

Despite playing for England as a schoolboy

Yes despite playing for England as a schoolboy he has never been eligible to play for any England senior teams, be it under 17, under 21, B Team or full international as his parents and grandparents are all welsh.

He was eligible through one grandparent to play for either an African team or Carribean but I can't remember which.

Michael Owen had a similar problem he was raised and schooled in Wales but was born in Chester as it is the nearest hospital to where he lived. I think he also played for England schoolboys but that might have been because he went to Lilleshall.

They only changed the rules on this a couple of months ago.

So who did we all want to be Sports Personality that has achieved more than Giggs?

The fairytale story of Jenson Button to become World Champion despite twelve months ago having no team and staring unemployment in the face.

Or Strauss.

I'm not a United fan, but I have to say that Giggs was as worthy a winner of the award as any of the other contenders...My only query is to why this year has been deemed so special over any other??

Personally, I would have gone for David Haye .... But it is quite sad how far Boxing has slipped in the public's opinion, that we produce a Heavyweight Champion and he fails to even make the top 3....20 years ago Bruno would have been a runaway winner if he'd took the title then (he'd probably have been knighted too!!).

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How long has Cardiff been in England?

....'Staring unemployment in the face'...????...



......I don't think things were that drastic for the already-a-millionaire racing driver.

I'm not a fan of F1 either, but according to my friends who are, they tell me that Button is the worst World Champion in living memory????

Thats a bit like us being the worst Challenge Cup final winners in living memory, nobody cares apart from the haters....

"Deciding he was Welsh"? I think once you're born in Cardiff that's pretty much already decided is it not?

I wanted David Haye to win it but I didn't expect him to. Far too much boxing is on pay per view now for the general sporting public to see the biggest fights live and take a genuine interest.

Giggs was not a worthy winner,it was a total farce.If the bbc wanted to honour Giggs then the lifetime achievement award would have been more suited.

Cavendish deserved to win it IMO. His achievements this past year have been incredible.

Giggs has achieved a hell of a lot in football through his career at Man U and deserves some kind of recognition, but i thought it was sports personality of the YEAR?...

For most of last season he was a bit part sub scoring 2 goals (i stand to be corrected on this CBA looking it up) he was far from integral in Man Utd's title win...And was part of a losing champions league side...

Behave yourself



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Fair enough, he won the Milan-San Remo but he finished 131st in the Tour de France





If you're going to big up a cyclist it should be Bradley Wiggins