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Sports 'Personality' of the Year 2010


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Who should it be?  

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  1. 1. Who should it be?

    • Mark Cavendish
      4
    • Tom Daley
      0
    • Jessica Ennis
      1
    • David Haye
      0
    • AP McCoy
      4
    • Graeme McDowell
      2
    • Graeme Swann
      5
    • Phil Taylor
      2
    • Lee Westwood
      0
    • Amy Williams
      0


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Westwood for me. He managed to knock Tiger Woods off ther number 1 spot after years of him being on top. Then he was so influentail during the Ryder cup. Haye second and Tom Daley 3rd. European Ryder cup team for the team prize and Federer for the overseas personality.

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Westwood for me. He managed to knock Tiger Woods off ther number 1 spot after years of him being on top. Then he was so influentail during the Ryder cup. Haye second and Tom Daley 3rd. European Ryder cup team for the team prize and Federer for the overseas personality.

Haye second?

Shouldn't even be on the list if we're going by Sporting achievement. I'd have him behind both Froch and Burns.

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Michael Bisping should be on that list. Great article here by Gareth A Davies about the BBC snubbing Bisping yet again.

This cannot continue. The finalists for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award were announced tonight and, not surprisingly, there isn’t a mixed martial artist to be found.

The shortlist has representatives from darts, diving, the world’s best cyclist, golf, and Winter Olympics, a heptathlon champion, an England cricketer and boxer David Haye.

But where is UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping? Representing his native Manchester, he has fought in Sydney, Las Vegas and London in 2010. Many rank him as one the leading middleweights in the world.

David Haye’s two world title fights in 2010, as big as they were in the UK, were not screened in the US. All of Bisping’s bouts since 2006 have been seen in 147 countries, in 19 languages. It is quite possible that Bisping, not Haye or Amir Khan or even Ricky Hatton, is the most-watched British fighter of the last five years.

And yet the BBC, paid for by the British public, refuses to give Bisping – or his sport – any coverage, including on its website.

More here

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/garethadavies/100014042/bbc-snubs-mixed-martial-artist-bisping-again/

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Michael Bisping should be on that list. Great article here by Gareth A Davies about the BBC snubbing Bisping yet again.

This cannot continue. The finalists for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award were announced tonight and, not surprisingly, there isn’t a mixed martial artist to be found.

The shortlist has representatives from darts, diving, the world’s best cyclist, golf, and Winter Olympics, a heptathlon champion, an England cricketer and boxer David Haye.

But where is UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping? Representing his native Manchester, he has fought in Sydney, Las Vegas and London in 2010. Many rank him as one the leading middleweights in the world.

David Haye’s two world title fights in 2010, as big as they were in the UK, were not screened in the US. All of Bisping’s bouts since 2006 have been seen in 147 countries, in 19 languages. It is quite possible that Bisping, not Haye or Amir Khan or even Ricky Hatton, is the most-watched British fighter of the last five years.

And yet the BBC, paid for by the British public, refuses to give Bisping – or his sport – any coverage, including on its website.

More here

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/garethadavies/100014042/bbc-snubs-mixed-martial-artist-bisping-again/

I'd say it's because he is virtually unknown to the general public. He might have been watched by half of the US, it doesn't make him any bigger in Britain. Maybe there is a case for UFC to be broadcast on the BBC, but until they start broadcasting Boxing again they can get ****.

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