Sports Personality of the Year.

[We3kingsoforientRaahh]

i love this usually makes me cry.
Doubt the England footy team will win the team award
But WHY are Posh, Becks and sons sat on the front row? She is such a miserable looking woman!!
But the good thing is every time the camera goes to them, Michael Johnson is sat next to them- and he is gorgeous.

[BaroqinAroundTheChristmasTree]

There were a lot of young ones in the last year weren't there

[We3kingsoforientRaahh]

I know- now i am crying....

[soppy]

[llareggub]

We were offered tickets for this but we couldn't get babysitters. To be honest I'd have tried a bit harder if I'd known how good it would have been! Instead we are watching from the sofa.

[TigersChick]

Why isn't Giggsy presenting the awards? I thought it was last years winner who was supposed to do it!

[Oblomov]

no surprsie eenis in third. taylor in seond.

[TigersChick]

DH won't be happy - he's in love with Jess Ennis

[Oblomov]

I think Tony McCoy is the right choice.

[TigersChick]

But I am!!
Well done AP [frin]

[We3kingsoforientRaahh]

Good winner. Very well deserved (even if I, like many others i expect, didn't really know who he was until a couple of hours ago!).

[Oblomov]

Caveman, AP it is. thank you.

[TigersChick]

I think he's the first jockey to win it, too. I know that Princess Anne and Zara have both won it but they aren't jockeys in the same sense.

[CaveMum]

Get in AP!

The bookies will have taken a right bashing! He was odds on and racing folk have been piling in like there's no tomorrow!

[CaveMum]

Tony McCoy is the first jockey to win SPOTY. Frankie Dettori was third in the year of his Magnificent Seven (96 or 97) - he rode the winner of every race on one day at Ascot.

Sadly horseracing doesn't get the exposure it used to. Time was everyone knew the name of that years Derby or Grand National winner, but not anymore.

[TigersChick]

So much else going on, I suppose, CaveMum ... which isn't entirely a bad thing IMHO. Tho it is sad when what used to be national events drift into obscurity ... (not that the Derby or National are there yet, just saying ...)

[gailforce1]

Well deserved winner. He clearly adores his daughter. Would not want to be a NH jockey's wife/girlfriemd/mother - wondering if they are going to walk thro the door each evening after racing. They can ride in 5 or 6 races in an afternoon and could sustain a life threatening/changing injury in anyone of them. Heroes all.

[careergirl]

Well done AP! Truly deserved he's a great ambassador for National Hunt racing.