Its a bit early but today the contenders for the Young sports personality of the year were announced

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_rad...ear/8342437.stm

And the early betting for the main award

8/13: Jenson Button
3/1: Jessica Ennis
4/1: David Haye
16/1: Andrew Strauss
20/1: Ryan Giggs
33/1: Beth Tweddle

So, Jenson Button then?

Please not Button, for god sake he only won because his car had a part that made him quicker than the others for 7 races, when the other cars got their diffusers and we had a level playing field Button was nowhere.

Exactly. Ross Brawn deserves the praise. Button simply steered a quality car.

Just like Rubens did, only to come third...


WTF is Giggs doing up there?

Only because Brawn favoured Jenson in the early races. It was quite obvious.


Don't get me wrong, who am I to begrudge a world champion, but Ross Brawn's achievement in comparison is far greater.

Steve Bruce

We won the Ashes!!!!

Strauss surely

Don't agree entirely. Jenson set the standards early on in the season, more so than Rubens, despite them both having the quickest cars on the grid, so Brawn focused on Jenson more untill Rubens spat the dummy out. Jenson was their number 1 driver anyway, so it's to be expected. Just like Mclaren did with Lewis ahead of Alonso, Red Bull with Vettel over Webber, Ferrari with Kimi ahead of Massa 2 years ago, then Massa ahead of Kimi last year, etc...

I'd say David Haye must be in for a shout.

Jenson Button at the end of the day has the personality of a brick, he is very uninteresting and comes across as arrogant but in a smug sort of way. Frankly, the car won him the world championship.

David Haye is loud and brash and has fought his way through to becomes Britains best pound for pound boxer and one of the worlds best culminating in a victory over a giant. Again he is arrogant but it is more for show than anything else.

Of course, because it is BBC's show and they do F1, Button will be pushed for the award as far as they possibly can and will probably win it, wrongly imo.

Jessica Ennis will win

The 10 final nominees for the main award will be announced tonight on BBC One's "The One Show" at 7pm, i'll alter the thread in order to put up a poll when it is announced.

Ironic I know, but the award has nothing to do with "personality" - it's just about who was most successful, making the name a bit ridiculous. In fairly recent years, the likes of Zara Phillips, David Beckham, Michael Owen and Paula Radcliffe have won it. Hardly the most interesting characters!

You're right that Button will win it - I would be very surprised if he didn't.

Here each of the nominees announced just now

ANDREW STRAUSS - England's Ashes winning captain

DAVID HAYE - The man who sensationally defeated Nikolay Valuev to become World Heavyweight Champion

TOM DALEY - This year became the youngest world diving champion, at just 15 years old

ANDY MURRAY - Maintained his position in the world's top 4 and won multiple tour titles this year

JESSICA ENNIS - Became World Heptathlon champion this year

RYAN GIGGS - Oldest player ever to win the PFA Player Of The Year

JENSON BUTTON - Finally became Formula 1 World Champion this season after 9 years of trying

BETH TWEDDLE - Became the first British Gymnast to become a world champion in generations

MARK CAVENDISH - Won 6 Tour de France stages breaking the record

PHILLIPS IDOWU - Apart from Ennis, he was britain's only other gold medalist in Berlin, becoming the mens triple-jump world champion

stuart broad?

A poor list but from that I'd go for Ennis.

Whilst Haye & Button have both won good titles however, their success is tainted for me by the fact for Button won becuase of his car for 6 races and Haye beat probably the worst heavyweight champion I've seen. Good on them both as you can only beat whats put in front of you but would have thought more of it had the cometition been better.

Latest odds (paddy power)

8/11 - Jenson Button
5/2 - Ryan Giggs*
9/2 - Jessica Ennis
7/1 - David Haye
16/1 - Andrew Strauss
33/1 - Mark Cavendish
50/1 - Beth Tweddle, Andy Murray
80/1 - Tom Daley
125/1 - Phillips Idowu

*If he wins, he can probably thank a campaign on facebook set up by man utd fans to try and get him to win it, the groupset up in question has nearly 2,000 members

Not a consistent year. He was very poor for the first half of the Ashes - if he'd turned up for the whole series it would be his. Definitely a star for the future though!

No way should Giggs win it. Fantastic footballer and career no doubt, and a model professional as for as I'm aware - but he certainly hasn't done enough this year to compete with the others on the list, let alone win. In fact, wasn't winning the PFA Player of the Year based on the whole 2008 anyway as opposed to 2009/09?

Reminds me of the campaign from Everton fans to vote for Peter Crouch when he couldn't score a goal for Liverpool.

If he was up for lifetime achievement, then that would be probably understandable considering what he's done in his career, not the main award though.

I could not think of a more fitting person to recieve this year's lifetime achievement prize than this man

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_rad...ear/8405808.stm

That list is pretty disgraceful actually. Or maybe it just represents how poor the British are at sport. Even so, surely the likes of Tony McCoy or Phil Taylor should be in there...

If you removed Ryan Giggs and Phillips Idowu and replace them with those 2, then i'd agree, the list would be a lot better.

But its easy to see why Taylor never gets into the top 10 list seeing that he plays on the PDC circuit while the BBC has a contract with its bitter rival, the BDO

I'd add Daley and Tweddle to those to be removed too.

Id agree with you on Daley but not on Tweddle

Would you add Bradley Wiggins to those that should have been nominated, seeing his performance in the tour de france this year?

Ennis
Haye
Button

In that order

Im in total agreement with you on that

I don't really care about most of those sports tbh. Would be nice to see Strauss win it being a cricket fan, but he doesn't really deserve it.

Thats nice, the Helen Rollason award going to an Iraq soldier who compelted the london marathon despite losing use of his legs

Nice gesture; 26 miles is some achievement.

The Ashes winning Cricket team wins team of the year, very suprised at that i am

think button will win it, I'd rather see strauss, haye or ennis though

Usain Bolt playing with his overseas award

RYAN GIGGS WINS IT, WTF!?!?!??!

Full overview of who got what

BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2009 - RYAN GIGGS
2nd - Jenson Button
3rd - Jessica Ennis

OVERSEAS SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR - Usain Bolt
YOUNG SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR - Tom Daley
TEAM OF THE YEAR - England Mens Cricket Team
COACH OF THE YEAR - Fabio Capello
HELEN ROLLASON AWARD - Major Phil Packer
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD - Eddie Izzard
UNSUNG HERO AWARD - Doreen Adcock (Swimming Instructor)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Seve Ballesteros

What a shock

A win for Olly in x-factor now will sum up this night of shocks.

No biased voting at all there!

Anyone who thinks Giggs deserves is it stupid imo.

I guess that online campaign by manc fans paid off then

I mean, serously, i can accept he's done a lot and achieved a shitload in his career but the award is for the achievements over the past 12 months, what the feck has he done this year to deserve this award?

Playing a bit part in a title success and getting the sentimental vote to win a PFA Players award is not enough in my book

Yeah, I don't really care tbh as the award is pretty meaningless, but it's a shame people who deserved it much more couldn't win it because of some silly campaign by Mancs.

As you say, winning PFA Players award was because of the sentimental vote - people could argue he deserved it because he'd never previously won it and his undoubtedly fantastic career, but they're fools because the award is primarily for the best player that season and that wasn't Giggs. Then to go and win Sports Personality of the Year, when he wouldn't have been in contention for it were it not for winning the player of the season award, is just taking the piss.

So a man trying for 10 years to win the F1 championship finally achieves his dreams in a car which was at best a cut and shut job with half the resources of every other team is beaten by a sub who warms the bench now. Granted one of the finest players to grace our football pitches but what has he done this year?

Button must be gutted, any poll with a man u player in is pointless due to their global following. Manu U fans - you gotta despise them.

Your first bit isn't quite true. Surely on that basis, Ross Brawn should have been a nominee? Although he's not an 'active' sportsperson, but still. I just don't think Button winning a F1 Championship in a quality car merits him winning.

It's a joke that Giggs won.

I guessing I'm in the minority here but I'm delighted with Giggs winning it. A great role model, carries a great personality and has had a wonderful career thus far. It's about time someone with personality won the award but I'm not sure that is what the award is really judging. I think even the BBC are confused as to what they are looking for. It's less about personality and more about awarding the most monumental achievement of the year. Under that criteria, there were a fair few better achievers than Giggs on the nominations list.

However, for being a joy to watch on the football pitch at times, the man deserves it!

Thats why i voted for Jessica Ennis, i felt she was more deserving than Button and million times more deserving than every manc's favourite bench warmer.

Interestingly as well, its the 3rd year running that an F1 driver has finished runner up in the award

Farcical. But that's the domination of football and Man Utd in particular.

No doubt he's been a great and is a great, but what has he done in the last year to deserve this.