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BBC Sports Personality - What A Joke
The shortlist for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2007 was announced last night. I'm really pissed off with this, mainly because David Healy is more or less ignored.
Nominees were apparently selected based on votes from news papers, all of whom failed to deem Sir David worthy of a mention with the exception of the Belfast Telegraph (naturally) and Nuts magazine (fair play lads).
Imagine Wayne Rooney had broken the record for goals scored in qualifying. Now imagine he'd done that fronting an England team that began the campaign ranked 72nd in the world instead of 5th. Do you think he would have been ignored?
The full list reads:
- Joe Calzaghe (considered Welsh but born in London)
- Lewis Hamilton (English; abandoned the UK for a more tax-efficient country)
- Ricky Hatton (English)
- Andy Murray (Scottish; missed Wimbledon through injury, but is in "the top 10")
- Christine Ohuruogu (English; banned from competing for nearly the entire year because she missed three drug tests in a row!)
- Paula Radcliffe (English; sat out the whole season up to 30th September)
- Jason Robinson (English)
- Justin Rose (English)
- James Toseland (English)
- Jonny Wilkinson (English)
Now, I'm completely against tokenism and I'm not looking for special treatment or some kind of unofficial quota of regional representation, but the fact is David Healy deserves to be there and had he done what he's done in an England shirt, he would be. On top of that, what's the deal with two England rugby players making it? Just because an English side got to a final and the football team were bloody awful? Sheesh!
Needless to say I won't be watching the show at all. In my eyes it has no credibility following this complete mockery of a nomination process.