I'm sorry, but this is yet another non story, whipped up out of all proportions, by our media (Andy Gray/Richard Keys and Sepp Blatter, anyone), to deflect attention away from their 'behaviour' of the last few months ...see the Leveson enquiry
To be honest, there's not been much British female success this year, bar Beth Tweddle (and that was 'only' Euro level). The rest of our successful sportswomen, will have been in sports that don't get much exposure. One of today's national newspapers wanted SPOTY recognition for a woman who'd lost her parents but was still a world champion....in taekwando. Now, I'm not knocking taekwando, but I'm guessing 99.9% of the UK wouldn't know this woman's face if she fell over them, let alone know her name.
It's just been announced that the Beeb are to review their selection procedure for SPOTY. WHY? Are they trying to be deliberately politically correct, so no-one can be left out. It'll be like Big Brother, where they HAVE to have somebody that's either gay/lesbian/black/jewish/disabled/asian/agnostic/transgender/dwarfism/fat/disfigured/intellectual etc.
Why can't people just be chosen for what they've acheived thatsporting year, not because they "tick the box" for some particular 'group of people'
The Beeb need to look at axing SPOTY anyway, as they really don't show much LIVE sport anymore
F1 (which they'll lose 60% of next year, and share the rest with Sky), and Moto GP
A few games of rugby (both codes)
A few selected horse race meetings
Two, four round golf tournaments
A few live football league/league cup games (with the World cup and Euro's every four years)
A couple of athletics meetings
A couple of snooker/darts comps
3 weeks worth of tennis
and the Olympics/Commonwealth's every 4 years
and that's it
They show NO cricket or boxing,and precious little football, at all
