BBC Sports Personality Of The Year

The Betfair Contrarian: Why Jenson Button won't win BBC Sports Personality of the Year

The Betfair Contrarian / 21 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Get busy laying Jenson Button in the Spoty odds says the Contrarian - he's no Mansell, in fact he's not even a Hill, and the public simply do not like him enough...Read more »

Everyone loves an underdog but does Jenson Button really fit that category?

Mike O’Donnell / 19 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Eighty-nine points, eight podium finishes, four pole positions and still one race to go. Not bad for a man who just three weeks before the beginning of the 2009 Formula 1 season was trading at [290.0] on Betfair....Read more »

Sports Personality of the Year Betting: Why Eddie Izzard must win

Ralph Ellis / 17 September 2009 / Leave a comment

In a year when there is no standout candidate, Ralph Ellis makes an early bid for an unlikely candidate to walk away with the most irrelevant award in sport......Read more »

BBC Sports Personality of the Year Betting 2009: Back boxing boys for the big one

Dave Farrar / 29 April 2009 / Leave a comment

As the sporting year gets into swing, Dave Farrar finds few reasons to get excited by the favourites in the early SPOTY odds....Read more »

SPOTY Betting 2008: Hoy denies odds-on Adlington and Hamilton

Editor / 14 December 2008 / Leave a comment

Outsider trades at [7.2] as voting ends as Sports Personality of the Year again has a shock result....Read more »

BBC Sports Personality of the Year: Hamilton hoping to recover at the last again

Alsy / 12 December 2008 / Leave a comment

The winner of the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year will be announced on Sunday night and as Alister Morgan explains, according to the Betfair Markets, Lewis Hamilton will need a late surge if he is to pip Rebbeca Adlington...Read more »

SPOTY Betting: Beaming Becky is a must bet at odds-against

Ralph Ellis / 09 December 2008 / Leave a comment

The public love nothing more than the girl-next-door from Mansfield with two gleaming gold medals, says Ralph Ellis, and that makes her a solid favourite for the Sports Personality of the Year....Read more »

BBC Sports Personality of the Year Betting: Olympians gaining on Hamilton?

Editor / 03 December 2008 / Leave a comment

The nominations for this year's Sport Personality of the Year award have been announced. But where is the value in the Betfair market?...Read more »

Overseas Sports Personality Of The Year Betting: Plenty of candidates in a great sporting year

Alsy / 18 September 2008 / Leave a comment

Alister Morgan looks at the market favourites in this year's Overseas SPOTY odds......Read more »

Murray 4.5 to net US crown and SPOTY award tonight

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 08 September 2008 / Leave a comment

As Andy Murray gets the biggest match of his career under way at tonight's US Open final, punters on Betfair's BBC Sports Personality Of The Year market will be watching events closely....Read more »