No footballers make BBC award shortlist
2010 started with many people genuinely convinced that England had a great chance of winning the World Cup and at one stage Wayne Rooney traded at [4.3] to be named BBC Sports Personality of the Year, however after a miserable summer for the Three Lions, not one player made the shortlist.
The award was contentiously won by Ryan Giggs in 2009 but this year it will be dart players, divers (Steven Gerrard joke resisted) and Winter Olympians among others battling for the public's affection.
The frontrunner to take home the prize right now is record-breaking jockey Tony McCoy, who won the Grand National for the first time this year, at [1.92], however recent years have shown that the favourite rarely win, while nobody associated with horse racing has even received the honour.
If you fancy a wager but doubt McCoy then your options are to either lay him at [1.94] or back one of the other leading candidates. Ryder Cup hero Graeme McDowell is second in the running at [7.0] with Phil Taylor ([8.6]) and Lee Westwood ([12.5]) also earning a reasonable amount of support.
The biggest outsider of the ten is boxer David Haye at [80.0], with punters perhaps resentful at shelling out close to £15 to watch him batter Audley Harrison in the third round of their fight last month.
Did any footballer deserve to be on the shortlist? Who should win? Tell us below...
Published: 30 Nov 2010
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