BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2012

[Neil Young]

I couldn't think of another word but you're hardly gruntled.

I don't know the story but is it actually relevant in any way?

That's exactly the point. You didn't know and very few do.

I think that's strange because I'd have thought it might be of interest, yes. In an era when rocks are being turned over everywhere else and we're finding all sorts of scuttling insects underneath - MP's expenses, Libor, BBC, Operation Yewtree, Leveson/Murdoch/Hunt/Brooks/Coulson/Cameron, Hillsborough, Orgreave, corporate tax avoidance, individual tax avoidance, paedophile scandals - but the man who headed the organising the biggest sporting event in this country since 1966, no, in fact, ever, personally makes £10.8m by selling his (and William Hague's) company to a PR/marketing firm which played a major role in, and made a lot of money from, the Olympic Games...Move along, nothing to see here...

[Neil Young]

No, I know. That's just one of the reasons I can't stand the ****. I think I might have mentioned it before.

[mick the click]

I'd have thought it might be of interest, yes. In an era where rocks are being turned over everywhere else and we're finding all sorts of scuttling insects underneath - MP's expenses, Libor, BBC, Operation Yewtree, Leveson/Murdoch/Hunt/Brooks/Coulson/Cameron, Hillsborough, Orgreave, corporate tax avoidance, individual tax avoidance, paedophile scandals - but the man who headed the organising the biggest sporting event in this country since 1966, no, in fact, ever, personally makes £10.8m by selling his (and William Hague's) company to a PR/marketing firm which played a major role in, and made a lot of money from, the Olympic Games.

Lord Coe!!!!

Turn on Dom, turn on!

[BobTheCharmer]

Coe's parents were a bit posh as well from the footage, or I may be mistaken? Sebastian is quite a posh name as well. Don't like Coe as well - think him being a tory doesn't help.

****ing hell. Chip on shoulder or what. There are posh people in this world. They're not all evil. Seb Coe was a fanastic athelete and worked his arse off to make London 2012 happen. Judging people on poshness is quite frankly bollocks.

[Neil Young]

And the £10.8m, Bob?

[Fredo]

****ing hell. Chip on shoulder or what. There are posh people in this world. They're not all evil. Seb Coe was a fanastic athelete and worked his arse off to make London 2012 happen. Judging people on poshness is quite frankly bollocks.

Well yeah I'm probably harsh.

[Neil Young]

Anyway, they weren't really posh. Middle-class - hardly in Cameron's blue blood circle.

That's a dead herring, Nigel.

[Alex]

Thread.Killed.

[Neil Young]

[Chazza]

Last 10 winners
2012: Bradley Wiggins (cycling)
2011: Mark Cavendish (cycling)
2010: Tony McCoy (horse racing)
2009: Ryan Giggs (football)
2008: Sir Chris Hoy (cycling)
2007: Joe Calzaghe (boxing)
2006: Zara Phillips (Equestrian)
2005: Andrew Flintoff (cricket)
2004: Dame Kelly Holmes (athletics)
2003: Jonny Wilkinson (rugby union)

[Daniel 7]

Thread.Killed.

And there I was hoping a celeb / royal bukkake flurry themed post might have resulted in thread death...

[Chazza]

Francis Keogh @HonestFrank
Total Sports personality votes cast: 1,626,718. 1 Wiggins 492,064 (30.25%) 2 Ennis 372,765 (22.92) 3 Murray 230,444 (14.17)

4 Farah 131,327 (8.07%) 5 Weir 114,633 (7.05) 6 Simmonds 102,894 (6.33) 7 Hoy 42,961 (2.64) 8 Adams 35,560 2.19

9 Ainslie 35,373 (2.17%) 10 McIlroy 29,729 (1.83) 11 Grainger 28,626 (1.76) 12 Storey 10,342 (0.64)

[baitman]

what do i win

[Liverpel]

Didn't thank his team mates though.

Did he thank his "doctors"?

[Neil Young]

That's disappointingly ill-informed.