Remarkably, Joe Calzaghe won the BBC Sports Personaility of the Year last night. Having watched his pal Ricky Hatton lose in Las Vegas early yesterday and thereby missing what would have been a nailed-on win for the Hitman, Joe was the natural winner following the year he's had and having come close on several occasions before.
Surely though, he owes his win to Blue Peter following the phone-in scandals of the last year. The media always seem to know who's won this award in advance (no big surprise) and all the hubbub in the last week has been over whether or not Ricky Hatton could pip Lewis Hamilton. Last year's award went, astonishly and embarrassingly, to HRH Zara Phillips. This, when the contest was supposed to be decided by viewer votes. The nation voted for a privileged equestrian event winner? I don't think so, even it she is a Royal. BBC sycophancy had intervened.
What was interesting yesterday, was a phone-in and listener poll run by Radio Five Live which was heavily in Calzaghe's favour. I swore never to watch the programme again after having wasted two hours of my life and I didn't watch last night. So, I am really pleased that Joe has won and that the phone-in scandals have given us something more than a few casualties at the broadcasters.
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