23-12-2022, 12:22 PM
(23-12-2022, 12:26 AM)DE88 Wrote: This might be bumping the thread but... seriously, was there *that* little interest in SPOTY this year?
There's certainly no denying that the winner and the runner-up could be seen from a mile away - and it was known before the show began, too, that Messi had won the World Sport Star award and Usain Bolt the Lifetime Achievement award.
But could it be that the whole thing is generally considered boring and formulaic now? Obviously, the days when it was the Sports *Review* of the Year, when Des Lynam hosted, when there were the Funnies and segments such as the one from 1990 below, are in the past and will never be returned to - but what *can* it do to be more exciting in this age?
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That was when the programme - when it was Sports Review of the Year - was held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and it was there for many years after leaving (BBC) Television Centre.
(In response to the OP who suggested that the programme hosted from Salford for the third year in a row was the first time this happened since the TVC days)