The award took place in a city which has always loved sport and was able to celebrate its own winners during the BBC showIt is not long ago that a few of the concepts as witnessed in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter on Sunday evening would hold surfaced in the realms of the impossible.
Given the violent backdrop to this city’s history,the very thought of the BBC hosting a Sports Personality of the Year event in Northern Ireland was once inconceivable. So, too, and any suggestion of a Northern Ireland football manager taking delivery of the coach of the year. In a broader sense recent confirmation that the Open Championship will return to Royal Portrush served as confirmation of this region’s uplifting rehabilitation.
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Source: theguardian.com