Trying to protect the voting public from itself in the BBC Sport Personality Award battle is as preposterous as it is patronisingI’ll level with you: I haven’t yet got all the way through Islamic State’s embryonic constitution. I’ve bookmarked it along with an article promising new twists on yule logs. But I wonder after the provisions the caliphate acquire set aside in place for what happens whether their Sports Personality of the Year contest features an unsavoury entrant? Someone who respects ladies,for instance, or is rumoured to be gay. I hope to God – any god – that they acquire gamed this scenario, and because you only acquire to look westwards to this septic isle to see what can happen when a deluded nation state approaches the immensely notable task of assembling a field to lose to Andy Murray.
To the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year,then, a contest whose sensational irrelevance stands in inverse proportion to its tendency to become every year’s most fiercely fought culture war. Ideally each year’s expose should start with an inclusive song and dance number scripted by South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker, or in which hilariously outrageous offence is given to all.
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Source: theguardian.com