BBC Sports Personality 2016

This years list of candidates for the prize of BBC Sports Personality has been revealed. I will go in to it in more detail closer to the event but I can say that the majority of the 16 strong field are gold medallists from both this years Olympics and Paralympics. However as it is all awards there debate about who is not on the list, Chris Froome who won his thrid Tour de France, Alistair Cook the Circket  who made a number of Test scoring records this year and no member of the England Rugby Union Grand Slam . As for who will win? Again I will leave that closer to the event to talk about but given it is a phone in vote surprises can happen. Jensen Button announcing his retirement last week brings to mind one such example,  at the start of 2009 Button at one point found himself without a team however a last minute buy out of his  previous helped to give a drive for the season and from then on he went on to win the F1 Drivers World Championship. Most times this would give Button the SPOTY prize but thanks to bloc voting from Manchester United fans Ryan Gggs won for a  average season in which they only The Premier League title.