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Alternative Sports Personality of the Year

August 26, 2004

Errol Alexis has been nominated for the Guardian’s Alternative Sports Personality of the Year (by fellow founder member Phil Hexter). At some point they’ll open a vote on the shortlist.

I’m quite impressed with these two alternative suggestions:

“ I would like to nominate Lloyd Scott: the diving suit-wearing, cash-raising, marathon man because he has in one year turned marathon running from a mildly dull sport into a phenomenally tedious affair. He may have raised a hundred thousand but he has surely set the sport of marathon running back 50 years. Watching some fool run the race in an antique diving suit and take a week doing so made me realise why snooker still gets on TV.”

“ The greatest quote of all time is from the QPR boss Ian Holloway for this post-match analogy: ‘To put it in gentlemen’s terms, if you’ve been out for a night and looking for a young lady and you pull one, you’ve done what you set out to do. We didn’t look our best today but we’ve pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks they’re not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let’s have coffee.’ He’s barking.”

While I’ve got your attention, are we through and through self-obsessed? See also the comments.

Posted by Dave at August 26, 2004 05:25 PM

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