The Gardeners' World Blog

We still have five months to go before this year's Sports Personality of the Year is unveiled, but some people have made their minds up already. The bookmakers Paddy Power are accepting bets on anyone except Lewis Hamilton, and a lot of the press and blog comment has moved from last year’s:

“They're all second-rate and nobody deserves to win”

To this year’s:

“It's all cut-and-dried now, so why bother to have a vote at all?”