There were only two credible candidates for this year's award - Lewis Hamilton (for both his off-track activities and his unparalleled on-track success) and Marcus Rashford (for combining a respectable sporting career with doing more for the country than the vast majority of our elected politicians).
Now that Rashford hasn't been nominated, the only question is whether Hamilton takes the win or whether the voting public embarrasses themselves. Hamilton holds the record for second place finishes, so the latter might be a massive surprise...
Remember when Giggs robbed Button in 09.
Like a few others here, that's the main thing I think of when I think about poor SPOTY decisions.
It's not that Giggs wasn't a successful footballer (F1matt lists some of his achievements in the years running up to 2008), it's that he hadn't done anything in 2009 to compare to Button's fairytale year. I struggle to believe that any of the voters ringing in from Wales or Surrey genuinely thought he'd had a great year rather than simply wanting to celebrate his career at United and Wales!