Giggs named UK sports personality of the year
Earlier this month Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs was crowned the BBC Sports Personality of the year, followed by Formula One world champion Jenson Button and athlete Jessica Ennis. The winner of this annual prestigious award is determined by a public vote on whose achievements have been most outstanding. The veteran winger’s win came as a surprise and even shocked the bookies. He had been an outside chance (even with his 11 league titles and two Champions League winners’ medals) amongst a strong field of contenders. Some 518,000 votes were cast in Giggs’ favour giving him the edge on Jenson who was ultimately the runner up. The win must have come as something of a shock to Giggs also since he hadn’t even prepared a victory speech for the eveningand was very nearly lost for words. Giggs’ victory only goes to show what a soccer obsessed nation we have become. Here’s some footage of his acceptance speech.
