Lol when I saw the thread title I misread it and thought you were saying he was spotty!

I'd be surprised if he did win it - he may have a chance of a top 3 spot if he wins the Masters Cup though, but if he had won the US Open final, I think there's a good chance he could have won the trophy.

My current call would be Nicole Cooke - first person ever to win the Olympic Road Race and then the World Championship Roadf Race, as well as all of her other achievements throughout the season.

I do actually think Nicole Cooke is a good shout, based on what she has achieved, but I'm pretty sure it ain't going to happen.

If Hamilton wins the World Driver's Championship, I could see the top 3 in order being :
 
Hamilton, Adlington, Hoy

I don't myself agree with very much about that at all, but that's my guess about the Great British public.

Actually, it''s a really good field compared to some years i.e. such as the the last 2 years :

2006 :  Zara Phillips, the 3 day event World Champion ( and reigning European champion ).  Great achievement, and I would never denigrate it as much as some with other agendas.  But Pippa Funnell never seemed to come close.  Unfortunately she missed the Olympics.  If she had won there this year, my word, folk would have started treating her like royalty  

2007 :  Joe Calzaghe.  I had to wrack my brains there ( I knew Hamilton had missed out ), and nearly resorted to Google,  Great boxer.  But in this case a variety of belts for exactly the same weight divisions, and Joe arguably has reigned long in one of the weaker ones. But last year he did get some probably overdue recognition and at the right time, in November     won a big unification fight at the Milleniun Stadium.

Ricky Hatton would actually have won it if he had beaten Floyd Mayweather,  even closer to the SPOTY awards.  Though his achievements are lesser in my view, Hatton, to be fair does have more of a personality..

Chris Hoy - Andy next year!

Partly for sexist reasons, Victoria Pendleton. Certainly the most attractive British cyclist of all time who would have won as many goals as Sir Chris had she had the events to ride in.

Andy won't win it until he's world no1 and has won a couple of Slams.

Rebecca Adlington gets my vote as the most unexpected double gold medallist and a pleasant young lady to boot.

Hamilton now has it in the bag

Lewis was unlucky with that late rain shower.

But in the end, so lucky, lucky, lucky !!

Needing to hold onto 5th place, he couldn't do it and Vettel got past.  When the crunch came he made a slight mistake, at that moment he had failed at the crunch.

Kubica confused things a bit, Lewis made a slight mistake and Vettel pounced, that is what Happened from where I was looking.

I love the attempt to by McLaren to try and write into history that Lewis let Vettel past, because they were confidant of catching Glock.

Sure dry tyres or not, Glock was more than 20 seconds ahead and not significantly slowing at that point, and it still didn't seem to be raining that hard at all when Vettel went past.

In the end Lweis only just did it with Glock's really really slow final lap.

Thanks go the rain just finally getting a bit harder in the final lap, plus Glock's seeming total inability to handle a car on dry tyres in such not too wet conditions. 

Congratulations Lewis, but you got a bit lucky there, mate.