What a spectacular own goal by the BBC!

Now let me say first off that Ryan Giggs is a player who, until five years ago, I would have queued up and paid to see play. Even now at 36 he demonstrates that the fastest five yards in football are in the head, his contribution to the history of his club and the league that he plays in cannot be diminished and his mantelpiece must be supported by an rsj given the number of trophies he has won in his long illustrious career, but he doesn't have a personality!

His entry in the shortlist of candidates for this years Sports Personality of the Year was a mistake on the part of the BBC. To choose a player who contributed so little in Manchester United's 2008-9 season was a mistake, to actually choose a player who plays for the best supported club in the world (possibly) was also a mistake - didn't they realise that all the United fans in the country would phone-in before the final of X-Factor began? Ryan Giggs would have been a worthy recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award (which this year went to the legend that is Seve Ballesteros) but to be placed ahead of so many world champions and winners seemed wrong.

Jenson Button had been favourite but just as last year, when Sir Chris Hoy beat Lewis Hamilton, it was a case of two legs better than four, although my choice Jessica Ennis did at least get third place. The controversy didn't just end with Giggsy getting the top award, the English Women's Cricket Team somehow came second to the Mens' team!

Eddie Izzard picked up a special sporting award for his 43 marathons in 51 days during which time, and as a result of which, he raised over £300,000 for Sports Relief - well done that failed Accountancy student!

As happens with this type of event there are moments when you can feel yourself welling up or the hairs on your neck standing up. Jose Maria Olazabal was so overwhelmed by being with Seve that you just wanted to reach out and give him a manly hug Seve lightened the mood by asking Jose how his swing was going. Watching Cav come round the final bend onto the Champs Elysees was another tingling moment taking me back to those three days in Paris last July, Usain Bolt winning and breaking more records.

The most emotional moment though was undoubtedly watching Major Phil Packer receive the Helen Rollason award. As has been discussed before sometimes you witness something or somebody that makes you feel so small, so humble and Major Packer can only be an inspiration to anybody who feels that sometimes the effort is too much. The emotions weren't because of seeing a paraplegic who has run the London Marathon, rowed across the English Channel and climbed a mountain so that a charity can help young people and the Help The Heroes organisation, it was for a man who didn't want to give in when it could have been so easy to do so.

I hope that Jessica Ennis can win gold in 2012 and win the Personality Award then because she clearly does have a personality, we just have to hope an ageing David Beckham doesn't help England win the Euro's that year or we might just see another case of daylight robbery on the BBC!