Roger Alton Roger Alton

Peace, love and understanding — and other sporting achievements

Roger Alton reviews the week in Sport

issue 19 December 2009

Forget the Spectator Parliamentarian Awards, or the Oscars for that matter, it’s the annual Spectator Sports Awards that count. Indeed in Hollywood, the Oscars are known as the Spectator Sports Awards of the film industry. Our judges have been busier than Rachel Uchitel’s lawyers sorting out our shortlists, and now finally a roster of winners has emerged, representing the best and the brightest of this remarkable sporting year.

First up is a new category, the Plaxico Burress Award for Shooting Yourself in the Foot, named after the New York Giants wide receiver who took a gun into a Manhattan nightclub and accidentally put a bullet into his own leg: there were two hugely deserving candidates here. First, Nelson Piquet Jr, who deliberately crashed his car in a Formula 1 race last year and has been virtually unemployable ever since; but he was acting under orders from Flavio Briatore and so was ruled out.

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