Controversial golfer Ian Poulter has landed himself in hot water once more, by saying on his Twitter account that the decision to give the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award to champion jockey AP McCoy was ‘bollox’.
McCoy won the award ahead of darts player Phil Taylor and heptathlete Jessica Ennis, while golfers Graeme McDowell and Lee Westwood were also in contention.
Poulter, who is good buddies with both Westwood and G-Mac, couldn’t understand how Westwood, who became the number one golfer in the world this year, or McDowell, who won the US Open and sank the winning putt for Europe in the Ryder Cup, didn’t win the award.
Poulter vented his rage, as is the style these days, via his Twitter account, saying: “BBC Spoty (Sports Personality of the Year) farce, sorry how could @Graeme_McDowell or @WestwoodLee not win. GMac wins a major westy world no 1. That’s Bollox.”
Poulter followed his original post with a series of comments (see below) lambasting the awards as a whole and the fact that a darts player, Phil Taylor, managed to finish in second.
“Darts comes second in the BBC Spoty voting get a grip. Congrats to AP. Great sportsman and a gent but wasn’t my choice.
“It’s called sports personality of the year not years AP is a legend for sure but he should have won it a couple of years ago.”
He later qualified his comments by defending his right to express his opinions on the social networking site.
“People are we or are we not aloud (sic) our own opinions. They are free and we don’t all have to like the same things.
Poulter’s tweets will no doubt cause a stir outrage from fans of McCoy and Phil Taylor, but the flamboyantly dressed golfer really should have learned his lesson about what he puts up on his Twitter page.
He previously got in trouble for calling Spurs fans ‘yids’ and posting a video of him and his children eating cereal out of the Ryder Cup trophy.
