James Anderson
Status: Eliminated
Thank the Lord for #BBC #SPOTY2018, that annual reminder of the ability of sport, and those who play/coach it, to entertain, inspire, fascinate, move and bloody thrill. And not just the brilliant @jimmy9. But he's my favourite.
.@jimmy9 should win #SPOTY but he won't because "it's cricket".
His achievements this year have been phenomenal
Its a great surprise to see Jimmy Anderson on the shortlist for #SPOTY but his career has been brilliant and hes done so much in the game. He seems like a genuinely nice person as well.
I'm voting for @jimmy9 for SPOTY
think Jimmy's is the most impressive for individual achievement.... Plus I was there to witness the wicket that did it and got this amazing photo of the moment!
#SPOTY #BBCSPOTY #JimmyAnderson #cricket
Tough call for #SPOTY would love to see Jimmy win it but can't look past one of the greatest ever in his sport #teamLH
Oh Jimmy, Jimmy! What an athlete. Outstanding achievements. Alistair Cooks farewell 100 goes down as one of the greatest sporting moments in my lifetime let alone this year in my eyes as well #SPOTY
Not even bothering to watch #SPOTY2018 - love Jimmy Anderson, but not world champions? standard BBC overlooking minority sports with #TaiWoffinden - @jonathanrea nearly winning last year mustve scared the living daylights out of them!
Not even bothering to watch #SPOTY2018 - love Jimmy Anderson, but not world champions? standard BBC overlooking minority sports with #TaiWoffinden - @jonathanrea nearly winning last year moustache scared the living daylights out of them!
Not even bothering to watch #SPOTY2018 - love Jimmy Anderson, but overlooking world champions? standard BBC overlooking minority sports with #TaiWoffinden - @jonathanrea nearly winning last year moustache scared the living daylights out of them!
James Anderson deserves #SPOTY from a lifetime perspective like when Giggs won it. But cricket needs to get back on terrestrial TV before a cricketer wins it again.
If anyone deserves to win #SPOTY its @jimmy9 Englands best bowler ever the worlds leading pace bowler and has done it consistently for over a decade
Great work @BBCSport saluting the brilliance of the great @jimmy9 - such a great bowler for us over so many years. Just a shame that more people weren't able to see him on TV and be inspired by him #spoty
Decent list, hoping Jimmy wins #spoty
Touching tribute as ever by Sports Personality Of The Year to our fallen friends of 2018, made even more poignant by Jimmy McIlroys appearance in the tribute. A true Burnley legend, gone but never forgotten. #SPOTY #twitterclarets
Would love Jimmy to win but its just not gonna happen #SPOTY
You simply HAVE to vote for @jimmy9 to win #SPOTY. What a servant he's been to English cricket and seems to be getting even better at 36.
Would be remarkable for Jimmy to get to winning #SPOTY2018 given that @BBCSport & @BBCNews pays little attention to cricket.
Good luck @jimmy9 in tonights @BBCSPOTY from everyone at Wythenshawe CC, Manchester #SPOTY2018
Hope Jimmy Anderson wins #SPOTY
#SPOTY2018 #anderson in NOT the greatest fast bowler in Test history! He may have played so long hes got most wickets, but there are MANY greater bowlers in Test history.
I'd love it if Jimmy Anderson won #SPOTY
Let Burnley Express win.... come on Jimmy Anderson #spoty
Love #SportsPersonalityOfTheYear @jimmy9 from my home town of Burnley. Gary's just said, 'I used to play with his Dad'...lol.
If James Anderson wins SPOTY for taking a few wickets on a green top. Then the powers that be have to seriously re consider the 2015 award when big Pat Dudley took numerous wickets on absolute dual carriageways to become the Sunday development leading wicket taker. #SPOTY #fraud
Out of that list. Hope Jimmy Anderson wins it... #SPOTY
We might be a bit biased but there's only one person we'll be voting for #SPOTY tonight!
Good luck, @jimmy9!
#LoveLords
#BBCSPOTY
To my fellow #SPOTY voters- a reminder that Flintoff and Botham are the only two cricketers to have won the award; plenty of track athletes, footballers and cyclists have won it over the years...
Jimmy Anderson this year!
Really hope @jimmy9 wins #Spoty
Did Lineker really call Anderson the 'greatest Test fast bowler in history' and not mean it as a joke #SPOTY
Congratulations to @lancscricket and @englandcricket legend @jimmy9 being nominated for #SPOTY
#GetVoting #HistoryMaker #LivingLegend
Nominating Jimmy Anderson and not Ronnie O'Sullivan? This award is actually a joke #SPOTY
I want Jimmy to win it! #SPOTY
Jimmy Anderson 31746 test bowls - 565 wickets thats an astonishing success rate % #SPOTY #lessthantwo
Not sure I'd class Jimmy Anderson as the greatest fast bowler. #SPOTY
@jimmy9 What am amazing cricketer and from Lancashire too! #SPOTY2018
Look, @jimmy9 is an all time great in the only sport that matters... #spoty
.@jimmy9 in the six shortlisted for @BBCSPOTY #SPOTY
Come on @lancscricket fans, vote!!
Right #tailenders let's get @jimmy9 to win #SPOTY #tailendersoftheworlduniteandtakeover
Jimmy Anderson wins it for me #SPOTY
Delighted that @jimmy9 has been nominated for #Spoty time for Tailenders to unite and vote. Go well Jimmy! #tailendersoftheworlduniteandtakeover
@jimmy9 has my vote. The greatest swing bowler of all time #SPOTY
I just voted for @jimmy9 #SPOTY greatest English bowler of his generation.
@jimmy9 is my winner #SPOTY2018 #spoty
The greatest fast bowler of all time (to date), and first English cricketer & one of only six to take 500 Test wickets #JimmyAnderson @jimmy9 gets my #SPOTY vote
#SPOTY2018 @jimmy9 brilliant bowler #theoldestswingerintown
Jimmy Anderson should win. End of discussion #SPOTY
Come on people of #Burnley. Sports personality of the year has got to be @jimmy9 Anderson.
Get voting when the phone lines open - ring from mobile 62282 01
#spoty
Bloody love Jimmy Anderson #spoty
#SPOTY for me should go to Jimmy Anderson. The best bowler this country has ever produced.
Record speaks for itself.