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Main award to be presented just before 9pm GMTWant to share your thoughts? Send Barry an emailThe Sports Personality of the Year Awards are upon us again. For some, they are a warm festive televisual comfort blanket, while others see them as an increasingly anachronistic exercise in box-ticking. Whatever your view, this annual orgy of often self-congratulatory backslapping is now celebrating its platinum jubilee and will tonight be hosted by BBC royalty in the form of Gary Lineker, Alex Scott, Gabby Logan and Clare Balding.Tonight’s ceremony comes from Media City in Salford, where the good and the great of domestic and international sport will assemble, while the majority of the audience, the viewing public, will tune in from their living rooms. Continue reading...