The Gardeners' World Blog

There was an interesting phone-in debate on Radio Five Live last week about Sports Personality Of The Year. One of the main questions: is there one this year? Five Live listeners voted Nicole Cooke as one of their early favourites, though there was a strong lobby for Mr or Ms Nobody. Alastair Campbell is someone else voting Cooke.

Well, the show will happen as usual and many millions will tune in as they always do. It is, of course, a review of sporting events in 2006 - and from the World Cup to the Winter Olympics, there's been plenty to talk about. And it's interesting just how many times Sports Personality is mentioned in the papers - who's in the running, who's up, who's down. It's an award that means a lot to the winners, and if ever you're stuck in a Pub Quiz in remembering who they all were there are lists on the web.

So who is in contention this year?