How Twitter reacted to Andy Murray’s 2015 SPOTY win
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Andy Murray capped a tremendous year in style by walking away with the 2015 Sports Personality of the Year award on Sunday night.
The tennis star was the vital cog in the Great Britain Davis Cup team, which ended a 79-year wait to be crowned champions, with Murray at the heart of the action.
The Scot was undefeated in singles rubbers throughout the tournament and won all three of his matches, including the doubles with his brother Jamie, in the final against Belgium.
That was enough for Murray to see off all challengers and take over from Formula 1’s Lewis Hamilton as the SPOTY king.
Here’s how the action unfolded on Twitter on Sunday night…
The BBC were on hand with the numbers shortly after the result was announced…
The numbers… https://t.co/2ABoYeeruq #SPOTY pic.twitter.com/r0ECRTn4C9
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 20, 2015
And the BBC again – it is their award after all – followed up with quote from the man himself summing up his and his team’s achievement…
.@andy_murray “This has been a 5 year journey. We were down at the bottom & now we’re no.1 in the world!” #SPOTY pic.twitter.com/dWD7c2VSGB — BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 20, 2015
Murray earned the admiration of tonnes of fellow sportsmen and former Manchester United and England star Rio Ferdinand was soon on hand to dish out the congratulations…
Congrats @andy_murraygreat to see!! Been an impressive year #spoty https://t.co/keKoobLqys
— Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) December 20, 2015
Here at Ladbrokes, however, we’d been pushing to get Leeds Rhinos star Kevin Sinfield to the top but his coming second should not be dismissed with second place a huge achievement for the man and rugby league as a whole…
So proud of Kevin Sinfield. A great ambassador for our club and our sport. pic.twitter.com/o3ZH8vzLnL — leedsrhinos (@leedsrhinos) December 20, 2015
Kevin’s success with Leeds this year – winning the League Leaders Shield, the Grand Final and the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup – meant he was there on merit and this was not lost on the sporting press…
Brilliant to see Sinfield get so many votes. Huge step forward for rugby league. #SPOTY @leedsrhinos
— Ian Ladyman (@Ian_Ladyman_DM) December 20, 2015
All Odds and Markets are correct as of the date of publishing.
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