IN THE 67-YEAR HISTORY of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year BOB NUDD is the one who got away. Or, to use another metaphor from his sport, the one they threw back. Thirty years ago, after winning his second world angling championship, Nudd received 100,000 votes in the competition to decide the year’s top sportsman, but the BBC ruled that he didn’t count as Angling Times had urged its readers to support him.
Just as the recently asked its readers to nominate the person of the year and then dropped the idea when too many went for JK Rowling, Nudd
