Once again, Rory McIlroy’s biggest competition for national honor is on a race track. But if history indeed repeats itself, Pierce Morgan warns the committee that the BBC SPOTY award will lose credibility.

“If @McIlroyRory doesn’t win this,” Morgan wrote on X, “it will render SPOTY utterly pointless and irrelevant. He’s had an unbelievable year, transporting him into the ranks of true sporting greats.”

Typical Morgan, as emphatic as he could be. His endorsement of McIlroy does not come without a challenge to the British public. If SPOTY is honoring the year’s defining sports figure, then McIlroy should be a definite conclusion, he argues. Yet, the needle can turn towards anyone.

The list of nominees is arguably the strongest in recent years. Cementing that thesis is, of course, McI

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