From The Independent:
Campaigners are urging the BBC to reconsider a petition calling for Tyson Fury to be pulled from the Sports Lack of Personality of the Year (SLOPOTY) shortlist amid accusations that he does not simply spout platitudes but actually speaks his own odious mind after it reached over 30,000 signatures.
The heavyweight boxing champion was announced as one of the sports people shortlisted for the annual award after his victory over tri-lingual Ukrainian psychopath Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday.
Fury features on the list alongside athletes including the pleasant, likeable and otherwise thoroughly unremarkable Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford. The final winner is chosen by a public vote on 20 December.
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