TAYLOR SECOND? IT'S A FARCE, SAYS POULTER AFTER BBC VOTE

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By IAN CHADBAND
Darts man Phil Taylor’s joyous night at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards ceremony delighted at least 72,000 British sports fans – but apparently not an extremely irritated Ian Poulter.
Ryder Cup man Poulter said it was a 'farce' that Taylor came second.
While 50-year-old grandad Taylor was proving the star of the night in Birmingham, with the LG Arena crowd lapping up his obvious unbridled enjoyment of the whole occasion and telephone voters flocking to vote him as runner-up to winner, jockey A P McCoy, golf star Poulter was evidently in the camp who simply will never accept darts as a sport.
Poulter, who could not believe that Taylor (72,095 votes) attracted thousands more votes than his Ryder Cup colleagues, Lee Westwood (fourth with 58,640) and Graeme McDowell (fifth with 52,108), tweeted his thoughts that the voting was a farce.
“Darts comes second in the BBC Spoty voting? Get a grip!” said Poulter on Twitter. “BBC Spoty farce. Sorry, how could Graeme McDowell or Lee Westwood not win. GMac wins a major. Westy world no 1. That's *****”
Poulter also felt McCoy shouldn’t have won the award ahead of the two golfers, adding: “It's called sports personality of the year not years. A P is a legend for sure but he should have won it a couple of years ago.”
Evidently, Poulter was not in tune with the public feeling, though, as McCoy won by a landslide and the massive vote for Taylor demonstrated that many perhaps still believe that golf is merely a good walk spoiled and no more of an athletic challenge than tungsten tickling.