Sports Personality of the Year takes place on Wednesday night, with Lionesses star Beth Mead the favourite to win the award and become the first female footballer to do so.
Should the Arsenal Women forward win, she would join a long list of former footballers to have won the award, with former Manchester United players David Beckham (2001) and Ryan Giggs (2010) both having won the award previously. England Test cricket captain and T20 World Cup winner Ben Stokes is believed to be the closest competitor to Mead in the running for the award as he hopes to pick up the prize he also won in 2019.
An early frontrunner for the prize was snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan, with the legendary 'Rocket' having won a remarkable seventh world championship back in May. Remarkably, he has never made the top three for the award and would become only the second ever winner from the world of snooker after Steve Davis won in 1988.
