Phil Taylor is 66/1 to win the sports personality of the year.

Ladbrokes (offical sponsers to the world championships) have been running a vote Phil campaign which has drummed up a lot of interest www.ladbrokes.com/votephil/intro.html. People voted in there 1000's to get him into the top 10 and will vote again when the live voting starts during the show on sunday evening.

There are 1000's of people voting from the darting community , as this is the first time EVER a darts player has been nomniated. This isn't just a handful of people, if only a 10th of every single darts player in the UK voted, he would win by a country mile !!! Phil Taylor is the best player ever - winning a staggering 13 world championships.

If you look at the other contestents in the list there isnt anybody to rival this kind of domination in there own discipline. Normally theres a big name like Beckam or Flintoff in there but this year there isnt which is another great advantage for this bet.

Other contestants are:
darren clarke
zara phillips
joe calzaghe
andy murray
monty panesar
beth tweddle
ricky hatton
nicole cooke
jenson button