Great news for Graeme Murty - he's BBC South's Sports Personality of the Year.

Great news for us too, because it means the weeks we've spent hectoring Reading fans to pick up the phone and vote have paid off.

The people counting the votes (it was a phone vote between Graeme, yachtswoman Dee Caffari and mountaineer Rhys Jones) kept telling us the vote was extremely close, and at one point announced to us that Graeme was in second place.

So we've spent almost every news and sport bulletin not-so-subtly reminding people which number they need to call in order to vote for Graeme, and tonight he picked up the award.

But no matter how big a personality Graeme Murty is, he's not big enough for Alan Ball to be able to say his name properly.

Watching the live webcast of the event on the net (it wasn't on TV so that was a bit of a triumph for the BBC's web services, even if the connection was sometimes dodgy), Ball opened the envelope and announced "Graeme Murphy" as the winner.

Let's hope Graeme can see the funny side, especially given the inevitable stick he'll get for that in training. But then he's a very funny man when he comes in to do an hour's radio on our breakfast show most Mondays. I'll be making sure I'm up bright and early to listen out for him tomorrow!

Good luck to David, by the way, who will be spending this week frantically working away at books full of bus terminology in preparation for his exam on Friday. And when he's not doing that, he'll be providing us with a pictorial tale involving OJ, a telephone and a boar's head. It's worth the wait.