Keely Hodgkinson, David Beckham and Muhammad Ali feature in this BBC Sport montage of memorable speeches at the Sports Personality of the Year awards over the decades.
This week, Steve Finnan showed how quickly that certainty can disappear. The former Liverpool defender is caught in a long dispute with his brother and facing rising legal costs.
UEFA have defended their 'Stop killing children, stop killing civilians' banner displayed prior to the UEFA Super Cup - insisting that it was not a political message as they come under-fire.
BRIAN VINER: I'm Still Here tells the true story of the affluent, middle-class Paiva family whose comfortable life was ripped apart following that sound in all totalitarian countries: the knock on th…