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After Rihanna takes Hussein away off into the wings...Mo Farah gives his thoughts on his future road career:

"Since finishing the track, I've just been trying to get my body used to longer distance, covering more distance, so it's going alright, I'm enjoying it - but it's no walk in the park.

"I thought originally I was just a track runner and to get on the road...

Uh-oh...now Mo's microphone has fallen off!

Presenter Gabby Logan decides to bid Mo farewell:

"Thanks everyone and sorry I can't be there tonight and wish all the nominees the best of luck" Mo says.

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Libby Dawes
BBC Sport at the Echo Arena

That's a rather shiny table you have here...

Amongst the SPOTY trophies, we see the Tour de France yellow jersey, the Giro de Italia jersey, the Under 17's and Under 20's World Cup trophies and the Women's FA Cup.

Why do I feel the urge to raise them above my head and cheer really loud...?

(I won't. I have a large looking security guard with his eye on me here...)

Luke Reddy
BBC Sport boxing reporter

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Wembley mayhem, the Las Vegas ‘Money Fight’, and a Haye-Bellew soap opera. It’s safe to say 2017 was not lacking in talking points.

Anthony Joshua dropped Wladimir Klitschko, only to then be dropped himself, before administering the concluding knockout to unify the WBA and IBF heavyweight titles in front of a record 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.

The purity of the bout contrasted with the somewhat indulgent – if entertaining – nature of Floyd Mayweather’s win over UFC star Conor McGregor in the Nevada desert. ‘Money Man’ talked of earning $300m, that’s more than $10m a minute.

Still, we were entertained by it all, were we not? Just as we were by David Haye’s rivalry with Tony Bellew. The naysayers said Bellew couldn’t operate at heavyweight but they didn’t bank on a cruel Haye Achilles injury which allowed the Liverpudlian to take control of their fight.

Boxing can be brutal. That’s the end of the stick Anthony Crolla and Luke Campbell tasted in defeats by Jorge Linares.

And what about some redemption? It took four attempts but after being conquered by Carl Froch twice and later Badou Jack, George Groves became a world champion with a gutsy stoppage of Fedor Chudinov to win the WBA super-middleweight belt.

It’s been some year and we haven’t even mentioned Tyson Fury. Expect him to add to the melting pot in 2018.

Anthony Joshua went back to his roots for his SPOTY film, which is on now, and returned to Finchley and District Amateur Boxing Club in Barnet.

If you're interested, it's rated 4.7/5 on Google Reviews.

It's time for another 'guess the voice' on the next film.

We've drafted in a local for this one, seeing as we're talking about Liverbird Bianca Walkden.

If you're tuning into BBC One or watching online at the top of this page, have a guess.

After her heroics at the Women's Cricket World Cup, what goes through Anya Shrubsole's mind when the team is desperate for a wicket?

"You just want to be the one to make a difference. I came on for that spell and the first two balls went for four and I thought I was messing it up, so you just want to be the one to get that wicket and start the ball rolling for everyone and thankfully that happened."

After Anya posted a picture on Twitter that was took at Lord's in 2001, what does she think her nine-year-old self would make of it all?

"Hopefully she would think it was pretty cool" she says. "It's a really nice story and my dad is on the front row tonight so he was pretty happy with that tweet!

"It's symbolic of what we're trying to create and hopefully there were some young girls and boys who saw the final and thought they would like to play."

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I think Mo Farah's son, Hussein, has just won 2017.

He is not going to let his dad have a moment to himself.

Golden.

Mo Farah's film is a real look back on his wonderful career in athletics – set to Johnny Cash's version of the song 'In My Life'.

Once again, there's some fantastic archive footage in here of a young Mo in his school days. And plenty of Mo-Botting.

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Phil Foden receives his award and Gary asks him what it was like to be named player of the tournament at the U17 World Cup:

"It meant everything to me but I want to thank my team-mates because without them, it wouldn't have been possible.

"I feel very lucky to be part of a great team - I want to thank all the players, staff and my mum and dad for making this possible."

And, as you can see above, the Manchester City player was delighted to meet a famous Manchester City fan earlier.

Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer

This was the year track and field waved farewell to its greatest superstar, Usain Bolt. After his three golden Olympic Games it was not the valediction the world expected, beaten by the twice-banned Justin Gatlin in the 100m at the World Championships in London and pulling up injured on the last leg of the sprint relay final.

That 4x100m showdown was nonetheless the peak moment for the capacity home crowd, Britain's quartet of CJ Ujah, Adam Gemili, Danny Talbot and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake storming to a sensational gold, just after their female compatriots had taken a brilliant silver. There was silver too for the GB women's 4x400m team and bronze for the men.

There were upsets everywhere you looked at the London Stadium: double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson out of the medals in the 100m, world record holder Kendra Harrison off the podium in the sprint hurdles, Olympic 400m hurdles champion Kerron Clement overshadowed by charismatic young Norwegian Karsten Warholm.

Mo Farah took one last track gold in the 10,000m before ending with 5,000m silver a week later. The weather was poor, the crowds huge, the Russian team absent.

The question now is what comes next for this great sport: no Bolt, Farah gone to the roads, the struggle against doping ongoing, the complete rebuild the sport's governance and image required only partially under way.

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Congratulations to Phil Foden, aka 'The Stockport Iniesta'

The 17-year-old helped England win the Under-17 World Cup and took the Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.

Foden also made his senior debut for Manchester City and became the youngest Englishman to start a Champions League match.

He was on a final shortlist of three for the BBC award, with gymnast Ellie Downie and Para-skier Millie Knight.

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Did you like that Young Lions song?

It's a specially re-versioned track for #SPOTY2017 called "Young Lions / Wo Wo Wo" by Krept & Konan.

You can watch it again below.

You wait 51 years for an appearance in the final of a global tournament...

England's Under-20s and Under-17s both won their respective World Cups in a sensational year for the country's youth sides.

The Under-19s won the Euros too.

The U17s lost in their European Championship final to Spain on penalties after conceding a 96th-minute equaliser. But what revenge they enjoyed in the World Cup in India, coming from 2-0 down to thrash Spain 5-2 with Phil Foden - man of the match and player of the tournament - scoring twice.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin got the winner as the U20s beat Venezuela in their final in South Korea in June.

Now we'll have to wait and see if the senior team can rise to the occasion in Russia next summer...

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says the desire for more titles is still there:

"It's been a life-long dream. I've been racing for 25 years and it's something me and my family have dreamed of for many, many years. We've now had the fourth title and we just want to keep going."

On his rivalry this season with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel:

"It's definitely been one of the most exciting seasons of my career, I think, particualry, there's over 1,500 people in my team so to build those two cars and fight against Ferrari - which is obviously a very successful and very historic team - so for every single individual in the team to step up their game and compete with them - even including myself - was an achievement for us all and there's still that fire for next year."

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It stretched to 69 games but Celtic's 19-month unbeaten domestic run is finally at an end after their defeat at Hearts earlier today.

Brendan Rodgers' side had maintained an unprecedented period of dominance in Scotland, having not lost a domestic match since May 2016.

In taking the 2016-17 Scottish Premiership title, they won 34 out of 38 games, accumulated 106 points and finished 30 points clear of second-placed Aberdeen - all of them records.

And, of course, they are the holders of the Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup.

They rank third in Uefa's all-time domestic unbeaten record chart, with only Gibraltar's Lincoln Red Imps (88) and Romania's Steaua Bucharest (104) ahead of their total.

Libby Dawes
BBC Sport at the Echo Arena

You know those big sweeping camera shots of this magnificent arena we see during the show?

THIS is how they do it. The massive jib extends to well over ten metres and you need to duck every time you walk under it. I have avoided a clonk on the head so far but the evening is still young...