Bobby Moore has been voted the Greatest British Sports Personality of All Time in a poll conducted by Radio Times!

The long awaited and long overdue title is his as the result of a poll to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award is announced.

The Radio Times,has provided radio and television listings since 1923 – the same year West Ham reached the first Wembley FA Cup final and  asked its readers to vote for their favourite winner of the BBC’s annual sporting celebration.

And Mooro held off the challenge of double Olympic and Wimbledon champion tennis player Sir Andy Murray and five-times Formula 1 motor racing world champion Lewis Hamilton, who were voted into second and third places.ly.

David Beckham (eighth), Paul Gascoigne (tenth) and Ryan Giggs (18th) were the other footballers voted into the top 20 by more than 11,000 Radio Times readers.

Bob’s daughter Roberta, said: “It makes me incredibly proud to think that after all this time he is held in such high esteem. It really is very touching and is of huge comfort to all our family.

“He was extremely proud and the trophy was in pride of place to reflect that. It was a big accolade for him. So he would be so honoured, so thrilled and so humbled by this.

“Dad was a gentleman and a gentle man. He was quite shy, but he conducted himself always, I believe, with great dignity, and I think people remember that about him.

“In Dad’s era, it was still the people’s game. Fans felt connected to it and warmed by it. It was a golden era and he embodied all that was good about it.”

ClaretandHugh says: Thrilled and delighted, proud and excited are the emotions of the day. Bob was in a class of his own and it’s totally right that, despite the politicians refusing to hand him the knighthood he so deserved, the people’s hero have spoken and this title is just so correct. We’ve said it many times but the only higher honour we could hand to Mooro is that he was the greatest person of all time because class; quality and humility were simply the mark of the man. He would have downplayed this as he did with most of the honours and tributes that came his way but make no mistake Mooro really was the greatest. There will never be another like him. He belongs to the nation of course but chiefly he belongs to us – the Hammers family and today everyone of us will feel pride and delight that the great man has finally been honoured in really the only way that matters – by the people and with the greatest title possible.