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Huh. Had no idea this was allowed [Caught Offside]
It’s the Daily Mail. Their reporting cannot be faulted. Sorry, Chelsea [Daily Mail]
You should all move to Toronto. Their mayor is fighting to make sure you can drink while the World Cup is on [Dirty Tackle]
Finally:
Footballers design their own rape masks. Or something. I’m guessing that’s not really it, since Kickette is showing these photos [Kickette]
Well, maybe this means he won’t be able to breed and send forth more of his line into the world.
BTW, that junk about the poll is, um, pretty damned ridiculous. How on Dog’s Green Earth did anyone ever take it as Srs Bzness? Jebus, some people need to lighten up.
In other news, I bombed an exam today. Hooray!
“Footballers design their own rape masks. Or something. I’m guessing that’s not really it, since Jonny Evans isn’t featured.”
Never gets old.
At first I felt partially responsible, for admitting that I voted multiple times. Which I honestly didn’t know you couldn’t do. But then I read more and several other people mentioned voting for UF or another blog multiple times.
Shit was whack.
I was reading the other comments, is that really the guy from FSC or was NYK just guessing/joking?
You guys do good work here. I hope no worthwhile bridges were burned.
Is it just me or has UF been removed from that poll? Not as an option to vote for, but in the results. Weird
Yes, we have been dq’ed, which admittedly was one of our goals.
Isn’t the fact that you guys got overtaken by Dirty Tackle proof that you weren’t cheating? Who cheats only so far as to get second?
I don’t care what the grumpy commenters over at EPL T say, UF is the best. Love you guys.
“I won’t stand for these people making a mockery of this competition. The internet demands integrity.”
The discussion should have ended with LE’s comment.
@Steve: It’s Serious Business.
Coming tomorrow to EPLTalk: EXCLUSIVE! Unprofessional Foul Disqualified, EXCLUSIVELY ON EPLTALK!
This is a really stupid question but is that actually Steve Cohen? Cause that would be outstanding. God what a pompous bunch of s**theads those commenters (and writers outside TG) are. Jumping the first day is a sign of cheating? How about it’s a sign that IT WAS THE FIRST F**KING DAY? The Liberal Democrats obviously cheated as they picked up all those seats in one day. It’s CLEAR EVIDENCE! Dollars to donuts some of the people bitching are the same ones who called Ned crazy for suggesting impropriety in the Womens Team blog winning that one award last year.
I know I only voted once, but I doubt anyone was exactly writing a macro to do it or anything. Personally I figured DT would run away with it. I wouldn’t feel too bad about it guys, aside from the shame of “losing” to a rumor blog like Caught Offside.
Also, if someone actually DID use mad crazy hax on the poll, bravo, and please use it on the insanely stupid Castrol polls that Soccernet runs.
Ha! So funny that another site is embedding the poll and yet remain in the competition. Poor Gaffer. Running a Blog Awards gig is fraught with dilemmas
And we kinda figured DT would win too. Their traffic is insane! That said, we had some fun and improved on our 4th-placed finish last year in the US Soccer awards. Good times
CHEATARZ!
The circular logic at work in the EPL Talk thread is simply amazing.
FWIW, I voted several times for both UF and DT. But mostly for UF. All one has to do to vote more than once is refresh the page. I’m sure Google will be looking to hire me as a counterprogrammer now that I’ve fathomed that incredible mystery.
Hi Guys,
Really don’t know why you guys got taken off the poll. We even thumbed up UF when we put up the poll on our site. For the record we are not just a ‘rumour’ blog and have expanded a great deal.
Anyway keep it up guys we really are big fans of yours and really don’t know why you were taken off the poll.
CaughtOffside Team
No worries. We achieved our goal.
^^ Sorry, I just get irritated with ridiculous rumors but yeah you guys definitely do more than that. As opposed to say the Daily Mail or lord help us all, tribalfootball. I kind of assumed the poll thing was on their end not yours after I got really confused that the result disappeared but you gave the endorsement!
@CaughtOffside
No harm done, I assure you. After the cheating accusations flew, we lost the heart for it. Ergo, we decided to have some fun
We’ll see if you here at UF are so flippant about things the next time you need an EXCLUSIVE screenshot of FSC in HD.
@Ryan
I know. I’ll feel like the worst blogger ever.
They’ll all be shocked when Andy Gray is announced as the winner.
UF was winning because UF was cheating. UF was cheating because UF was winning.
I think we should bring this up at the next tautology club meeting:
http://xkcd.com/703/