The Soccerlens Vote: Who Should Win The 08 Competition?
every vote counts...
I’ve enjoyed reading the submissions for the writing competition this year and I hope you have as well.
Of the 33 entries that were accepted for publication (we turned down 2 or 3), almost every writer has the ability to have a successful career as a football writer if they so choose – so you can understand that it is an impossible job to select the finalists, let alone the standout winner.
It would be great to have everyone come onboard and write on Soccerlens again in the future, and I’ll be contact everyone personally to discuss this possibility.
I’ve narrowed the list down to 3 of the most outstanding contributions, and now it’s up to the readers at Soccerlens to pick the overall winner.
The Top 3 are listed below – have a look, read their articles again if you need to and pick your winner in the poll listed at the end.
In case you wish to nominate someone other than these 3 as the winner, you can pick the ‘Other’ option and write the author’s name (the full list of submissions is here).
If there’s a tie, I’ll cast the deciding vote. The voting will close on Sunday night and the winner will be announced on Monday morning (GMT).
May the best writer win.
To the writers who didn’t make the final shortlist – it’s not because you’re not a good writer, you are, it has more to do with topic selection and knowing what works at this level.
The 08 Finalists:
Will Roche – An American Werewolf (wishes he were) in London
Fredorrarci – A Modest Proposal for the Resolution of Club versus Country
Martin Banks – Football writing competition? Easy! Easy! Easy! Easy!
Vote Off:
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If you can’t see the poll above, you can go the poll page directly and vote here
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Thank you for voting.
> so you can understand that it is an impossible job to select the finalists, let alone the standout winner
Looks like you need video help.
harasuke – I already replied to your comment but it got lost along with all others, you really need to get your conspiracy theories sorted out somewhere else
the reason for the vote is that in my view, I can't separate the 3 finalists, they would all be worthy winners. The vote tells me which one of these everyone likes the most.
this is strange, comments seem to have disappeared on this post. It could be the new comment system we're trying out, i'll do some tests….
Update: definitely seems to be the new comment system doing a glitch. the comments are still in the system, they're just not showing up.
I was the first one. Where did my comment go??
het, ahmed i believe its unfair. when u choose 3 finalists, it is based on ur own judgment (hence with ur own subjectivity n bias), n then the public choose. i think u should either a.) choose the winner urself or b.) letting the public choose from all the accepted articles…i already said that but my post got erased…wonder..
conspiracy, me?
i was just pointing out what i thought… i mean , im not doubting u or anything…i was implying that what you yourself look into for in a good article another person will not look at the same things…
bye.
Hi there. My personal vote is the american werewolf one … i have serious doubts on whether the other 2 are really competition-worth…i know these are harsh words,but look at it like subjective n,i hope, constructive criticism rather than a toilet-rant. ACCORDING TO ME( shall I say it again?) the other 2 aricles are rather distorted and do not have a flow to them…n relie more on a start-stop disjointed extreme humour rather than a really fleshy article about football.
harasuke – you’re absolutely right.