Peter Canavan

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Just got this in a mail. feel free to partake.

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Well it's that time of year again. A time for festivities, a time for family and friends and a time to destroy another british award ceremony. Ladies and Gentlemen, every year the main TV station in England runs a competition for "Sports Personality of the Year".... every year, an Englishman wins.

In 1966, England won the World Cup... they still talk about it every time the team plays. Last weekend, England won the Rugby World Cup... we can't allow themto talk forever about it!

This year, a great Irish football star won his first All-Ireland title. His name is Peter Canavan, and he should be sports personality of the year.

You can help make this happen, wherever you are in the world. It takes a minute to vote. Just click on the link below, and fill in the form on the right side of the screen:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_2003

Name - Peter Canavan
Email address - you know that!
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Dempsey

I voted for Peter, he deserves recognition for his outstanding contribution to Gaelic football and got his well deserved all ireland medal this year.

But I reckon that Jonny Wilkinson will win though. For the obvious reasons....

Kone

done!

Yavvy

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo


Anyone but Peter Canavan...Look I know hes Irish and we "should " support him
But tyrone and Canavan are already annoying enough...they dont need this and neither does Ireland

Dempsey

Originally posted by Alany
Anyone but Peter Canavan...Look I know hes Irish and we "should " support him
But tyrone and Canavan are already annoying enough...they dont need this and neither does Ireland

Why anyone? If ya dont like him fair enough but I think he should be recognised. He's an inspirational player. Just as much so as any of the other candidates.

weemcd

im from armagh so no fukin way should that divin wee shoite get it, its a sneaky little ba$tard,


so in other words no

zAbbo

lads you`re missing the point
plus how do you vote online for Peter?

Kold

I voted for Jonny Wilkinson... because I feel he deserves it

D!ve^Bomb!

in all fairness.. gaa sucks ass.. and who the fuch is peter caravan:D

skipn_easy

Originally posted by bazH
plus how do you vote online for Peter?

Ah now in all fairness you managed to navigate as far as boards you should be able to figure it out.

Click on the link up in the original post and enter the name of the person you want to nominate in the box on the right under nomination.

Mossy Monk

Peter Canavan is an inspiration to all budding footballers. he gets my vote

Dr. Dre

Not another one of these :rolleyes:

Imposter

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
Peter Canavan is an inspiration to all budding footballers. he gets my vote

He's a cheating low-life who should have been banned from playing in the all-ireland.

cournioni

I voted for him, even though I hate Tyrone. He deserves recognition though.

demac

He's a thug !

Kold

Let me see, Britains population oh i don't know...lets say 70million (im probably nowhere near) Ireland's population about 4mill (Closer to the mark I'd say) Now England have just won the rugby World Cup for the first time and all this is due,not solely, but he made an impact, to the immense talent of a young man. Now let's take into account that most reasonable minded Irish people will ignore this utter crap. lemme see, that leaves you with about 50 people who MIGHT actually bother to vote? Lol i hope this makes it to texts because i'd love to see these fools waste more than their time.

DMC

He could do well, The Guardian and the BBC have picked up on this...

And BTW, TWO people from the North have won the award, Mary Peters in 1972 and Barry McGuigan in 1985. So its not unprecedented.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1098710,00.html

Gaelic footballer's fans try to topple Jonny Wilkinson by rigging sport poll

Vivek Chaudhary, chief sports correspondent
Wednesday December 3, 2003
The Guardian

England's World Cup hero, Jonny Wilkinson, is being challenged by a Gaelic footballer in an internet campaign designed to rig the public vote for the BBC's sports personality of the year award.

A circular email originating in Ireland is urging sports fans around the world to vote for Peter Canavan, captain of Tyrone, the All-Ireland Gaelic football champions.

The email's authors protest that the award is "is won every year by an Englishman".

Wilkinson is considered a shoo-in for the award and is believed to be well ahead in the voting. The winner will be announced in the Sports Review of the Year programme on December 14.

"In 1966, England won the World Cup... they still talk about it every time the team plays," the email says. "Last weekend, England won the rugby World Cup... we can't allow them to talk forever about it.

"This year, a great Irish football star won his first all-Ireland title. His name is Peter Canavan and he should be sports personality of the year."

The BBC last night revealed that this was the second attempt it had uncovered to rig the result of this year's poll by multiple voting. A campaign in Australia is attempting to ensure that Tim Henman wins the award.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "Systems are in place to ensure that rigging cannot occurr. When the voting closes we look at all the votes and we have systems in place to ensure that they have not been rigged. Voting by phone, text or computer is quite common now and there are methods in place to ensure that voting is fair."

The BBC spokeswoman added, however, that large numbers of votes for Canavan could actually be the result of genuine opinion that he deserves to be sports personality of the year.

She said: "It may be that a lot of people are genuinely voting for him. We will have to wait and see."

Earlier this year, the BBC World Service had to restart a poll for the world's favourite song, held to mark its 70th anniversary, after a massive vote for the Irish rebel song, A Nation Once Again by the Wolfe Tones.

The ballad beat off competition from Elton John and John Lennon after a campaign orchestrated by fans of the Wolfe Tones, who are famous for republican protest songs.

shinobi

Done...

This might get more attention if the subject was renamed
Peter Canavan sports personality of the year...
God knows we'll be hearing enough about jonny wilkinson
for the next 40 yrs (like when they won the world cup in 1966).:mad: