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Samson

Time for some divilment:

(Some of you probably got this already. It worked to get 'A Nation Once
Again' elected as most popular English song, so who knows? For those of you
not up with GAA, Peter Canavan is with Armagh and thus technically a UK
sports personality as well as an Irish one.)

Here we go again....

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 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.

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!

Use all the email addresses you have, (each address can vote only once), and
pass this on to everyone you know as soon as possible!

Jaffus

GO HERE CAST VOTE >>>>>PETER CANAVAN<<<<<<


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_2003/3222842.stm

Yavvy

already posted jaffus...and To be honest I wouldnt vote for him to save my life

Jaffus

Im not even a fan of GAA mate and I am no way one of Beckham or those twats...But I do want to see the faces of those Gits if he Wins.

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.

Big al

do you honestly think he would accept the award?

alleepally

For the loving honour of God. This sort of "divilment" has passed its sell by date. It is nothing more than a diversion for hordes of office workers who think being patriotic is to "get one up on the English" by entering online polls.

The original email sent out is laughable and obviously written by someone lacking in intelligence.

I'm no fan of how the British establishment conduct their affairs in Ireland but I harbour no ill will towards the ordinary British citizen (ehm. apart from hardline unionists and Sun readers and people who call the Republic "EIRE" and.. and... ;-) ).

Wouldn't every Irishman and woman in this country stand up and be proud until the day he or she died if our team won a world cup of any sport? Why then should a British/English man or woman be denied the joy of celebrating their nations sporting prowess.

This campaign smacks of Irish begrudgery and it really is pathetic.

I say let the BBC have their competition for BRITISH sportsmen/women. Surely an Irishman in the occupied territories would want nothing to do with this competition anyway.

Also, it is factually incorrect that an English person wins the award every year. A brief look at the list of previous winners shows non-English people winning.

Good night.

alleepally

I read the Guardian today and the article is featured on Page 3. It really doesn't give a good impression of Ireland and whoever started this campaign ought to cop themselves on.

Woden

its still fun though and as someone said imagine there faces

alleepally

Why should we care what the English think about us.

If people want to support a good campaign online look at

www.maketradefair.com

this is just one of dozens where the online time would be better spent to change peoples lives for the better.

Yavvy

Well said sir/madam, I am in total agreement !

seano

cournioni

Originally posted by alleepally
Why should we care what the English think about us.

If people want to support a good campaign online look at

www.maketradefair.com

this is just one of dozens where the online time would be better spent to change peoples lives for the better.

Either that or just do the two of them.

Come on, Gaelic games is hardly an easy sport. It would be good if the people from around the world could see it. Canavan deserves it, and I'm a Cavan fan.

Yavvy

muppet

cournioni

Originally posted by Alany
muppet

Was that aimed at me?

kaimera

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Was that aimed at me?

I'd say so.

Alany has been on a bit of a troll recently....I remember Alany

cournioni

Well all I have to say is that Canavan deserves everyones votes. Whether he likes it or not.