
Originally Posted by
James3T
A few years ago in the UK, the sports personality of the year award which is voted on was heading towards a very unexpected result. Justin Fashanu, a soccer player, was leading the poll by a huge margin despite him having nothing like the profile of most people who win it. The reason was that the Gay Times had asked all it's readers to vote for him (Justin is gay) not expecting a huge number of people to jump onto the band wagon as they all wanted a surprise result.
The BBC, not wanting to to see the result it didn't want to see, disqualified him.
As for Justin, er, send him to North Korea with a one way ticket!
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