Sky Sports Rigged/Problematic Premier League Player of the Year 2011 Poll

Luis Suarez, Public enemy #1. Anything which involves him seems to be surrounded with controversy, and generally it is of no fault of his own. Whether you're a Liverpool fan or a United fan, whether you're backing him over his racism charge or not, there is no doubt that Luis Suarez is a very talented player.

Sky Sports have been running a poll over the last few days to determine who the fans think has been the best player for 2011. The poll until the 22nd of December was heavily in Suarez's favour; at one point over 70% of the votes were for him. During the 22nd of December, his percentage started to drop and got to 40% where it stayed for most of the day, in the closing hours of the poll (10pm - 12pm) his percentage went to 37% and Nani was sitting in second place with just over 33% of the votes. At midnight 22nd December Suarez was leading the vote still with 37%. The voting was supposed to close at this point, but never did.

Then over the next 30+ minutes Nani closed on Suarez and then overtook him in the rankings. Now although this voting was after the supposed end of voting, it would have been fine if the poll had still been functioning properly because everyone could still vote on who they think was the best player of the year. But you could vote on any player, but not Suarez. Whenever you tried voting for Suarez you would get redirected to a blank page, yet all other votes were logged.

In the video I try to show how you can vote for other players but when you vote for Suarez you are sent to a blank screen and the vote is not registered. I used Google Chrome in Incognito mode, because the poll kept track of who had voted by cookies, using Incognito mode, every time I closed it, it automatically cleared the cookies so I could vote once more.


So Sky, what are you going to do to fix this rigging/problem with your poll? Will Suarez be duly honoured with 2011 player of the year? He should be.

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[mostwantd1]

Disgusting. Always have to cheat to win.

[andyme21]

Spread the word.. Spread the Truth.. i will show this to my millions of viewers !

[AdRedOne]

fair enough, i may have got that wrong but Suarez came from a different country and league and set the league alight.

it's not about going poxy over an internet poll but it's just about justice and fairness. why did it have to be rigged? just because he was involved in an incident with Evra? And funnily enough, it's Nani who has done nothing this year, who "won" it. I tell you, the english media are pro-Man United

[josevanreyes]

@AdRedOne Van Persie had the highest ever goal total in January so your point is mute. He scored 10 goals in January alone and ended up only 2 goals behind the golden boot winner despite playing for half a season.

Van Persie is by far the player of 2011

[josevanreyes]

lol so Liverpool fans cheat the poll and then they cry cheat in the end. Hypocracy at its finest.

Its sad when Liverpool fans are getting so worked up over a little poxy internet poll. Goes to show how far your club has fallen. Real small time stuff.

[obi1123]

Suarez with a grand total of 9 PL goals for the calender year, thats less than 1 goal every month

[ChrisMilton1234]

RVP should've won regardless.

[addz316]

@SmileyJ1992 to say he was "way better then suarez" means you know nothing about football and only watch highlights.

[GeorgeBrandrick1]

Nani is anything but average, his stats in terms of goals and assists are identical to Silva's. But agreed, neither Nani or Suarez should win. Definitely RVP.

[kbeeuts]

You're aware that voting in a new incognito window does nothing right? You have to be using a Proxy to mask your IP... this does nothing otherwise...

[AdRedOne]

@SmileyJ1992

in all honesty, Van Persie only started scoring towards the end of last season and this season. Suarez, coming from another league and country, settled in so quickly and mesmerised many, winning MVP in the Copa America in the process.

[SmileyJ1992]

I think it's a joke, that Robin van Persie is not voted as Player of The Year... His year have been way better than Luis Suarez's