Best Premier League Blogs, Websites and Books Named in EPL Awards
We eat, live and breathe online coverage of the Premier League throughout the season, so it’s no surprise that the 2011 EPL Awards for the best blogs, online newspapers, tweeters and online games were some of the most competitive categories in the award competition.
Congratulations to Dirty Tackle, the irreverent blog for winning both the Best EPL Blogger Reader’s Choice award as well as Funniest Football Site category (Reader’s Choice). Also hats off need to go to ArseBlog for winning the Best EPL Twitterer Reader’s Choice Award by just one vote after defeating Rio Ferdinand. On top of that, ArseBlog won awards for Best EPL Club Blog (Reader’s Choice and Editor’s Choice).
These are just a few of the categories. Click below to find out who was named Best EPL Blog, Best EPL Club Forum, Best EPL Coverage Online and much more.
The third annual EPL Awards recognized the best of the 2010-11 Premier League season. Organized by EPL Talk, the voting began Monday, May 2 and closed May 22, 2011. Trusted since 2005, EPL Talk is the most popular Premier League blog in the world.
The final results are as follows:
Best EPL Blog
- Caught Offside (32%),
- Dirty Tackle (23%) and
- The Swiss Ramble (13%).
Editor’s Choice:
- The Swiss Ramble
Best EPL Blogger
- Brooks Peck, Dirty Tackle (41%),
- ArseBlogger, ArseBlog (24%) and
- Kieron O’Connor, The Swiss Ramble (16%)
Editor’s Choice:
- Kieron O’Connor, The Swiss Ramble
Best EPL Club Blog
- ArseBlog (42%),
- Republik of Mancunia (26%) and
- The Empire of the Kop (18%).
Editor’s Choice:
- ArseBlog
Best Football Fashion Blog
- Umbro (30%),
- True Colours Football Kits (22%) and
- The Beautiful Gear (15%).
Editor’s Choice:
- True Colours Football Kits
Best EPL Club Forum
- Grand Old Team, Everton (36%),
- Red and White Kop, Liverpool (24%) and
- CFCnet, Chelsea (10%).
Editor’s Choice:
- Grand Old Team, Everton
Best Online EPL Coverage
- The Guardian (77%),
- Daily Mail (7%) and
- The Mirror (4%).
Editor’s Choice:
- The Guardian
Best EPL Writer
- David Conn (18%),
- Kevin McCarra (14%) and
- Henry Winter (11%).
Editor’s Choice:
- David Conn
Funniest Football Site
- Dirty Tackle (46%),
- The Football Ramble (39%) and
- Studs Up (7%).
Editor’s Choice:
- Studs Up
Best Online Football Game
- I AM PLAYR (58%),
- Fantasy Premier League (17%) and
- Picklive Football (17%).
Editor’s Choice:
- Fantasy Premier League
Best EPL iPhone App
- EPL Addicts (25%),
- Sky Sports Score Center (20%) and
- Football Manager 2011 (12%).
Editor’s Choice:
- FoxSoccer
Best EPL Twitterer
- ArseBlogger (26%),
- Rio Ferdinand (26%) and
- Sid Lowe (18%).
Editor’s Choice:
- Rio Ferdinand
Best New Football Book
- Pay As You Play, by Paul Tomkins (64%),
- Football – Bloody Hell, by Patrick Barclay (11%), and
- Promised Land, by Anthony Clavane (9%)
Editor’s Choice:
- Pay As You Play, by Paul Tomkins
Congratulations to all of the winners! To find out who the winners are in the other categories, visit epltalk.com/2011-epl-awards
10 Responses to Best Premier League Blogs, Websites and Books Named in EPL Awards
CaughtOffside? Don’t make me laugh!
and rio as 2nd best twitterer? That guy continues to show the world how much of a moron he is with every annoying and often juvenile tweet he makes.
bb, so who did you vote for mate?
Cheers,
The Gaffer
I love Arse Blog. Great pick!
Caughtoffside? Really?
I would never consider the Swiss Ramble to be an EPL site. He only posts weekly and out of his last 7 posts only 1 was on a Premier League team.
Just about says it all for the rest of the selections I suspect.
Tony, the same could be said for many other blogs nominated such as Zonal Marking. Not all of the blogs focus just on the Premier League. I get your point, but Swiss Ramble’s piece today about Liverpool is a good example of why they’re deserving of the award.
Cheers,
The Gaffer
I agree on Zonal Marking – so they should not have been included either
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If it’s really EPL sites then neither of those should be in. The fact that Swiss did a piece on Liverpool doesn’t make them an EPL site anymore than this is a Championship site because we did 1 or 2 stories on the championship.
BTW: I totally agree’d on Football Weekly, definitely the best podcast.
But you could argue that Football Weekly isn’t an EPL Podcast. Ten minutes of Premier League followed up updates about Spain, the arduous Serie A segment and other leagues around the world. Nevertheless, they’re definitely well deserving of their achievements.
Cheers,
The Gaffer
CaughtOffside are worthy winners, that said Dirty Tackle would equally be worthy winners. Swiss Ramble is a good site also
David Conn is an abomination. He hates money. Dude belongs in a 19th century utopian commune. What a Luddite.