The FSF Writers Awards 2012: fancy voting for Untold? « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News. Supporting the Lord Wenger; coach of the decade

The FSF’s Football Writers Awards 2012 reward the best football coverage by professional and amateur writers across a number of categories – two of which in particular interest us.

You can vote for Untold (or another site, if you are here by mistake) by email.  Details are below, but first here are the relevant categories

The FSF Fans’ Website of the Year award – An award recognising the work of independent contributors to the online football world rather than media giants or official club websites. Whether a co-operative of writers or a one man band, ground-hoppers to club bloggers, serious or side-splitting, who has the content that keeps you clicking back time and again?

The FSF Fans’ Football Blogger of the Year award – For the very best ‘amateur’ writers. We realise that the distinction between ‘proper’ journalists and bloggers is getting ever more blurred, but if they’re producing content for an independent website (rather than for mainstream media) then they’re eligible. If you’re not sure which category your favourite falls into then nominate them for both and let us decide!

You can go for a maximum three nominations per category, so if contemplating a web site, in addition to Untold you might care to think about the Arsenal History Society blog.  It doesn’t have the razzmatazz of the latest news, but it has been instrumental in uncovering a lot of new stuff – including sorting out exactly how our history over the move to Highbury and the promotion of 1919 was re-written by the neighbours.  www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk

Here are some of the regulars on Untold…

Anne – writing on finances and the media, who has uncovered the whole world of football as a centre of money laundering, the strange antics of one particular man at the Sun, and is about to examine the doings of the AST.

Walter Broeckx – running the referees’ panel on Untold, and producing all the Untold facts and figures on referees.  Walter has also lifted up the stone that is PGMOL and examined just what lies beneath.

Phil Gregory – was just about the first writer to take on a regular column, writing the weekly previews, and contributing occasional articles on finance.  Phil also wrote the Untold submission to the House of Commons Enquiry into Football

Dogface – produces a column unlike any other in football with his preview of league matches from the perspective of ref bias and the gambling markets.  Dogface also produces some of the most extraordinary graphics in football.

Arun – a recent recruit, working on the statistical preview covering the leading clubs in the league each week

Tony Attwood – does some of the supposedly funny stuff, and picks up the bits and pieces no one else wants to handle (and then dutifully washes his hands afterwards).  From the Rangers crisis to running our own Awards, from Arry Watch to the campaign to rename Bolton as Notlob.

To vote, email awards@fsf.org.uk with your nominations before midnight on Friday 18th May (maximum three nominations per category).

And of course, whether you vote for us or not, thanks very much for reading.