Soccerlens Awards

2010 Editors’ Picks & SLA Review

The 2010 Soccerlens Awards winners were announced yesterday, as decided exclusively through fan voting. There were some surprises, some expected wins but overall, we’re happy to see that the best and most popular websites and writers were crowned the best of 2010. Today we’ll look at the Editors’ Picks for 2010, which is essentially who…

The 2010 Soccerlens Awards Winners

The wait is finally over. After 3 weeks of furious campaigning, a record 37k+ votes and an unbelievably positive response from fans, voters and nominees, the 2010 Soccerlens Awards winners have been decided. As is customary, the winners are decided exclusively through fan voting, although the SLA team picks the voting shortlist from nominations made…

Castrol Football Rankings – What They Said

We interviewed the 2010 Soccerlens Awards nominees this week to ask them about who they would vote for, the secrets to their success, who they would pick as the best footballer in the world and what they thought about the Castrol Football Rankings. We’ve collected their answers to the last question below: “Have you seen…

The Best Of 2010

The 2010 Soccerlens Awards are now open for voting! Get in and vote for your favourite sites and writers NOW! From nearly a thousand nominations, we have shortlisted 86 candidates across 10 different award categories. Several past winners and runners up feature again this year, a testament to their consistency and commitment to excellence. We…

Update: nominations are now closed

Just a quick update on nominations / shortlists – we extended the nominations deadline by another week, and it closed last night on Sunday. We’ll be putting up the shortlists later today on the awards pages and will also announce the start of voting here on the blog. To compensate for the extra week, voting…

Castrol Football Rankings

The Castrol Rankings answer a fundamental footballing question – who is the best footballer of the last 12 months? The Rankings uses the objective measures of statistics to provide this answer, and as objective analysis goes, it tends to provoke a sharp reaction amongst football fans. Everyone has their favourites, people are quick to judge…

Soccerlens Awards 2010

The 2010 Soccerlens Awards are now open for business! If you’re new here, you might be wondering – what the hell are the ‘Soccerlens Awards’ and why should I care? Simply put, the Soccerlens Awards – or the SLAs – are the most prestigious awards any football website or football writer on the Internet can…

The 2010 Soccerlens Awards

The Soccerlens Awards are all about celebrating the very best in football from around the web from those breaking the news to those making it. A year is a long time for the web and so we make sure we spend time fine tuning the SLAs to reflect the changes and trends we see out…

Soccerlens nominated for EPL Awards

Soccerlens turned four yesterday and what came to us as a birthday present was the nomination of the site in five categories for the 2009/2010 EPL Awards. The categories are: Best EPL Blog Best EPL Blogger Best EPL Podcast Best EPL Podcast Presenter (Adrian Clarke) Best EPL Podcast Pundit (Iain Spragg) Voting opens today (April…

The Football Boots Awards

Our friends over at Footy Boots are holding their annual football boots awards – and if you’re keen on football shoes then take out a few minutes, vote on the boots and have a look around the site, it’s THE website to go to for all football boots. What’s also interesting is this message from…