Beard Liberation Front
19th November
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Mauricio Pochettino joins vote for Beard of the Year shortlist
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that the process of determining the Beard of the Year 2019 will take the next step on Friday 22nd November when the shortlist for the coveted Award is published
The on-line poll to determine the twelve finalists is now open and will close on November 21st
The final poll opens on November 22nd with the winner announced on December 28th.
This year for the first time the position taken in the vote for the shortlist will determine the order in which names appear on the final vote.
The former Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino has joined the poll. The campaigners say that given his late entry, if there is support, weighting based on tried and tested YouGov methods will be applied to determine if he wins a place on the Beard of the Year poll
The criteria for Beard of the Year is as follows:
The Award is NOT about people who grow beards in their bedrooms and post pictures of them on the internet
The Award IS about people with consistent beards in the public eye who promote a positive image of the hirsute
TV doctor Xand Van Tulleken and cosmologist Peter Coles currently at Maynooth University in Ireland shared the Award.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, of course we always hear criticism that Pochettino doesn’t have a full time beard. The reality is that his beard comes and goes in the much same way as that of Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, a former Beard of the Year winner did. It is a common feature of the sports beard
Beard of the Year longlist
Jurgen Klopp, football manager
Ben Stokes, cricketer
Philip Wilton, Tottenham cheese maker
Stig Abell, Editor, Times Literary Supplement
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader
Noam Chomsky, academic & activist
Ben Bellamy, Winner, Beard of Autumn 2019
Lenny Henry, comedian
Paul Mason, Winner, Scary Beard of Halloween 2019
Benjamin Zephaniah, poet
Michael Rosen, author & broadcaster
George Clooney, actor
Billy Connolly, performer
Idris Elba, actor
Prince Harry, Royal
Billy Bragg, musician
Rylan Clark-Neal, Strictly, It Takes Two
Bob Harris, broadcaster
Raheem Sterling, footballer
Alexei Sayle, comedian
Lowkey, rapper
Harry Kane, footballer
Mauricio Pochettino, football manager
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