Quote: reffy "Neil Fox probably lost votes because he wasn’t a ‘celeb’.'"
It was an online vote 6 years ago.
While I can acknowledge the rise of the Silver Surfers the plain facts are that the web is far better utilised by a younger audience and you'll always get a greater number of people able to recall something that happened 20 years ago over events from 30 years further back.
It was always going to be weighted to favour the likes of Offiah and Hanley rather than the Fox's or Clive Sullivan, for example. It's the same reason that we at Saints have statue of Keiron Cunningham rather than one of Vollenhoven or Alf Ellaby to name just two.
The fact that Murphy, Ashton and Boston who all played in the same era as Neil Fix from the late 50s to the early 70s were picked ahead of him is something of a head scratcher though