And the Winner is..........

Whew, what a close finish. Another year of tom foolery, stupidity, daftness and buffoonery is at an end, and the results are in. For the first time in the five years that this award has been presented there has not been a clear runaway winner. In the past, the final decision has been made weeks in advance, with such legends of idiocy as Jamon, John the Don, Funky and Shouty winning at a canter. But the Bender Squad had a lean 12 months, with no mass gatherings, bar Mad Ad's stag night, so the race for the Maillot Jaune was a lot tighter, as the foolishness tended to come in bursts, rather than a massive blow out. Still, at one point it looked like history might be made, as a stupendous display Bavaria by the Right Honourable, earned him what seemed to be an unassailable lead. But then came the Helmet Hurricane in the Scottish capitol. and the lead was wrestled away, before a severe lapse of judgement in the Villager tied everything up. So for the first time, we had a tie. It was decided to hold an X-Factor style text vote to determine the winner, although the Mercenary did suggest a kind of "Golden Goal" night out. I assume this would mean gathering in a pub, drinking copious amounts of beer, and seeing which of the protagonists would be first to crack. A kind of Buffoon roulette if you like. A good idea, and something that will be discussed in a couple of weeks, when we are hoping to have a meeting to lay out an "Buffoon Constitution" that will enshrine the laws of points scoring in Squad law.

I digress. On to the voting. I sent out a text to 18 senior members to decide the outcome for 2009. There were 14 replies, although three of the previous winners declined to register their nomination. So the final number of ballots cast was 14. At first things seemed as they could go to the wire, as the first six texts were split evenly between the Muppet of Munich and the Eegit of Edinburgh. But from there on in, it became a landslide, as apart from one abstention, the rest of the votes cast for for one winner. So it is my great pleasure to unveil the recipient of the Maillott Jaune as "Le Grande Buffoon 2009", by a vote of 10-3, is the one and only..........












TONY HELMET!!!!!!







Previous Winners

2008- Shouty Paul










2007- The Funky Messiah









2006- John the Don










2005- Jamon












So just as we crown a new King, the race to crown another begins. As I pointed out earlier in this post, we will be drawing up a fairer, more transparent system for determining future winners. In the meantime, however, we will be using the current scoring system, and we will readjust any points accrued after we now who we are going to score in the future.