"Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league."
Source : Beatrix Farrand, Carmen Messinger Pearson (2009). “The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand: American Landscape Gardener (1872-1959)”, p.128, UPNE