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Twitter has voted Fairytale of New York the winner of the World Cup of Christmas songs

It’s a worthy winner indeed.

IT WAS A long and hard battle, but Fairytale of New York has come up trumps on Twitter’s World Cup of Christmas songs.

Congratulations to the winner of the World Cup Of Christmas Songs...

FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK!

Thank you all so much for taking part and for raising so much money for @childsi. You are all amazing. Every penny greatly appreciated. Merry Christmas! https://t.co/9wyRDqlAt5
— Richard Osman (@richardosman) December 16, 2017

Richard Osman / Twitter

It was up against Last Christmas, and breezed past the finish line at 51 percent.

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Television host Richard Osman ran the World Cup since Thursday, slowly eliminating 32 tunes such as All I Want For Christmas Is You and Driving Home for Christmas over a series of too-close-to-call polls.

Betfair took bets on the outcome and are donating all losing bets to charity

#WCOCS Betting:
East 17 not expecting to Stay Another Day
Santa Claus may not be coming to town
All Mariah wants for Christmas, are you voteshttps://t.co/hoVWsg2QZ1 pic.twitter.com/9AQUh0OzgZ
— Betfair (@Betfair) December 15, 2017

Betfair / Twitter

I think we can all agree we finally have a worthy winner.

RhinoUK / YouTube

People were only delighted at the just decision

Others, not so much

What would you have picked?

Poll Results:

Fairytale of New York (1090)

Last Christmas (99)

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