Hardly surprising. Drogba was 2nd, then Scholes in the player of the year award, Fabregas and Lennon in the young player.
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Hardly surprising. Drogba was 2nd, then Scholes in the player of the year award, Fabregas and Lennon in the young player.
Check out the Team of the Season which was chosen.
United have 8 players, and Chelsea, Liverpool, and Spurs, 1 player each.
I know that United are top, and are most likely to win the league, but 8 players is just too much. Rio Ferdinand?? Better than John Terry?? No way.
http://www.thepfa.co.uk/display.cfm?...e=10273&type=1
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Wesley HOOLAHAN - Blackpool
He has been one of the finds of the season after joining the Seasiders from Scottish club Livingstone in a season-long loan deal in the summer. The left-sided midfielder's wing wizardry, as well as an ability to score goals, has seen him establish himself as a popular figure at Bloomfield Road and manager Simon Grayson will no doubt be doing all he can to persuade Hoolahan to make his move a permanent one.
Gary neville and rio ferdinand !!!!! :confused:
My team would be
Howard
Dunne Lesscott Carragher Terry
Ronaldo Fabregas Arteta Gerrard
Rooney Drogba
A cheat gets voted player of the year by his fellow pros. Says alot about the way the game has gone in England. It doesnt matter how you get the result as long as you get it.
The team wasnt one persons team it was a collation of votes from all the players in the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by anto1208
It is not saying that Terry is better than Ferdinand it is saying that Ferdinand has had a better year, Terry was injured for quite a bit of it so when the votes were cast more players thought that Ferdinand was more deserving of it, which is fair enough. I would have had Richard Dunne there to be honest along side Vidic with Steve Finnan at right back but maybe I am biased towards Ireland. I would not have had Berbatov either as he only played for half a year by that stage in January. It should have been Doyle and Drogba.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Ferdinand has done sweet FA this season but Terry has done even less!!!! Evra and Vidic have earnt their places. How Essien didn't feature I will never know. A few of the Portsmouth lads should have been in contention - Doyle would have got the nod in mine also.
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Originally Posted by gustavo
He is notorious for his diving but I think most people can admit he isn't half as bad as he was last season.Quote:
Originally Posted by First
And I also don't think anyone can complain with the results. He was undoubtably the best player in England this season. Drogba had a great season but Ronaldo was emense. Diving/cheating wee git he is, you can't take away his performances this season
Ronaldo won it not Gerrard :DQuote:
Originally Posted by First
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Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
I know he has had a good season but I really don't think he was top man.
What about the pros that keep preforming week in week out , like Nolan at Bolton, Arteta at Everton, most of the Reading first team, Barton at city , these are the people who should be receiving these awards.
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Originally Posted by anto1208
Are United worthy of dominating the PFA XI to such an extent?
Has the PFA gone for the obvious rather than the best in its Premiership team of the season, or do Man Utd really warrant eight players in the line-up?
Paul Doyle
April 23, 2007 1:03 PM
Britain's high streets are today awash with professional footballers doing their Christmas shopping. Probably. Because these are guys who like to get things out of the way early, which is presumably why their union, the Professional Footballers' Association, orders them to submit their votes for player of the season by the end of January, more than three months before the league's denouement.
Because of the PFA's strange method (why couldn't the vote have been done electronically last week?), eight United players - eight! - made the Premiership team of the year, hardly surprising since, at the end of January, United were six points clear at the top of the Premiership and being widely feted for sticking it to the nouveaux riches whingers down south, while Chelsea were reeling from injuries to Petr Cech and John Terry and the awkward integrations of Andriy Shevchenko, Michael Ballack and Ashley Cole.
There are many debatable decisions. Have Gary Neville and Patrice Evra really been the best full-backs in the country this season - or simply the most publicised? Should professionals not have recognised the quiet but effective way Steve Finnan goes about his work? Or, dare we say it, could they not have looked beyond the big four? Then, surely, they would have noticed Nicky Shorey.
Similarly for the centre-backs, within the top four there are other more obvious candidates than Rio Ferdinand. Ricardo Carvalho has been outstanding all season, but perhaps doesn't get the attention he deserves because his less talented partner happens to be England captain, while the effortlessness with which 22-year old Daniel Agger has replaced Sami Hyppia at Liverpool has been superb. But again there's been an even better performer outside the top four: Abdoulaye Meité has been colossal in Bolton's defence and, unlike Nemanja Vidic, required zero time to adapt to the English game. You could make a strong case for Joleon Lescott, too.
Michael Essien's absence from the middle is baffling. But again there is an even more blatant omission - Steven Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes have all had their moments, but no midfielder has been more consistently creative or inspirational in the league this season than Mikel Arteta. Except maybe David Bentley.
Up front, Didier Drogba and Dimitar Berbatov have been excellent but should the formation not have been tweaked to accommodate a third striker? Namely Benni McCarthy, who, as a £2.5m summer arrival at Blackburn, has unquestionably been the bargain of the season.
Or is all this quibbling disingenuous? The players and clubs who get the most publicity do so because they're the best - so by trying to look beyond the obvious, perhaps we're trying to be too clever. Besides, shouldn't we on the sidelines just shut up? After all, who could be better placed to assess whether someone is over-rated than the people who confront him on the pitch week in, week out? And on that note, isn't it interesting that Wayne Rooney was one of the few United players not to make the PFA's team of the year?
or Andy Johnson ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by anto1208
I was waiting and you didn't fail:pQuote:
Originally Posted by papa-j
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Michael Essien's absence from the middle is baffling. But again there is an even more blatant omission - Steven Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes have all had their moments, but no midfielder has been more consistently creative or inspirational in the league this season than Mikel Arteta. Except maybe David Bentley.
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You know thats the first bit of praise ive seen him or any everton player get all season .
I'd go the same but just 2 changes. Friedal for Howard and Vidic for Terry. I don't think Gerrard played to his full ability this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by anto1208
Also I think Steven Hunt and Steve Sidwell have been oustanding for the second half of the season but that wouldn't matter seen as the votes are made in January.
Can't understand some of the criticism for Ferdinand. I've seen every Man Utd game this season and he has been their best defender.
The team does seem to be top heavy with Man Utd players- I'd have James, Finnan, Carvalho and Fabregas in the team.
GK - Foster - Although playing in the worst team in the league, he has been exceptional all season
RB - Finnan - no thrills but very dependable
LB - Evra - Been excellent all season, very quick and good going forward
CB - Vidic - scored a few great goals and is emense at the back
CB - Terry - great player and has been great all season - chelsea fell apart when he was abscent
RM - Ronaldo - Best player in the league this season, no doubt.
CM - Essien - Great player and to me the best at what he does
CM - Scholes - has been emense this season, his passing, his vision and his leadership have been priceless.
LM - Giggs- Has shown his experience and has been great all season. Has also show great leadership to. A great all-round footballer.
St - Drogba - Has been great all season, great all-round player and has scored loads of goals.
St - Barbatov - see drogba, but not quite as good but still excellent
My team is still mostly United, but i think it's as good a team as anyones.
If You swapped Carvalho for Terry and Nicky Shorey for Evra I'd go with yours Steve Bruce