Monday 28 April 2014

Luis Suarez wins PFA Player of the Year award

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been named as the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year at an awards ceremony in London on Sunday.

The Uruguayan, 27, travelled down to the ceremony after the Reds’ 2-0 defeat at home to Chelsea earlier in the day.

Why oh why oh why don’t the PFA wait until the season is FINISHED until they start handing out all the prizes and naming a team of the year?

What happens if Man City wins their next three games, win the title and Toure plays a key role in all three games? If that happens then shouldn’t he be getting the player of the year nod?

And why does the PFA insist on giving the young player award to already established players, in Hazard’s case he’s 23 and in his sixth season as a professional, hardly a young player is he.

To make matters worse Aaron Ramsey (23 and in his seventh season as a professional) and Daniel Sturridge (24 and in his eighth year as a pro) were also nominated, it’s ridiculous.

The award should’ve either gone to Sterling or Shaw as they are actually young players!

I can’t complain too much about team of the year although I would swap Gary Cahill with John Terry at the back, but that’s it.

And last, but by no means least, it was in some ways refreshing to watch the Liverpool-Chelsea game yesterday as for the first time this season a top 6 team went to Anfield and didn’t play into Liverpool’s hands.

Arsenal, Everton, Man City and Tottenham all went to Anfield and left themselves exposed and gave Liverpool all the time and space they wanted and they all deservedly got punished for being so naive, although the City game did highlight a huge weakness in Liverpool’s approach, if they don’t blow the opposition away in the first half and go in three or four up they usually don’t win.


As someone who likes to see football being played in the right way it was hard to watch a team go out and not make much effort to win, but Arsenal, Everton, Man City and Tottenham all went to Anfield knowing what Liverpool were going to do and did nothing about it, yesterday Liverpool knew what Chelsea were going to do and did nothing about it, they didn’t have any back up plan or other way of doing things, which if City win their remaining games will cost them the title.   

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