Gareth Bale wins both PFA awards

Tottenham’s Gareth Bale has been named Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year.

“It’s a massive honour,” said the 23-year-old. “To be voted by your peers is one of the biggest things in the game.”

He becomes only the third player to win both awards in the same season.

You can certainly make a case for Bale winning the main award, although personally I’d have opted for RVP for obvious reasons, but at least Bale winning saved English football the embarrassment of having Suarez win the award.  

I also think the system urgently needs to be changed so a player can only be nominated for one category, the nominees for the Young Player of the Year should be 21 and under and I would have chosen Lukaku for that one, Bale has been around too long to still be considered a young player.

Interesting to see how upset everyone got with Reg D. Hunter using the n-word a few times during his stand-up routine, even though that’s a part of his routine and he’s been doing it for years, would love to sit all those who were offended by his stand-up down and put on a DVD of Chris Rock’s Black People vs. Niggas routine and see what they’d make of that.

As well as the player and young player awards team of the year was also decided with the PFA going for this:

GK David de Gea

RB Zabaleta

CB Jan Vertonghen  

CB Rio Ferdinand

LB Leighton Baines

RM Eden Hazard

CM Michael Carrick

CM Juan Mata

LM Gareth Bale

ST Luis Suarez

ST Robin van Persie  

This is all wrong, nobody plays 4-4-2 anymore, Mata isn’t a CM, and selecting De Gea as the best goalkeeper this season, are you kidding me.   

My team of the year makes much more sense:

GK: Begovic

RB Zabaleta

CB Ivanovic

CB Vertonghen

LB Baines

CM Carrick

CM Fellaini  

LW Bale

AM Mata

RW Cazorla

ST Van Persie

Coach: Michael Laudrup

4-2-3-1 is the formation most teams play nowadays and as that only allows for one out and out striker I chose RVP over Michu and Suarez for two reasons, 1) his performances are the reason Man United are champions and 2) He’ll finish as top-scorer.

I went for Laudrup over Ferguson as coach because we all expect United to be up there competing for the title, whereas Laudrup has surprised everybody, me included, with just how well he has done this year.