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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