PFA Awards 2010

On Sunday night, Wayne Rooney won the PFA Players' Player of the Year award whilst James Milner picked up Young Players' Player. Rooney is the top scorer in the Premier League with 26 goals and 5 assists, Cesc Fabregas was second behind Rooney with 15 goals and 15 assists from Midfield. Didier Drogba was third and the statistics suggest he arguably deserved to win the award with 26 goals and an amazing 13 assists from the Forward position. It isn't as if Drogba cashes in on these 7 goal wins Chelsea have so frequently, in fact he didn't play in the 7-1 victories versus Sunderland and Aston Villa and only picked up 2 assists against Stoke in the 7-0 drubbing on Sunday. But as an Englishman I am happy to see Rooney win the main award in this World Cup year and Milner another Englishman picking up Young Players' Player.

The PFA Divisional Team of the Year - Premier League looked like this: Joe Hart, Branislav Ivanovic, Patrice Evra, Thomas Vermaelen, Richard Dunne, Cesc Fabregas, Darren Fletcher, Antonio Valencia, James Milner, Wayne Rooney, Didier Drogba.

This selection of players without a doubt flattered the Manchester United team.

Patrice Evra has had an outstanding season, probably his best yet, but Chelsea's Ashley Cole has scored 3 goals to Evra's 0 but Evra has 7 assists to only Cole's 3. Despite this Cole has played over 1100 minutes less than Evra still being involved in 11 clean sheets. This selection isn't a clear mistake and is very debatable.

Although the selection of Darren Fletcher seems fair, Fletcher has scored a mere 3 goals and had 6 assists this season but after being dubbed as the "Big Game player" by the press. This "Big Game player" did manage 2 goals in the Manchester derby and picked up assists versus Liverpool and Spurs. Apart from that he, like most United players, has relied on Rooney this Year. The man who should unquestionably be in the Squad is Frank Lampard. He has scored an unbelievable 21 goals and 15 assists from Midfield. These 21 goals come from a player "who hasn't been his best this year" "who hasn't scored as many goals this year" as many 'top' pundits had stated earlier in the season. Incidently Lampard has never scored above 13 goals in the League and only once has he got 16 assists in the 04/05 season one more assist than this season so far.

Valencia is another debatable selection especially since Malouda, voted Players' Player at Chelsea recently and who arguably due to a good run of form towards the end of the season should have been in the squad with 12 goals and 8 assists in 2123 minutes. Valencia on the other hand picked up 5 goals and 9 assists in 2600 minutes.

Chelsea may feel hard done by in the Team of the Year, but at the end of the season it might be them with last laugh, needing to win their last two games to officially be named the best team of 2009/2010 season.