Ridman Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 On average Giggs has played 37 minutes per game this season... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.R. Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 If they're going to completely ignore performances and award it purely on sentimentality, why not go the whole hog and give it posthumously to Jade Goody? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Bassong has looked good in our team, he should be up for world player of the year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Libertine Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 On average Giggs has played 37 minutes per game this season... and his fellow midfielders; Lampard has 19 goals Gerrard has 21 goals Ronaldo has 23 goals Ireland was also conned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I'd love to see a clip of Giggs' contributions this season. How long would that last, a minute? You could make a DVD out of Ireland, Jagielka and Vidic's performances. How long did it take him to score that goal at West Ham? That long I'd imagine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Remember when Cannavaro won player of the tournament in the last World Cup? It's exactly the same 'shit, he's a legend, we better give him something even though he doesn't deserve it' mentality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridman Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Remember when Cannavaro won player of the tournament in the last World Cup? It's exactly the same 'shit, he's a legend, we better give him something even though he doesn't deserve it' mentality. Dunno, I thought he was immense in a strong Italy side that only conceded two goals during the tournament (an unfortunate own goal and a penalty) Didn't Zidane win the golden ball though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Remember when Cannavaro won player of the tournament in the last World Cup? It's exactly the same 's***, he's a legend, we better give him something even though he doesn't deserve it' mentality. Dunno, I thought he was immense in a strong Italy side that only conceded two goals during the tournament (one of them in the finals). Didn't Zidane win the golden ball though? Actually, my mistake, it was even more ridiculous. Cannavaro won Fifa World Player of the Year for 06, not WC player of the tournament. In 06 Kaka was still pissing all over everyone, how Cannavaro got it I'll never know. Zidane won player of the tournament for the World Cup, which is probably just about right for his performance against Brazil alone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Hahaha. What a fucking joke. The PFA Player of the YEAR is not meant to be a lifetime achievement award. This confirms what we already knew: footballers are really fucking thick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 No Lampard in the team of the year? If these votes were cast in January, he's definitely in the team based purely on Chelsea's awesome start to the year. Fucking thick footballers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Remember when Cannavaro won player of the tournament in the last World Cup? It's exactly the same 's***, he's a legend, we better give him something even though he doesn't deserve it' mentality. Dunno, I thought he was immense in a strong Italy side that only conceded two goals during the tournament (one of them in the finals). Didn't Zidane win the golden ball though? Actually, my mistake, it was even more ridiculous. Cannavaro won Fifa World Player of the Year for 06, not WC player of the tournament. In 06 Kaka was still pissing all over everyone, how Cannavaro got it I'll never know. Zidane won player of the tournament for the World Cup, which is probably just about right for his performance against Brazil alone. To be fair to Fabio, he was the anchor of three title winning sides during that year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Remember when Cannavaro won player of the tournament in the last World Cup? It's exactly the same 's***, he's a legend, we better give him something even though he doesn't deserve it' mentality. Dunno, I thought he was immense in a strong Italy side that only conceded two goals during the tournament (one of them in the finals). Didn't Zidane win the golden ball though? Actually, my mistake, it was even more ridiculous. Cannavaro won Fifa World Player of the Year for 06, not WC player of the tournament. In 06 Kaka was still pissing all over everyone, how Cannavaro got it I'll never know. Zidane won player of the tournament for the World Cup, which is probably just about right for his performance against Brazil alone. To be fair to Fabio, he was the anchor of three title winning sides during that year. I see your point, and its certainly not a bad one, but I think that was more to do with the team as a whole than Cannavaro. Whereas Kaka was everything as a player at that time, regardless of his team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Remember when Cannavaro won player of the tournament in the last World Cup? It's exactly the same 's***, he's a legend, we better give him something even though he doesn't deserve it' mentality. Dunno, I thought he was immense in a strong Italy side that only conceded two goals during the tournament (one of them in the finals). Didn't Zidane win the golden ball though? Actually, my mistake, it was even more ridiculous. Cannavaro won Fifa World Player of the Year for 06, not WC player of the tournament. In 06 Kaka was still pissing all over everyone, how Cannavaro got it I'll never know. Zidane won player of the tournament for the World Cup, which is probably just about right for his performance against Brazil alone. To be fair to Fabio, he was the anchor of three title winning sides during that year. I see your point, and its certainly not a bad one, but I think that was more to do with the team as a whole than Cannavaro. Whereas Kaka was everything as a player at that time, regardless of his team. Kaka, alomg with all the other Brazilians, really failed to produce at the World Cup, so it would have been tough to give to him that year. He definitely earned and was rightly given the award in 2007. I don't know, I'm a big central defender myself, and I like to see us given some credit. People love to praise those soft little playmakers and strikers, but you never hear us getting credit for cleaning up all the messes. Let us have one for once. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliemort Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 is that at ryan giggs winning or my theory that it all changed in august 1992 ? R the fact Ireland was abs robbed blind Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 The oddest choice for me is Anelka in the Premiership team of the season. Obviously I've missed something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 The oddest choice for me is Anelka in the Premiership team of the season. Obviously I've missed something. Perhaps you've missed that he has scored more goals than everyone bar C.Ronaldo? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 The oddest choice for me is Anelka in the Premiership team of the season. Obviously I've missed something. Perhaps you've missed that he has scored more goals than everyone bar C.Ronaldo? Well that would be it, but being the second top goalscorer isn't exactly an outstanding achievement. For me, he hasn't looked anything exceptional, and Chelsea improved very noticeably when Drogba came back into form and Anelka got bunged out on to the wing. On occasions, Rooney has absolutely carried his team this season. I do think there are some players - Bryan Robson and Paul Scholes are other examples - who play to such high standards that their performances are taken for granted and they don't get these awards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest toonlass Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Premier League Team of the Year: Edwin van der Sar; Glen Johnson, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra; Ashley Young, Steven Gerrard, Ryan Giggs, Cristiano Ronaldo; Nicolas Anelka, Fernando Torres Giggs in central midfield. Ferdinand and Evra. :kinnear: No Lampard. :kinnear: How did Shola not get in like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raconteur Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Well that would be it, but being the second top goalscorer isn't exactly an outstanding achievement. For me, he hasn't looked anything exceptional, and Chelsea improved very noticeably when Drogba came back into form and Anelka got bunged out on to the wing. On occasions, Rooney has absolutely carried his team this season. I do think there are some players - Bryan Robson and Paul Scholes are other examples - who play to such high standards that their performances are taken for granted and they don't get these awards. That's very true - and I think there's an element of that in Giggs' award. He's about to play his 800th match, and it's like the membership of the PFA suddenly thought "Holy Shit, how hasn't a champion like him won it once in the past 18 years?" Okay, so it's more likely that SAF had that thought, told the MUFC PR team, who then sent it out as a spam email to the PFA membership Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 The oddest choice for me is Anelka in the Premiership team of the season. Obviously I've missed something. Perhaps you've missed that he has scored more goals than everyone bar C.Ronaldo? Well that would be it, but being the second top goalscorer isn't exactly an outstanding achievement. For me, he hasn't looked anything exceptional, and Chelsea improved very noticeably when Drogba came back into form and Anelka got bunged out on to the wing. On occasions, Rooney has absolutely carried his team this season. I do think there are some players - Bryan Robson and Paul Scholes are other examples - who play to such high standards that their performances are taken for granted and they don't get these awards. I'm not so sure I'dve put Anelka in the team myself, but it's obviously because of his pretty amazing goal scoring form in the first half of this season. As much as Rooney has his merits for basically carrying Man Utd in some games (see Tottenham... well, in association with Howard Webb), Anelka has his merits for doing the plain old goal mooching striker role (even if it turns out that Chelsea's system suits a Drogba style striker more). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 How awards should have went IMO. PFA Player of the year - Steven Gerrard PFA Young player of the year - Steven Ireland Team ---------------------Schwarzer------------------ Johnson-------Vidic-------Jagielka-----Evra Ireland----- Lampard ----- Ronaldo Gerrard Rooney--- Torres Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Doesn't this get decided in Jan/Feb? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 SSN showed a couple of clips of Wolves players saying why they voted for him, mainly because he's a legend etc. I was a huge fan of Giggs in his prime, but no way should he have won it this year. Utter bollocks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 What a joke Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Doesn't this get decided in Jan/Feb? Yup. The whole system is flawed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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