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Post by staggerstag on Apr 13, 2017 14:05:08 GMT
The shortlist is in for the player's player of the year :
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Man Utd)
Harry Kane (Tottenham)
N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea)
Romelu Lukaku (Everton)
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal)
I'm going Hazard despite Kante being the red hot favourite but whose odds make him basically unbackable.
The book (B365)
Kante 1/8
Hazard 6
Ibrahimovich 20
Kane 25
Lukaku 25
Sanchez 40PFA Player of the Year Awards
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 13, 2017 14:09:56 GMT
Hazard for me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 15:10:26 GMT
Where is Alli?
I guess I'd go for Kante.
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 13, 2017 15:14:21 GMT
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Post by MrFurious on Apr 13, 2017 15:56:06 GMT
Went with Kante. Loads of fans of top teams pissed that we didn't get him. And no way he'd ever down tools like Hazard did last season.
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Post by WullieFort on Apr 13, 2017 16:08:44 GMT
Where's Dembele ?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 16:43:47 GMT
Dembele's are a bit like buses, you wait for one... well... you know the rest. |
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Post by mangekyoalleluia on Apr 13, 2017 16:55:04 GMT
Lukaku for me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 16:59:15 GMT
For some reason whenever I watch Lukaka, he can't hit a barn door. Can't knock his stats though. |
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 15, 2017 23:18:44 GMT
On Football Focus, Hartson goes with Ibrahimovic and Lawrenson's vote is with Hazard. The idiot presenter of the show, skinny jeaned hipster Dan Walker did not opine on the matter and was too busy consulting his i-pad throughout the entire broadcast to even be bothered.
I haven't watched the show for a while and was surprised to see Sting and his son pop up at the end with their match day predictions (but not before reminiscing about the good old Toon days of Christ knows when)
Sting : Sunderland draw - correct
Spurs win - correct
Joe, Son of Sting : Watford win - correct
Liverpool win - pending
Not bad, but if I ever lose my faith in football, I think I'd email, erm, lemme think... yep, Nick Cave for his weekly predictions. Probably he'd tell me to get lost and then go on to pen some 40-verse fifteen minute narrative entitled 'Oh Lineker's Bar' where all the TV pundits die various and horrible deaths, never to be seen again and lamented not at all 
Football Focus really has had it, though. The sight of Lawrenson sprawled in his chair like the nutter on the bus really failed to happify me.
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Post by MrFurious on Apr 16, 2017 11:14:39 GMT
He's a great lad that Son of Sting. Tough one predicting Watford against a fighting for their lives Swansea, no way he's gonna get 2
lol@ Nick Cave
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2017 12:31:57 GMT
Kante scoring the decisive goal against Man United live on terrestrial tv on a Monday night will push him over the line for sure.
It has a double pronged effect. Firstly that game would have had significantly more viewers than a normal game on Sky or BT. Secondly, all those extra people who saw the game would be talking about it on social media, at work, on internet forums etc causing a kind of feedback effect. The eulogies written about him in the press suddenly take on this extra confirmation, this all feeds back to the people who are voting, in this case the players, and they will with no doubt be influenced by the 'buzz' around him. If Hazard had scored a hattrick in that game the eulogies would have been about him and he would be taking the award. But Mourinho did a hatchet job on him, so maybe that is the one small solace Mourinho can take, he has prevented Hazard from winning it.
A similar thing happened to the boxer, Joe Calzaghe. He'd been fighting on Sky and building up a bit of name recognition, but still a lot of people hadn't seen him fight despite him being an unbeaten world champion. Then ITV managed to buy the rights for one of his fights, and suddenly he would have a fight against the American, Jeff Lacy (who was being built up as the next big thing), in front of an audience of probably 7 or 8 million instead of the usual half a million in front of the sky cameras. Joe Calzaghe pummelled him for 12 rounds, Jeff Lacy's face was a horrible mess, in retrospect he probably wasn't the fighter we all thought he was, but that didn't matter, it is the one fight that everyone remembers and low and behold Joe Calzaghe won SPOTY award that year.
That's not to say that Kante (or Calzaghe) aren't worthy of the awards, but sometimes putting in a great performance on the right night will push you over the line.
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 20, 2017 11:22:03 GMT
He's a great lad that Son of Sting. Tough one predicting Watford against a fighting for their lives Swansea, no way he's gonna get 2 lol@ Nick Cave
Not bad, these Sumner lads, eh? |
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Post by Excellent Bulletproof Vest on Apr 20, 2017 11:39:50 GMT
I think we can rule out Sanchez and Ibrahimovic given the PFA team.
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Post by runie on Apr 20, 2017 11:43:23 GMT
I think Alli deserved a mention in this but from that list and probably from any list Kante like most.
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Post by MrFurious on Apr 20, 2017 12:57:48 GMT
He's a great lad that Son of Sting. Tough one predicting Watford against a fighting for their lives Swansea, no way he's gonna get 2 lol@ Nick Cave
Not bad, these Sumner lads, eh?I wonder are they on twitter. We can ask them for tips every weekend. I think they were lucky last weekend though. |
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