Sorry to start another OT thread, but after football tonight we stayed behind and saw highlights of the football league awards. They had the best players from the last ten years to play in the football league and not a single City player made the list. They went for: Schmeichel Bale Morgan Williams Rangel ( ) Hoolahan Whittingham Lallana Rhodes Lambert Murray Manager: Eddie Howe I don't know what the criteria were, I'm guessing that they have to still be playing now, otherwise how the hell have the likes of Delaney, Ashbee and Myhill not got a mention? Fair play I'd have given the manager award to Eddie Howe, but how has Schmeichel been awarded the best keeper in the last DECADE when the likes of Paddy Kenny (I know he's a dick) have made over 500 appearances, most of them pretty reliable?
The very same. He's made a lot of appearances for Forest, I can only assume that's what it's based on, but is he really the best defender over the last decade in that league? I'm not so sure. Julian Speroni has 258 football league appearances for Palace, he's easily been the best FL goalkeeper over the last decade.
I know he does, that was my point, if the criteria are that they have to be current professionals, then surely Myhill should've got in ahead of Schmeichel? He's still better now.
He's back up at WBA and has been in and out of their side since he left us 5 years ago, Schmeichel has been playing pretty consistently.
A team of the 'decade' that goes about as far back as 2011. Shambles. Why do a team of the decade 5 years into a decade, because clearly that was what they were doing.
Why? He's got a budget that almost any other manager outside the Prem would kill for and he did a ****e job at Burnley. As a direct comparison I'd say Sean Dyce did much better in cleaning up the mess that Howe left when he got homesick. How in ****ting crikey does Rhodes get in there? Hasn't he had a couple of decent seasons at best?
It's a funny mish-mash of Championship stalwarts and one-season wonders who moved up (eg Lallana). And I completely agree that pre-2010 seasons have been ignored - hence Morgan getting in ahead of the likes of Phil Jagielka or Darren Moore. Although his most prolific years predated 2005, Kevin Philips did have a prosperous two-year spell with WBA (2006-08), winning Championship player of the year in 2008. He was twice the player Rhodes or Murray could ever hope to be. Funnily enough, the player selected to the PFA Championship team the most times (I think) isn't there: Ian Harte.
I'm thinking that the only reason could be that the team, rather stupidly, is from 2010 onwards, bending the premise of 'decade'.
Well he got Bournemouth to league one, then left for Burnley, went back to Bournemouth, got them up to the Championship, they narrowly missed out on the playoffs in their first season and then this season got them to the brink of promotion.
I thought the same thing, but then that would be akin to naming the football league team of the century tomorrow.
