Eg: Best Goalie, Best Defender, Best Midfielder, Best Attacker, etc? With an award going to each? Perhaps with an over-arching award going to the best player, chosen from the category winners? Or creative midfielders and prolific strikers the only players of importance in a team? Discuss.
Trouble is some players don't fit a particular label. Is Bale forward or Midfield, are Michu/Hazard? Is Luiz defence or midfield?
When was the last time a goalie or a defender won the PFA Player of the Year? Are they any less important in a football team, or to its success during a season?
He's bored like the rest of us! Bowt time the season kicked off. Anyway...it's all about the hype these awards!
HIAG, forwards usually win the award because the best players are usually forwards. If you are a great athlete, have great pace, control and vision, can pass, shoot and head to a high standard, then you will often finish up playing as a forward because that's where your skills can be utilised the most and you have the greatest impact in the team. There are exceptions, of course, but you'd be hard pressed to find too many. How often does a 'keeper or defender win the award. 1/10 times? Midfielders win more often, but they are usually attacking ones.
Paul McGrath was the last defender to win it in 92/93. With Pallister winning the year before. Pat Jennings in 75/76 for goalkeeper
