good job united only paid 3.5m for the lad and after everyone had seen him villa STILL offered 1.5m for him

He had obviously impressed the scouts of Villa with his abilities

maybe trevor 'sorry mr cantona, you're not good enough for sheffield wednesday' francis was an employee

1 Liverpool 38 45 86 2 Man utd 38 41 86 Whats everyone elses predictions? mine was a dream one with man u drawing with boro, city and arsenal in the real one man u won by 4 points. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/predictor/default.stm

1 Liverpool 38 45 86 2 Man utd 38 41 86 Whats everyone elses predictions? mine was a dream one with man u drawing with boro, city and arsenal in the real one man u won by 4 points. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/predictor/default.stm

That would actually make everything fall into place too. I still hate that he pops up on La Liga sometimes tho, they must be hard up for summerisers (that's Francis, not Cantona or big Eric by the way!!).

Wire_85 wrote:1 Liverpool 38 45 86 2 Man utd 38 41 86 Whats everyone elses predictions? mine was a dream one with man u drawing with boro, city and arsenal in the real one man u won by 4 points. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/predictor/default.stm Liverpool 38 49 86 Man utd 38 41 85 Chelsea 38 42 81 and thats not just me hoping

Wire_85 wrote:1 Liverpool 38 45 86 2 Man utd 38 41 86 Whats everyone elses predictions? mine was a dream one with man u drawing with boro, city and arsenal in the real one man u won by 4 points. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/predictor/default.stm Liverpool 38 49 86 Man utd 38 41 85 Chelsea 38 42 81 and thats not just me hoping

i know he played in italy, but i didnt know he'd had a spell in spain

United 38 43 90
Liverpool 38 48 86
Chelsea 38 42 81
Arsenal 38 30 72
Everton 38 15 61
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Hull 38 -26 35
W. Brom 38 -31 34
Boro 38 -28 32

Utd 88
Liverpool 86
Chelsea 81

That wasn't the exact point I was making, no. But some people seem to be basing this award purely on this season, rather than the calendar year.

You could argue 'til you're blue in the face about who should've won this award, but at the end of the day, it's the players who've voted for it. And they're going to base it on different criteria to us as supporters. After all, we're not the ones out on the pitch playing against them. We just go off the odd game we see, highlights and statistics.

It's all about opinions.


And anyway, where was the public outrage when David Ginola won the award in '99? That was an even bigger joke!