Knighthood nominee Ryan Giggs wins PFA award

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Award:

The player, deployed in a variety of roles by his club manager Alex Ferguson this season, beat off competition from Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Edwin van der Sar and Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, to claim the award.
it is likely that he will make his 800th appearance for the team when they face Arsenal in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final this week.
Many have expressed a certain amount of cynicism about his nomination, feeling it was an exercise in sentimental nostalgia, as he has made only 12 Premier League starts and scored just one league goal. Few would begrudge one of the game's most enduring characters his success, though.

United have six players in the team of the year, but Wayne Rooney is perhaps one surprising omission from the line-up.

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.

Knighthood:

Salford-based government minister Hazel Blears has joined forces with Opposition Conservative spokesman Chris Grayling to back the recently launched petition to knight "the outstanding British footballer of the last generation", Ryan Giggs.
The internet petition, launched from mustbered.com, has listed 11 reasons that would justify the knighting of 35-year-old Giggs.
Chris Grayling, Conservative spokesman and self-confessed Red Devil, has used his own political reputation to add weight to the claims that Giggs should be rewarded for his outstanding achievements.

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C'm ooooon sign this

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Whatever

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Giggs is outstanding indeed and has had an awesome career, BUT this season he was average at best, he shouldnt even be in the top 20 players, let alone win it, SHOCKING STUFF. He has been very inconsistent this season, and his contribution was average! There are players from within his team that deserve the award more ... Vidic had an incredible season IMO. On the other hand you have Gerrard, Lampard, Ferdinand, Torres, excellent premiership footballers delivering outstanding performances game in game out.

Im trying to show you that im being un-biased and I have nothing against Giggs. As for our squad, its been plagued with injuries, but we have had strong contenders as well namely RVP, who had an incredible season.

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Actually no player has been THAT terrific in the EPL this year. Everyone had their moment, but the only consistent player was by far Stevie G. Honor Giggs some other day and give credit to the people who actually deserve it!

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John Barnes and Tony Cascarino furious with the choice of Ryan Giggs as the PFA award winner:



And their unanimous pick??

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Giggs didn't do anything this season. In 2008/2009 he's shit compared to Gerrard.

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John said what I said earlier

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Right, so that makes you a bigger football connaisseur than a Liverpool legend and an Irish legend??

Vidic has been 10 times better than Gerrard this year?? LOL.

1st piece of evidence:

Man Utd 1 - Liverpool 4, a game where Vidic was sent off after fouling Gerrard. Look up all the games ratings and compare both players. You will see that Steven is light-years ahead Vidic

2nd piece of evidence:

Rio Ferdinand. He's the guy who's holding that back-line together. Whether it is Evans or Vidic, this guy would get the job done and lead the team. When Vidic and Evans were playing together, it was complete chaos (see the games against Porto)

Your blabla is out of place dude, I suggest to take it easy in defending what is an already lost cause. I would have had more troubles defending my point of view if you mentioned Rooney or Ferdinand, but you didn't. So please, next time you're watching a Man Utd game, keep on the look-out for these 2 guys as well as Michael Carrick.

Jeez