Chris Kirkland; Phil Jagielka, Rio Ferdindand, Nemanja Vidic, Glen Johnson; Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Stephen Ireland, Gareth Barry; Tim Cahill, Fernando Torres. Or I might swap Kevin Davies in for Cahill, but I’m biased on that front.

Giggs winning is laughable.

That said, I think they got it wrong! While Giggsy deserves every accolade and superlative as a player and as a professional and ticks every box in terms of what you would want in a player/individual, the truth is that this award is for the best player of the season and with 12 league starts how can you be a genuine contender?

It was a nostalgic vote but I must say it somewhat restores my faith in the humanity of this overpaid, bently driving, inarticulate bunch of egomaniacs that, as a collective, they made this choice.

Timing of course is everything. When Giggsy scored that suberb individual goal to win the game at West Ham on Feb 6th the press went into superlatives, revisiting Giggsy’s contribution to the game and ruing the fact that he had never won the Player of the Year Award.

At a time when most were voting his fellow professionals obviously took note.

I agree that the vote should be in May and cover the whole season.

I think Vidic should have won it. How often does it go to a defender and he has had an outstanding season. He’ll probably never get another shot at it so let’s remember that Giggsy’s gain is potentially Vidic’s loss.

Lampard would also have been in there in my vote. Anelka definitely not. If it was voted in May Rooney would be a definite contender and Evra could have missed out. Also, considering that the vote was pre Liverpool’s ‘purple patch’ I’m not sure how Torres made it in based on the number of games played and goals scored to that point.

We’ll all have our opinions but in the end its the democratic vote of the Pros that decides and in that context there’s no right or wrong!