Leicester City

2016 PFA Player of the Year Riyad Mahrez, Young Player of the Season Dele Alli

The PFA Player of the Year awards were announced last night at the Grosvenor House Hotel, with Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez picking up the prize. Mahrez, who arrived at the hotel in a helicopter from the King Power Stadium after Leicester’s 4-0 win over Swansea City, pipped Dimitri Payet, Harry Kane, Mesut Ozil and club mates Jamie Vardy and N’Golo Kante to the award and becomes the first African to win it. Even Chelsea’s mercurial Ivory Coast forward Didier Drogba, for all his exploits at the Bridge, never won the award during his stint there.

Spurs’ Dele Alli was named Young Player of the Year. He was however unable to attend because the Lilywhites have an upcoming fixture against West Bromwich Albion. Ossie Ardiles collected the award on his behalf

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PFA Premiership Team of the Year 2016- 4 Leicester & Spurs players, no Ozil

Four players each from Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur have made it to the PFA Premiership Team of the Year for 2015/16. The Foxes have Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kante and Wes Morgan on the list while the Lilywhites are represented by Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Danny Rose and Toby Alderweireld.

Leicester skipper Morgan has now been named in his division’s Team of the Year in four of the last six seasons (thrice when LCFC when in the Championship and now once in the Premier League)

Manchester United stopper David de Gea is in goal, while West Ham and Arsenal have one representative each in the form of Dimitri Payet and Hector Bellerin respectively.

Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil, who is a nominee of the PFA Player of the Year, doesn’t find a spot in this TOTY announcement.

More interesting to note is the relative costs of the players involved. At first glance, David de Gea appears to be the most expensive player in the list (around £18m), but apart from him, Alderweireld and Payet, no one else cost their respective teams more than 10 million pounds. More than half the squad was bought for l million pounds or less!- Kane, Bellerin, Mahrez, Morgan, Rose and Vardy

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GIF Jamie Vardy red card vs West Ham 2016 | Vardy v Ogbonna second yellow by referee Moss

This Jamie Vardy red card v West Ham (GIF BELOW) was a major talking point in Leicester’s fixture against the Hammers on 17 April, 2016. Vardy was given a yellow card by referee Jonathan Moss and because it was his second yellow of the game, he was sent off. Opinion differed on social media as to whether it was a dive or a penalty and whether or not Vardy deserved his marching orders

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