The Football Writers' Association has announced the opening of voting for this season's men's and women's Footballer of the Year award. Unlike previous years, there is no clear standout candidate, making the selection process more challenging.
On April 1, the Football Writers’ Association emailed its members to announce that voting for this season’s men’s and women’s Football er of the Year award had opened. Last year’s men’s selection was easy; Erling Haaland was breaking scoring records for the soon-to-be Treble winners in his first season in England. The year before, Mohamed Salah was the outstanding candidate, claiming the award for the second time. This year is different. There is no 40-goal scorer.
No vintage, injury-free season for a Salah or a Kevin De Bruyne. No Premier League newcomer taking the top flight by storm. The FWA don’t mandate a shortlist of candidates; members are at liberty to select whomever they desire. But their email included a rundown of six suggested frontrunners – two from each of the sides currently locked in a three-way title race. A firm argument could be made for each, but still none stood glaringly above the others.– must resist being prisoners of the moment and allowing one stand-out recent display to disproportionately colour a season’s work. But this wasn’t a run-of-the-mill hat-trick, if such a thing exists; this was not a case of a player filling his boots at the tail end of a lopsided victory. This was a player delivering for his team in a high-leverage situation, against high-calibre opposition. And it was the continuation of a tren
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