No surprises on who my first pick is - 'El Nino' Fernando Torres. Not just because I'm a Liverpool fan but because he is the best striker in the Premiership and, in my opinion, should have won the PFA Player of the Year. Not many manage to reach 30 goals in their debut season at a club, yet alone their debut season in the Premier League. He's got more goals in his debut season than Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Thierry Henry, Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo did in theirs, which makes the future look even brighter for the Spanish star. There were many strikers who competed for Torres' place up front including Emmanuel Adebayor, who I didn't include due to his lack of form since he lost those trademark dreadlocks, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Nicolas Anelka, who probably would've been included had he stayed at Bolton, Wayne Rooney and Robbie Keane.
The second centre forward position was harder to decide on. The candidates were John Carew, who has been vital for Aston Villa this season, Yakubu, Everton's main striker this season and another player who has been hugely important for them, Carlos Tevez and Dimitar Berbatov. In the end, however i chose a man who is arguably signing of the season - Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz. 21 goals in 41 appearances is not bad at all for your debut season in the Premier League. Torres can beat that tally though. But what Torres can't beat is the value for money of Santa Cruz. He only cost Blackburn £3.5 million, whereas Torres cost near £25 million.
One man who I didn't even consider for this team was Chelsea's Didier Drogba. This is not because I'm a Liverpool fan, it's because he is one of the most despicable players I have ever seen on a football pitch. For a man that big to go down that often - it just doesn't happen. If you watch the recent incident where he accidentally hit Vidic in the face with his knee in slow motion you can actually see him fling his arms and head back and start to go down, until he realised what actually happened. This shows that his first response to contact is to go down. I heard that Rafa Benitez has compiled a DVD of Drogba's tumbles to show to his players before the Champions League semi-final on Wednesday. Well, I think he's going to need more than one DVD, and I also think he should publish it - Drogba might win an Oscar for some of that acting!
My Team of the Year:
- David James (Portsmouth)
- Vedran Corluka (Man City)
- Patrice Evra (Man Utd)
- Rio Ferdinand (Man Utd)
- Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd)
- Javier Mascherano (Liverpool)
- Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd)
- Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
- Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
- Roque Santa-Cruz (Blackburn)
- Martin Petrov (Man City)
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