these surely must be sympathy awards not saying both of them have not improved recently but come on hardly justifying player of the year awards, my my I thought the one Giggsy got a few seasons back was a soft award after him winning his 20th Premier League title or something, these have to be up there, probably Gerrard was gonna get it because of all his England caps...
Couldn't be more wrong. Look at what the award is for. Hendo has captained and pulled the strings for the U21s for quite some time now, nothing to do with club form. And if you actually watched any games, you would see what 99% of us see, Gerrard has been England's most consistent performer for a long while. Admittedly he is helped by poor performances by those who could have wrestled the accolade away from him, but Gerrard has performed to a good standard almost game in game out for quite some time for England, something his colleagues cannot claim. Thoroughly deserving of the title.