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Steven Gerrard has been named as the PFA Fans' Player of the Year for the 2008-09 season.
The Liverpool captain, who has struck 21 goals so far this campaign, was recently pipped to the PFA Players' Player of the Year award by Manchester United's Ryan Giggs.

However, following a vote conducted by the PFA, Gerrard has scooped the fans' gong after another exceptional season.

PFA Chief Executive Gordon Taylor said: "Steven has always been a particular favourite of mine and I was delighted when he was nominated by his fellow pros for our Players’ Player of the Year award.

"Obviously, that particular award went to Ryan Giggs, and rightly so, and I am equally thrilled that football fans up and down the country have acknowledged Steven in this way.

"Like his many supporters and suitors, I have the utmost respect and admiration for the way he continues to go about his business. He is a top pro and a worthy winner."

Gerrard was the inaugural winner of the honour in 2001.


Well deserved imo, other than the niggling injuries it's been his best season since 03-04, he's also started acting like a proper captain, such as his support of Lucas a few weeks back.

nice one Stephen! Fan's have more sense than the players obviously!!! Giggs? pathetic choice imo - he should/could have won it in past seasons fair enough but he's not hardly played this season so it's ludicrous. Stevie should have won it this year!

Giggs was ridiculous, if they'd have wanted to give him a special award for services to the premiership then fair enough, but to have won it by starting 12 games scoring 1 goal, was a disgrace.

As much as i can't stand the bloke, how in the hell was Lampard not on the shortlist? or far more importantly, Alonso

The Giggs gong was probably a "send off" present for all his years of service. I dont think he deserved it though.

Gerrard and Lampard are probably more deserved winners. and it shows that when it comes down to the fans, they prefer our captain to fat fwank

Giggs great player no doubt but if the PFA want to award him with a gong they should have done it separately - he was not the player of the year!

Makes me laugh to see Van de Sar was 2nd on many votes too. What for? Reina has had a better season then him!!! Why don't they just hand out the gongs and trophies to the manc scum in mid-August and be done with it!!!

SIR Alex? my arrrrrse!
Shankly? Paisley? Clough?
Matt Busby was also a Sir... call me Mr. Paranoid but it makes you wonder doesn't it.

its political football, dam

Clough was a scumbag alchy who thought all black people were 'spear chuckers' and blamed the Liverpool fans for Hillsbrough a long time after The Taylor Report.

Busby deserved it for building another team out of the ashes of Munich.

Shankly would have turned it down anyway, he said as much himself in a letter to a fan i've read (may have been Brian Reade from the Mirror). Ferguson is just a Champagne Socialist.

whether Shankly wanted it or not, the point is that he was never considered or at least as far as we know...

but going back to the topic, just look at the nominees this year - all bleedin mancs except for Gerrard! Van de Sar? they taking the p*ss??? no room for Reina, Alonso (OK he may have his critics but even Kuyt has had a brilliant season) and that's just our team, have the chavs got no one or even Arsenal (maybe not)...

It just smells a wee bit of sh1te to me that's all

It's because footballers are thick that's all.

they just take the 6 players who had the most votes and stick them in a list, the players decided on those 6 players, not the media or FA.

Van De Sar was going through the record amount of clean sheets when the votes were taken.

personally my list of 6 would have been

Vidic
Lampard
Alonso
Jaglielka
Ferdinand
Gerrard

or something similar.

Congrats Stevie, was shocked when Giggs out voted you. I would have even put Lampard above him.