Who Is Your Midfielder Of The Year ?

@ hustler
When you don't argue you don't learn. Beside it is another wah to have fun in as long as the arguement is done in a proper way.

 As at: Tue 15 May 07 09:06
     
Name Index Score Overall Index Rank Team
1 cristiano ronaldo                     617 2 Manchester United
2 frank lampard                         572 5 Chelsea
3 mikel arteta                            567 6 Everton
4 cesc fabregas                         565 7 Arsenal
5 gareth barry                           561 8 Aston Villa

Kaka is the best no doubt, but never you outwit Lampard in England

Weda Lampardoo, Fabrigasoo, abi kiniko,
all those rating na bullshit.

If reality should play it's role, the best player of the year being a midfielder,
Is the best midfielder of the year.

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite  (ESHI  KAKA)

Kelechichukwuka Ewereibo of INVISIBLE FC of OWERRI!

That's y we're invisible

Kaka is the best

Cesc Fabregas

I see Ronaldo as more of an attacker but well

Ronaldo is my midfielder of the year.

comming to the english league, gerald could be the best
but my best is cesc fabrigas

Just a few points to make -

Statistics are useful but  more so if you are buying an electrical item. Sports and arts cannot simply be reduced to statistics. They can be a fun guide, but,

Imagine a fictional match between Ac Milan and Real Madrid. Beckham attempts 50 passes, and completes them all. His stats look fantastic - because they don't take into account that every single pass was made to the player next to him, just two feet away.

Kaka on the other hand only touches the ball a few times, and because the passes to him are poor, he gets dispossessed every time but one. That one time he produces a bit of magic and sets up a goal.

But the stats will show, incorrectly, that Beckham was by far the better player. So have fun with stats, but it's perhaps best not to use them as 'proof' in any debate.

About Lampard. He had an okay season in the Premiership, for him. Excellent by others standards. But he was generally poor in Europe, and has been appalling for England. He really shouldn't be in the team. Gerrard is a far more complete and adaptable player than Lampard, although he too had an average season, domestically.

Essien was outstanding this year. As was Ronaldo. Scholes (who finished behind Gerrard in the stats!) was perhaps my pick, purely because he's had to pick himself up this year after a bit of a decline.

I'm not sure that 'stats' were invented by the English, I suspect you'D have to go back a few thousand years to one of several possible ancient civilisations for that.

In sport - you are posting from the US, a country that has used stats to an incredible degree in sport, and had done so for decades before anyone thought of transferring them to footy.

I personally noticed three waves introducing stats to football. Sky TV, when they took over coverage of the Premiership. They introduced four hour shows for a single game of 90 minutes - they had to fill the rest of the time with something! Newspapers  got into Fantasy Football which saw another wave of stats hit the nation. And now the internet - there is always someone with too much time on his hands!

What makes you think the English introduced stats anyway? Any evidence or links you could point me to? And what time period are we talking about? The 60's saw England win the World Cup, and English teams (with mostly English, or at least British, players) utterly dominated Europe throughout the 70's and well into the 80's.

Well, people do say funny things sometimes! 

Michael Essien he was very instrumental tous this season. Whether he played in the right back or not he is a midfileder and he did wonderfully well.

Bravo Essien.

Cesc Fabregas. Absolutely and without a doubt, my midfielder of the season! A player who is young (19), full of energy, played 99% of all games, Carries the entire team, dictates the pace, and even scores goals. . .   All in the most exciting style of play. Watch out for him this season

I'm highly disappointed with this pole, do u know Kaka aint there, nwayz mine in Riquelme wot a breakthrough season, sent away from villareal 2 boca yet setting that part of d world alight.