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13th Apr 2016

Aston Villa cancel their player of the year award but we have 12 perfectly good nominations for them

Spoiled for choice

Conan Doherty

Aston Villa have cancelled their player of the year award.

They’re rock bottom, they’re stinking the place up, you know yourself.

So, instead of celebrating anything about what has been eight pitiful months so far, the club have reportedly just abandoned a player of the year award.

https://twitter.com/AlexKJTimes/status/720204797626949632

Only last season, they were forced to cancel their goal of the month competition for October… because they didn’t score any goals.

This campaign has been dire, they’re headed straight for the Championship this weekend, and there’s a poisonous atmosphere consuming Villa Park.

The club can’t even write anything on their Twitter account anymore without getting bombarded by disgruntled supporters. We took a look at the social media accounts of Premier League clubs during a random midweek and, naturally, Villa’s was the most hilarious.

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So you can imagine how that lot would’ve reacted to the club’s announcement of a player of the year award in this year of all years. Of these players of all players.

They still deserve recognition though. They’ve played as many games as every other club. They’ve tried their hardest. Well, they’ve tried.

Okay, they showed up. In body.

It was probably too tough to call for the club to pick just one of their potential players of the year but here are their options.

Brad Guzan

Brad

Alan Hutton

LOL.

Micah Richards

Richa

Via @AVFCPromotion17.

Joleon Lescott

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Aly Cissokho

Depressing that you could actually make a case for him.

Jack Grealish

Ashley Westwood

Action shot of Ashley Westwood demanding the ball in centre midfield.

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Idrissa Gueye

He’s actually been alright.

Jordan Veretout

No.

Gabby Agbonlahor

Jordan Ayew

https://twitter.com/AndrewAshburn/status/718826916141264896

Actually, we’ve found the player of the year. Kevin Toner. Good Irish man. Plenty of fight. Give it to him just.

https://twitter.com/adambath25/status/719619117662121984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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