In a revelation that shocked precisely no-one, Eden Hazard and Harry Kane were named as the PFA’s player and young player of the year respectively last night
Hazard was widely tipped to win the main prize after his excellent recent performances consolidated Chelsea’s stranglehold on the Premier League title race.
The 24-year-old has scored 18 times in all competitions but was characteristically humble when it came to the honour.
‘I’m very happy,’ the Belgian playmaker said. ‘One day I want to be the best and what I did this season is play very well, Chelsea played very well.
‘I don’t know if I deserve to win but it is good for me. It is good, it is better to be voted by the players – they know everything about football. This is good. I’m very happy.’
Huge congratulations to @ChelseaFC’s @hazardeden10 – named the PFA Player’s Player of the Year! #PFAawards pic.twitter.com/AxKCMPSFes
— Professional Footballers’ Association (@PFA) April 26, 2015
Just 12 months earlier, Hazard won the young player gong and he was succeeded by Tottenham striker Harry Kane, who somewhat bizarrely finished ahead of Hazard in the voting for the award, while both men also featured in the PFA’s team of the year.
PHOTO: @SpursOfficial's @hkane28 collects the PFA Young Player of the Year award at the #PFAawards pic.twitter.com/Y7zTvri87O
— Professional Footballers’ Association (@PFA) April 26, 2015
Kane has been a goal machine for Spurs, with 30 goals already to his name in his first full season of first-team action.
