Best “Alternative”
Premier League Player of the Season:
1st - Clint Dempsey
Overall Reason: Number of goals scored from midfield and impact on team’s results.
Overall Reason: Number of goals scored from midfield and impact on team’s results.
2nd - Tim Krul
Overall Reason: Consistent form and sheer number of clean sheets
kept.
3rd - Grant Holt
Overall Reason: Goals and importance to his team’s survival.
Premier League Player of the Mid-Season (1st Half) -
GWs 1-19:
Overall Reason: The play-making match winner that inspired
his team to the top.
2nd - Robin Van Persie
Overall Reason: Goals, goals and goals in saving Arsenal’s
reputation and season.
3rd - Gareth Bale
Overall Reason: Providing the creative spark to Spurs’
outside title challenge
Premier League Player of 2012 (2nd Half of the Season)
- GWs 20-38:
Overall Reason:
Adapted quickly to his new team’s style of play and scored at will.
2nd -
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Overall Reason:
Supplementing Swansea’s ethos and proved to be a match winner.
3rd -
James McClean
Overall Reason:
Didn’t start under Bruce, yet proved himself in style under O’Neill.