James Milner Nominated For PFA Young Player of the Year

Written by Dan on April 15, 2010

James Milner’s season continues to go from strength to strength. First he was listed in Ollie Irish’s Top 10 Premier League Players Of The Season and now he’s been nominated for the 2009/10 PFA Young Player of the Year award.

Andy Gray holds the 1977 PFA Player of the Year and Aston Villa Central Player of the Year Awards

Villa have a reasonably rich history with this award. Andy Gray won in 1977 and also picked up the Player of the Year award too, the first to win both and the first non-English player to win either. Gary Shaw picked up the award in Villa’s 1980/81 League winning season and Ashley Young won the award last year.

It sometimes feels like James has been around forever, but he’s still just 24. He’s in some fine company on the shortlist for this award though; Wayne Rooney and Cesc Fabregas no less. Joe Hart from some other team in Birmingham completes the quartet of contenders.

Rooney and Fabregas are also nominated for the Player of the Year award, so logic would dictate that should either win that then they should also automatically be the Young Play of the Year, but that kind of logic doesn’t always follow. To date, just Andy Gray and Cristiano Ronaldo have won both in the same year.

Congratulations and best of luck to James who is once again proving that the future is bright, the future is claret and blue.

I’m delighted to confirm that James won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award.