The Seventy Two's Football League team of the season
The Seventy Two’s Football League team of the season
Team of the season
- Shwan Jalal (Bournemouth)
- Kevin McNaughton (Cardiff City)
- Joe Skarz (Bury)
- Jose Fonte (Southampton)
- Guy Branston (was Torquay United, now Bradford City)
- Dean Cox (Leyton Orient)
- Gareth Ainsworth (Wycombe Wanderers)
- Adel Taarabt (Queen’s Park Rangers)
- Scott Sinclair (Swansea City)
- Ryan Hall (Southend United)
- Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United)
Manager: Paul Lambert (Norwich City)
I decided to do something a bit different for The Seventy Two’s Football League team of the season. Picking four names each from the Championship, League One and League Two, the side above was assembled with help from John Verrall (League One) and Ben Mayhew (League Two).
If you support any of the teams represented here and would like to write something about one of your players who has been included, please let me know either by email or on Twitter.
And, as ever, if you disagree with any of the selections, don’t get mad, get commenting below!
11 Comments
Ben Mayhew
June 16, 2011This is an outrage – I specifically requested that Guy Branston be picked for all 11 positions! ; )
Haydon Spenceley
June 16, 2011Splendid. I can’t think of anyone who should have got in instead, but that midfield isn’t going to tackle much is it!
lopo
June 16, 2011Dear oh dear.
How at least 1 or 2 Stevenage players are not included is a travesty.
John Ashton, Mark Roberts, John Mousinho and Lawrie Wilson all robbed!
theseventytwo
June 16, 2011At least one or two?! In the whole of the Football League!!
Doherty
June 16, 2011You’ve accidentally missed out Danny Graham (the championships top scorer), and put in Adel Prat and Kevin Mcnaughton.
theseventytwo
June 16, 2011We did accidentally pick the best player in the Football League, yes. And one of the best defenders. Apologies for that.
Danny Graham is unlucky to miss out, just the formation picked and the way the picks went.
Doherty
June 16, 2011He is a good player but he is still an unlikeable character that will probably be shown up next year with the higher use of defensive midfielders.
theseventytwo
June 16, 2011Will be very interested to see how he gets on. Robbie Savage shut him down completely in one game towards the end of the season, which didn’t bode well, but he was magnificent for the vast majority of it.
Perhaps QPR will push him out wide more next season if he gets less time on the ball in the middle. We’ll see.
Doherty
June 16, 2011If he gets pushed out wide, this may lead him having a defensive workload though, and i saw that game and it seemed as soon as Savage put a heavy tackle in on him he played poorly until he was eventually substituted. I just doubt he has the personality or the work rate to be in a side which could be battling for survival, however it depends on how good of a defensive pivot Warnock manages to put together I guess, anyway mate keep up the good work.
theseventytwo
June 16, 2011Cheers, thanks for the comments! Agree he’s never going to be any good at tracking back, good point about the downside of pushing him wide.
Stanley
June 17, 2011Taarabt was also completely shut down by Millwall’s defence at the Den in February. We’ve all applauded the highlights reel, but he (and thus his team) was easily marked out of that game and a few others, it seems. Add to that his petulant resignation from the Morocco national squad and I think Doherty is right to call his character into question. It’ll be interesting to see if he can have an impact in the Premier League.
Ainsworth’s name is mud at the Den as well. Very good work, though. The picks that I have seen live all did justice to their selection here. Great to see Leagues 1 and 2 getting equal billing.