The season is almost over. Clubs with birds on their badges won all domestic trophies and another in Tottenham lifted the Europa League. Trust Chelsea to spoil the symmetry of all this.
With only the Champions League left to be decided not there, no birds there it is time to distribute my alternative end season prices.
Who is the fastest player of the Premier League and who is the slowest? Which player can only score with one foot? Who can't touch a barn door with a banjo and what future player of Manchester United is running more than he runs?
The winners are …
The Hare and the Tortoise Award – Micky van de Ven and Adam Lallana
It is always nice to see which players were the Premier League -Speed ​​-Demons and who were the slow coaches.
Tottenham -defender Micky van de Ven clocked this season the highest top speed of each player at 23.1 mph, just before the Matheus Nunes of Man City and Anthony Elanga van Nottingham Forest on 22.8 mph.
Elanga set his top speed in the match against Manchester United, where he raced 85 meters in nine seconds to score one of the goals of the season.
Adam Lallana shuffling is Adam Lallana who achieved a top speed of only 17.2 mph. Well, he is 37.
Better late than never award – Mo Salah
The 29 league goals of MO Salah not only provided the 20th league title of Liverpool, but also that he took the Premier League Golden Boot home for the fourth time. However, he did not leave it half late.
Nineteen of his goals came after the hour with a competition high eight of them in the last 15 minutes, just like his 84th minute equalizer against Crystal Palace on the last day.
Salah's 22 goals in the second half matched Erling Haaland's count for the season and was only a less than Golden Boot Runner-Up Alexander Isak.
Haaland, on the other hand, is preferable to the blocks. Twelve of his strikes came in the first half hour of matches with six of them in the first 15 minutes. He only scored two in the last fifteen minutes.
The other leg is at standing price – Cole Palmer
Cole Palmer scored 15 goals this season – all with his left foot.
The next nearest players to score all their goals with the same foot were Bruno Fernandes, Ebereechi Eze and Jacob Murphy, who all scored eight goals with their right side.
A word also for Virgil van Dijk, Gabriel and New Real Madrid sign Dean Huijsen who each scored three goals … all with their heads.
Lionel Messi Walking Around Award – Matheus Cunha
During the World Cup 2022, no player walked further during games than Lionel Messi before producing his usual moments of magic.
How Manchester United will hope that their approaching signing Matheus Cunha can do the same. No player spent more of their time in the Premier League this season than the wolves forward while he swung around before picking up the ball on his way to 21 competition goals and assists. No player scored more goals from outside the box than Cunha's five stunners.
Just behind him in the walking stakes, Virgil van Dijk, who proves that reading the game, is much more important than haunting.
Master of the Dark Arts Award – Dominic Solanke
Tottenham striker Dominic Solanke was the key to the energetic style of Postecoglou in Ange, so that he was more busy in the last third than any other player, but he was also the key in stopping opposition attacks … and getting away with it.
Solanke committed 36 errors without being shown a yellow card for one of them, the most in the competition this season. Compare that with poor Newcastle defender than Burn, who has only committed 34 mistakes but was booked 11 times and Arsenal-younger Myles-Lewis Skelly made 11 mistakes and was sent away twice!
Safe Hands Award – Jordan Pickford
Forget the Golden Glove, shared between David Raya and Matz Sels for their 13 clean sheets each, this price goes to the man whose rescues have prevented the most goals.
Data Giants Opta measures the power and placement of a shot to assess how probably it is to find the net and therefore or a goalkeeper is expected to keep it out. Was it 'bread and butter' for the keeper or did he have 'no right' to make it?
No keeper prevented more goals this season than Everton and the No1 Jordan Pickford of England, who had six more than he should have done, before Ederson and colleague England International Dean Henderson.
A special mention, meanwhile, for Leicester goalkeeper Danny Ward, who is sitting on a second worst for goals that have prevented the entire campaign, despite playing only one and a half play. He gave six goals and, according to the data, should have kept three of them out.
Barn by Meets Banjo Award – Raheem Sterling
For the first season since 2011-12, when he only played 27 minutes as a 17-year-old, Raheem Sterling ended the campaign without a league objective. He didn't even have a shot on goal.
Sterling had the most shots of a player without any of them found the target, the goal missed all 11 of his attempts, or broad or driven in oncoming traffic.
Will Hughes can happily count himself. If he had not found the target for the only time with the first of his 22 shots of the season, he had gone home with this prize.
Poor Jesper Lindstrom in Everton, however. He had 28 shots, got 10 on goal, but still managed to find the net – most player.
Why do I have the price for price – Lucas Paqueta
It was a difficult season for West Ham Vooruit Lucas Paqueta for many reasons, on and next to the field, but no wonder he became so frustrated when he created the most chances of a player this season without ending the campaign with an assist.
Paqueta created 36 of them, but his teammates from West Ham did not succeed in finishing a single one. Jacob Murphy van Newcastle now created 42 chances and ended with 12 assists, the second highest in the division.
Oh, to have some ruthless finishers by your side.
I am invisible price – Chido Obi
It must be so frustrating when you see an opening in the defense, destroying a intestines to make a run, only for neither of your teammates to pass the ball.
Then save a thought for 17-year-old Manchester United Vooruit Chido Obi who made 61 off-the-ball runs for only seven of them to be the target of a teammate, the lowest percentage of each player to have made as many runs as he did. Poor boy.
Some of those runs would have been to draw defenders and create space for a colleague -alternating player to receive the ball and do nothing with it, but come on, give the boy a chance.
You will not pass Award – Tyrone Mings
One of the most paved statistics in recent times is that of the 2018-19 season in which Virgil van Dijk went the entire campaign without a player drifting past him.
What was so impressive was that Van Dijk started all 38 games for Liverpool. Since then, no player has managed that perfection level.
David Luiz played 20 games, starting 17, for Arsenal in 2020-21 without being drunk by.
This season was the outfielder who played the most minutes without anyone passing him … Aston Villas Tyrone Mings. The center-back played 14 games, from 12 noon and helped Villa to nine victories without anyone flew by.