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Wayne Rooney achieved the Professional Footballers association Player of the Year. The names of the other nominees along with Rooney were Cesc Fabregas, Carlos Tevez and Didier Drogba. But Rooney won the award and thus Manchester United won this award for four times in successive years.

Rooney is in incredible form in this season. He scored 34 goals for United and also scored eight goals for England. This 24 year old player can be the key player in this upcoming World Cup , not that it was a surprise - online betting had him as the clear favorite. Rooney was very happy after winning the Player of the Year Award. He said that he was very proud for winning this award. He also said that it was great since this award was voted by the players and thus players selected the deserving player.  Rooney won the young player of the year in the year 2005 and 2006.

Rooney has just come back from the injury of his ankle. But he could not play in the weekend where his team won the match against Tottenham by 3 – 1. Rooney is the top scorer of The Barclays Premier League with his 26 strikes. He hopes that he will return to the final of the United’s campaign to play against Stoke which is held in the next month. Rooney also said he is not worried about his injury and he is very much sure that he will be fine and fit in the world cup.

Rooney was the first man from English who won the Steven Gerrard award in 2006. He said that behind his career Sir Alex has an important role who has really played an important role when Rooney joined the United. For the award of PFA Young Player of the year Rooney was nominated but the award went to the James Milner.

Chela bagged his first ATP Tour title in three years. Chela who is 30 years of age beat third seed and world number 25 Querry. Chela who lost the first set in the final won the match over Querry who is eight years junior and ranking 57 places higher from Chela.

The two players played against each other for the first time. Opening set was the tight one and Querry break the service of Chela in seventh game of first set and took the lead 4-3. But soon Chela took the advantage and levelled the score. Again Querry broke the tie at 5-5 and took a lead 1-0 against Chela.

The next set was a fighting set but soon Chela took the advantage of double fault made by Querrey at game point and took to 5-4 lead in the 10th game. Querry who is a winner of indoor tour took place in this year in Memphis could not stand against Chela who levelled the match by breaking the service and made the third set a crucial one.

Querrey again took the lead in the third set first while winning the first game but Chela again took the next advantage.

At 3-3 Chela started to win the games and gained three more game points and thus defeated Querrey in the final. Out of three game points that Chela lost in the third set one was due to his own double fault. But ultimately he won the third set by 6-3. Querrey was the third American in succession who lost US Men’s Clay Court Championship final after the defeat of James Blake in the year 2008 and another one was Wayne Odesnik 12 months ago.

Chela won the final by 5-7 6-4 6-3 in two hours and twenty five minutes at River Oaks Country Club. For Chela this match is the first final to win since he won the match in Acapulco in 2007.

Manchester United was defeated by the Bayern Munich. Rooney a top class striker of Manchester United is facing a big problem with his ankle injury. Van Basten who was the most feared striker in the world once was disgusted by the decision of Alex Ferguson, the manager of the Manchester United. After Van watched the match he was surprised by the decision for letting his best striker in pain for 55 minutes in the field.

Though Rooney told that he was fit, but he has not fully recovered from his ankle injury. Rooney should have been kept under rest for the treatment of his injury.

In the first few minutes Rooney was facing difficulties while playing on the ground against Bayern Munich. Van Basten has told that he was praying for Rooney to be replaced after watching him in difficulty. He was surprised when his highly rated manager of Manchester united did not take him off. He also told that if ankle is damaged and again if you get another injury on the recovered ankle then the pain remains forever. While watching the condition of Rooney he recollected that he was once in the position where Rooney in now.

Vas Basten the feared striker in the football has achieved a hat trick against England in the year 88 at the Euro Cup. In the final he secured the golden boot after making goal against the former Soviet Union. But soon after that championship he had an ankle injury for which he had to go a series of surgeries but could not recover from injury and he was forced to stop playing early at the age of 29.

Thus when he watched Rooney in the match he could feel the pain when Rooney hurt his ankle badly in the first few minutes again. He also said that he observed that Rooney was walking on his feet while for a striker it is normal to play up on toes.

Steven Gerrard is September’s PFA 2UP Fan’s Player of the month along with Kightly, Beckford and Thorne
The Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard is September’s PFA 2UP Fan’s Player of the month. Even though the game has started late for Stevie G because of his injury,  the England international still managed to be in the second place in the Premier League table. Gerrard’s surprising strike in the first leg against PSV Eindhoven has proven of his performance returning to top form.
If we can recall, Liverpool’s club captain announced last September that Gerrard id only 70 to 80 percent fit from his groin injury but is already playing. Now that Gerrard is already backing at almost 100 percent to top form, Manchester must watch out.
Being the 16th Liverpool player who scored 100 goals for the club, Gerrard’s manager Rafa Benitez paid tribute to him and is expecting of him to continue and go for the 200 goals. Being one of the best offensive midfielder for the club, Gerrard is expected to give more score for them in the future.
According to the PFA deputy executive Mick McGuire, Gerrard is a man that needs not to be introduced. With this season, Gerrard had scored two goals in the Cahmpions League fixture versus Marseille. In addition, with their game versus Middlesbrough, Gerrard did a stunning shot from outside the penalty area. With these performances, Steven Gerrard is simply an excellent player.
Along with Gerrard, Michael Kightly got the fan’s player award in the championship. He, together with fellow wing wizard Matt Jarvis, became largely responsible for Wolves’ great start to the season.
However, it is very unfortunate for manager Mick McCarthy with his both star players Kightly and Jarvis who have both picked up hamstring injuries and will be missed badly, although Kightly will be out from the game not as long as with his pal.
Despite of being the most in demand player by a number of Premier League clubs during the summer, Kightly managed to sign a new four-year deal with Wolves and has already rewarded the team with eye-catching displays and goals with this season.
Another winner for this season is last year’s overall winner Jermaine Beckford is now the League One Player of the Month, again proving to be this season’s main man for Leeds.
According to the team’s boss, Jermaine produces a bit of magic in just a split second, which made them keep on emphasizing to Jermaine how far he can go and what more he can achieve.
For the last two years, Beckford was playing non-league football, during the last season he bagged over 20 goals, and manager Gary McAllister is hoping for Beckford to maintain such kind of performance.
Finally, Peter Thorne is awarded as the Fan’s Player of the month for League 2. Thorne at the age of 35 is still doing great fro his team Bradford, and did an impressive goal every two games ratio. Aside from Bradford, Thorne also did score goals consistently for his previous clubs like the Swindon, Cardiff, and Stoke and is still doing the same great things for the Bantams.