The mid-season awards

It’s the season for giving and with the Premier League season at its halfway point, Darren Norris hands out the mid-term honours.

Best goal award goes to...

A few contenders. Hatem Ben Arfa’s long-range blast for Newcastle against Aston Villa was the best individual effort of the season so far, although Luis Suarez’s glorious piece of control for his goal against the Magpies runs it close. But the best goal was a team effort that came earlier this month when Aston Villa’s Andreas Weimann and Christian Benteke combined for a glorious goal against Liverpool at Anfield. Weimann found Benteke and continued his run before firing home when the Belgian’s perfectly weighted first time back heel was played back into him.