IAIN MACINTOSH: A toe-rag but the boy’s got talent

Ok, so he’s a biting, cheating, diving toe-rag with a history of racial abuse, but he’s a hell of a player, isn’t he?

Thanks to Luis Suarez, there’s every chance the PFA are going to have to go with that as a press release next weekend. After all, the votes are already in. He may have already be the new Player of the Year.

It’s a shame that the footballers may have their awards ceremony overshadowed by this because for once they’ve done a really good job. Usually they do something silly, like vote for a bit-part Ryan Giggs, or complete forget about Vincent Kompany, but this year they surprised everyone by coming up with six players that very few people could complain about.