PFA Premiership Team of the Year 2016- 4 Leicester & Spurs players, no Ozil

Four players each from Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur have made it to the PFA Premiership Team of the Year for 2015/16. The Foxes have Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kante and Wes Morgan on the list while the Lilywhites are represented by Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Danny Rose and Toby Alderweireld.

Leicester skipper Morgan has now been named in his division’s Team of the Year in four of the last six seasons (thrice when LCFC when in the Championship and now once in the Premier League)

Manchester United stopper David de Gea is in goal, while West Ham and Arsenal have one representative each in the form of Dimitri Payet and Hector Bellerin respectively.

Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil, who is a nominee of the PFA Player of the Year, doesn’t find a spot in this TOTY announcement.

More interesting to note is the relative costs of the players involved. At first glance, David de Gea appears to be the most expensive player in the list (around £18m), but apart from him, Alderweireld and Payet, no one else cost their respective teams more than 10 million pounds. More than half the squad was bought for l million pounds or less!- Kane, Bellerin, Mahrez, Morgan, Rose and Vardy

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GIF Jamie Vardy red card vs West Ham 2016 | Vardy v Ogbonna second yellow by referee Moss

This Jamie Vardy red card v West Ham (GIF BELOW) was a major talking point in Leicester’s fixture against the Hammers on 17 April, 2016. Vardy was given a yellow card by referee Jonathan Moss and because it was his second yellow of the game, he was sent off. Opinion differed on social media as to whether it was a dive or a penalty and whether or not Vardy deserved his marching orders

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Leicester’s fairy tale run so far- a look at how the Foxes have progressed through the season

Leicester City have been this season’s fairy tale story. 5000/1 outsiders to win the league at the beginning of the season, they now stand on the cusp of a historic triumph, with the likes of Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea and Arsenal all left behind in the dust. The Foxes are seven points ahead of second place Spurs with six games to go in the current league season. They also seem to have a decent set of fixtures- Sunderland, West Ham, Swansea, Man Utd, Everton and Chelsea are their remaining ones. Should they lose to United and Chelsea and win everything else, they’ll still be crowned Champions come May

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