Arsenal’s Player of the Season award was something of a damp squib this year. It is difficult to think of any player that was consistently excellent throughout the campaign. Mesut Özil, in third place, was not consistent by his own exalted standards. Nacho Monreal was second on the podium for the commendable, yet hardly revelatory achievement of dropping a season of 7 and 8 out of 10 performances. The eventual winner, Aaron Ramsey, only managed 36 games and there was probably a large element of ‘recency bias’ in the vote (much in the same way that the player of the month for August is nearly always won by a new signing). Ramsey had an excellent spring, but it’s unlikely he would...
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