Season review
With the dust just about settled on the most engrossing Premier League season in living memory, skysports.com's football desk look back over the past 10 months to deliver their verdicts. We celebrate the best and condemn the worst in our review of a memorable 2011/12 campaign
Thursday 17 May 2012 12:33, UK
Our football desk look back at a fascinating 2011/12 campaign to deliver their verdicts.
When the curtain was drawn on the most memorable Premier League season in living memory most of us retreated to a darkened room to take it all in. Sergio Ageuro's almost surreal late, late show at the Etihad seemed strangely in sync with all that had passed before it over 10 months that housed all that is good, bad and ugly but always captivating about English football. Slowly but surely, one-by-one, the football desk have shaken themselves down and edged out of said darkened room to deliver their end of season best and worst lists. Have your say on all of our selections and leave your own nominations by filling in the feedback form at the foot of each article. Game of the season The 2011/12 campaign will almost certainly go down as one of the Premier League's most engrossing and that's in no small part due to the number of high-scoring matches involving our top clubs. It seems the days of dour stalemates when the big boys go head-to-head are out of vogue, with the tactics book thrown out of the dressing room window. Let's enjoy it while it lasts. Here are our top selections. Goal of the season: From Papiss Cisse's wonder strike to Hatem ben Arfa's mazy dribble to that Sergio Aguero effort at the Etihad, there's been no shortage of sensational goals this season. Click here to read our top picks. Player of the season: It's no surprise Manchester dominates when it goes to deciding the campaign's top player. Robin van Persie is the only nominee not to play his football up north but has already proven pretty adept at picking up individual honours in lesser awards dished out earlier this month. Have your say here. Young player of the season: Kyle Walker won the PFA equivalent for this award and is again in contention here. The Tottenham full-back, currently nursing Euro 2012 injury heartache, has indeed enjoyed a fine campaign but we've picked five other rising stars that should run him close. Manager of the season: The top boss gong divided our football desk perhaps more than any other. Several of our writers campaigned for those coaches that had overachieved, while there were those that said delivering silverware is the ultimate achievement for any manager - regardless of the resources at their disposal. Have your say on our picks here. Unsung hero of the season: While the likes of Van Persie and Rooney are invariably the
