10 players you'd forgotten were in a PFA Premier League Team of the Year

Shaun Wright-Phillips

Look, nobody makes the PFA Premier League Team of the Year by accident. When people in 10 years’ time gaze upon Wes Morgan’s place in the all-hallowed XI of 2015/16, they may wonder if it’s the same guy who didn't look up to much in his first top-flight season. But of course, picking him made perfect sense at the time – and it was absolutely deserved.

And so it is with these 10 players, officially voted as the best in their position that season, only to be remembered by history as apparently being footballers at the time. We’re not saying that selecting them in a PFA Premier League Team of the Year was wrong, as such; we’re just recalling that Crash won 2006’s Oscar for Best Picture.

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Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.