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Alternative end-of-year football awards: Who was the best player? Who had the biggest meltdown?


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Pep Guardiola, Jamie Vardy, Chris Wilder

The end of 2019 is almost upon us, and what a year in football it has been.

Manchester City won the Premier League title for a second consecutive year, Liverpool became European and world champions and Jamie Vardy turned into Benjamin Button to produce one of his most prolific 12 months of his career.

So, as this time is usually a period to reflect upon the good and the bad of the year gone by, we here at BBC Sport consider some alternative football awards.

From the best player to the biggest meltdown, here's our completely unofficial and by no means deadly serious list.

Premier League player of the year - Jamie Vardy

Jamie Vardy has been a player reborn in 2019.

By the end of last year, Vardy's goalscoring record looked every bit that of a player heading into his twilight years as he reached Christmas with six goals in the first half of the 2018-19 season.

However, this year he has been back to his very best. He has scored 29 goals - 12 in the first half of the year and 17 in the second to date.

There is no doubt that the arrival of Brendan Rodgers has sparked Vardy's revival. Since the Northern Irishman's appointment on 26 February, Vardy has failed to score in only 12 games.

He's also managed to do all of this while having to suffer taunts from opposition fans due to the spat between his wife Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney.

There's been some big individual performances from a variety of players in 2019 but there's little doubt that it's... Jamie Vardy's year.

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