Luis Suarez, Named PFA Player Of The Year

Luis Suarez has won England’s Professional Footballers’ Association’s Player of the Year award.

This time last year the Uruguay international was starting a 10-match ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic.

But now Suarez has been chosen by his fellow top-flight professionals in England as the outstanding player in the Premier League after spearheading Liverpool’s title bid.

Suarez received the award during a ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House hotel after flying down from Liverpool following a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea at Anfield that dented the Merseysiders’ challenge for a first English title in the Premier League era.

The 27-year-old Suarez has scored 30 league goals in 31 appearances, despite his ban for biting Ivanovic carrying over into the start of this season.