Source: Liverpool_Echo
DAVID PRENTICE: Everton FC thoughts already turn to next season
CRITICS always complain that it's the PFA Awards which are handed out too early in the season. Perhaps Everton officials may wish to reconsider the timing of their end of season awards, too.[LNB]Steven Pienaar adorned the cover of the matchday programme at Goodison Park yesterday, proudly holding his Player of the Season title.[LNB]No-one even hinted at doing anything against Portsmouth to compromise the integrity of that award.[LNB]But the Goal of the Season decision would have come under serious scrutiny.[LNB]Not the recipient.[LNB]Diniyar Bilyaletdinov would still have carried off the handsome trophy. But yesterday's sublime strike - seconds from the end of a typically end of season snoozefest - surely eclipsed his Goal of the Season winning effort against Manchester United.[LNB] Show Caption Some fans had already taken the decision to head for the watering holes of Walton when the fourth official held his board up showing only four minutes remained of Everton's season.[LNB]Their embarrassment possibly wasn't quite as acute as the Croatian referee who showed a yellow card to Mladost FC defender Goran Tunjic for 'simulation' last week - the red-faced ref quickly realising tragic Tunjic had died of a heart attack - but when those fans caught up with Match of the Day later in the evening it wouldn't have been far off.[LNB]Bilyaletdinov's celebrations showed that the strike meant plenty to him.
