Henry Wins Gunnerrific Player of the Year

27. Nov, 2006 9 Comments

Arsenal captain Thierry Henry was named the first Gunnerrific Footballer of the Year on Monday, beating out Champion’s League winner Ronaldinho and International teammate Zinedine Zidane.

The 29-year-old striker, who captained Arsenal to a thrilling Champion’s League final in May of this year, won the prize with one vote from the author of Gunnerrific, narrowly beating out all other competition finalists.

Henry is the first Frenchman to win the award since the prize’s inception earlier today.

Thierry Henry’s accomplishments of 2006 outweighed the competitors in all areas. In club play, he captained his domestic club to the Champion’s League final only to lose a man down in the last 10 minutes. He also helped his young Arsenal squad rise to 4th place at the end of the season, ensuring further Champion’s League opportunities.

Henry also helped France to the finals of the World Cup, only to see another dramatic defeat in a penalty shoot-out.

On top of team performance, Henry was also the leading goal-scorer in the English Premier League in the 2005-06 season.

Thierry Henry rose to fame during his time at Arsenal at the turn of the century, playing alongside one of the strongest English teams to grace the premiership.

Thierry Henry Wins Gunnerrific Player of the Year

In other news, Sepp Blatter, grand poobah of FIFA, announced that video replays will never be considered as long as he is in charge of the organization. Am I the only one hoping that he is quickly dethroned? Citing that any slow down in play would hurt the game, he argues that this technology should never be used.

Has anyone done testing or research into how long it could take to overturn a ruling? I’m thinking somewhere on the order of 5-15 seconds. I don’t understand where the problem is.

Also, Fabio Cunt-avarro won the European Footballer of the Year award. I’ve no idea why. Just who are these ‘journalists’ that vote in this competition? It’s surprisingly organized by a French publication that must have no national allegiance for it’s own players. Ridiculous.

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9 Responses to “Henry Wins Gunnerrific Player of the Year”

  1. Frank 28. Nov, 2006 at 6:20 am

    Excellent news well done Thierry and as no journalists or FA/UEFA/FIFA officials were involved in the voting it was probably less biased than the Ballon’D'Or. You should probably consider some non-Arsenal players but not for three or four years, so we get a good run.

  2. Brandon 28. Nov, 2006 at 10:04 am

    I wish I could have been at the ceremony when he received this award. Long overdue!

  3. Joel 28. Nov, 2006 at 4:24 pm

    I wonder if he is wearing pants…

  4. rahim 11. May, 2007 at 9:19 am

    sl thierry jvoulai seulemen te dire ke jtd et pour moi té meilleur ke ronaldinho tou lmé autre joueur,et la seule raison sé ke tu jou mieu ke et je sui ten fan depui 2003 et je peu tassurer ke je ne changerai pa de joueur pcq ten style me plai et surtt le tir enroulé

  5. guy 03. Jul, 2007 at 5:09 am

    slt henry,je suis l’un de tes fans et je voudrais correspondre avec toi.voici mon e-mail:jojo_gulles@hotmail.com

  6. donat 24. Jul, 2007 at 9:46 am

    henry , is you my fevorit playing…!

  7. donat , I love you henry... 24. Jul, 2007 at 9:51 am

    henry , I am from kosova in prishtina , I am tifoz for you , com on in kosova , in prishtina … I love … I love and france , bye bye?!

  8. donat , I love you henry... 24. Jul, 2007 at 9:54 am

    my e-mail is donatby@hotmail.com . tell me henry … bye bye thiery henry I love you

  9. donat , I love you henry... 24. Jul, 2007 at 10:00 am

    thiery henry , tellllllll mee okey