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Bale a worthy winner of PFA awards

Gareth Bale's significance to Tottenham is obvious on a weekly basis, says chief football writer Phil McNulty

Bale wins PFA player of year award

• Winger wins main award and young player of year award • Bale beats off challenge of Van Persie and Suárez Tottenham's Gareth Bale has been named the Professional Football Association's player and young player of the year for 2012-13, becoming only the third person to clinch the…

Little wins first women's PFA award

Arsenal Ladies midfielder Kim Little is named the first Professional Footballers' Association Women's Player of the Year.

Arsenal 1 Manchester United 1 match report: Timid Arsenal remind Robin van Persie why he left

If the plan was to psyche out Robin van Persie with sheer hostility, or to fill his head with endless accusations of betrayal then, quite frankly, someone at the Emirates forgot to send the memo. If it was the proverbial cauldron of hatred you were expecting then try elsewhere: a different stadium,…

Reading 0 QPR 0 match report: Grim ending as Dead Men shuffle off without a fight

Reading and Queens Park Rangers slithered out of the Premier League yesterday, neither apparently able to muster the energy to survive. A victory would have kept one of them hanging on for a while longer, like a condemned criminal on Death Row, but a defeat or a draw spelt doom. They perished in…

Chelsea 2 Swansea City 0 match report: It's a stroll for Chelsea as Frank Lampard closes in on Bobby Tambling

After being stranded on 200 Chelsea goals for six weeks, Frank Lampard moved within one of Bobby Tambling's club record on Sunday with the second goal of a very comfortable defeat of Swansea City.

Ron Vlaar: We must stay up to stave off job losses, says Aston Villa captain ahead of Sunderland game

Ron Vlaar knows how far-reaching the effects of relegation will be upon Aston Villa if they cannot drag themselves away from the Premier League's bottom three.

Manchester City 2 West Ham United 1 match report: Lescott ponders leaving City for sake of England career

Manchester City's Joleon Lescott has declared that he does not feel threatened by John Terry's ambition to play for England again and that the Chelsea player has not been playing enough for his club to be a shoo-in for Roy Hodgson.

Everton 1 Fulham 0 match report: Leighton Baines 'glad' to see Luis Suarez banned for Mersey derby with Liverpool

Leighton Baines says Everton are glad to be facing a Liverpool side without Luis Suarez in next week's Merseyside derby. The Reds may have smashed six past Newcastle on Saturday without their banned striker but Baines still believes they are a different prospect in the Uruguayan's absence.