Or no longer it is a hat trick for Mohamed Salah after the Liverpool forward was voted Britain’s ‘Footballer of the Year’ for a story-tying third time.
The accolade is handed out by the Football Writers Association (FWA). First awarded in 1948, it is the oldest individual soccer award in the world. Salah previously obtained the title in 2018 and 2022.
Arsenal great Thierry Henry is the only other player to have captured it three times.
With 28 goals and 18 assists, Egyptian-born fan-favourite Salah topped the Premier League this season and played a key characteristic in Liverpool successful the title for the 2nd time in five years.
The FWA said Salah obtained 90 p.c of the votes cast by more than 900 members, making it the “greatest successful margin this century.”
Salah’s Liverpool teammate Virgil van Dijk was 2nd and Newcastle striker Alexander Isak was third.
Arsenal striker Alessia Russo obtained this year’s females’s award.
