Liverpool: Mo Salah declares 'it's revenge time' ahead of Real Madrid clash

Mohamed Salah has won the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year award for the second time in his career.

The Liverpool star has been in Ballon d’Or-contending form for great swathes of a season that could see the Egyptian get his hands on the Premier League and Champions League trophies.

Throw in the Carabao Cup victory as well as a potential FA Cup triumph and you’ll quickly get the impression that the FWA prize might be the first of many garlanding Salah’s 2021/22 campaign.

While, yes, the likes of Joao Cancelo and Rodri have also been in scintillating form, you’d be hard pressed to argue that there’s been a better Premier League player over the last eight months than Salah.

At the end of the day, the Egyptian superstar is on course to win a third Premier League Golden Boot in just five seasons with 22 strikes, as well as 13 assists to boot, on his record.

And with journalists across the country giving Salah the gong that he deserves, the Liverpool star was able to make the first of what will surely be many awards ceremony appearances.

Having helped inspire the Reds to a Champions League final on Tuesday night, the 29-year-old was decked out in a suave suit to collect the award that he so richly deserved in person.

And what happened in between Liverpool’s comeback at Villarreal and Salah getting his hands on silverware? Oh, just some game between Real Madrid and Manchester City, blah, blah, blah.

Ok, jokes aside, it was inevitable that Salah’s public appearance at the FWA awards would lead to at least some questioning about the fact that Liverpool had learnt their Champions League final opponents.

Plus, it just so happens that Salah got what he wished for with the Reds winger having said in his