Son Heung-min, Lionel Messi and the Manchester United dressing room - The Warm-Up’s end of season awards

A special treat for you today. The best, the worst, the nicest, the funniest, the most inexplicable and the least forgettable: here are the Warm-Up's end of season awards for 2021/22. We were going to call them The Warmies but in the end we decided not to.

Ad/> Player of the Season — Son Heung-min TransfersPogba rejected City move over fears life would be made 'unbearable' by United fans — Report17 HOURS AGO Amazing what happens when Lionel Messi has an off year. All of a sudden there are about 20 or 30 right answers to this question, each of them with a pretty compelling case. So you can swap your favourite right answer in here, and we won't mind a bit.

Our right answer is Son Heung-min. The obvious comparison here is with Mo Salah, who sits one goal ahead of Son in the Premier League scoring charts. We've gone for the Spurs player partly out of a sense of wilful perversity, but mostly because of the context.

Salah has spent all season playing for one of the very best teams in the world, in a system designed to make the very most of his prodigious gifts. Son, by contrast, spent the first half of the season playing for a coach who seemed to be actively working against the very concept of goals, then the second playing for a much better coach who nevertheless tries to resign every couple of weeks. And he doesn't take penalties, which everybody knows aren't real goals.

Playing for Liverpool: we're not saying it's easier, but we are saying it's a good deal more sensible. /> Goal of the Season — Sam Kerr Again, you'll have your faves and your reasons. But were any of them as cool, as instinctive and ridiculous, as this? In a must-win title decider, no less.