5 of the best players who have never made the PFA team of the year

#2 Robbie Fowler

One of the best Premier League centre-forwards

The 6th highest scorer in Premier League history, Robbie Fowler can consider himself very unfortunate to have played in something of a golden era of English strikers. Having just made 26 appearances for the Three Lions, Fowler was competing with the likes of Alan Shearer, Andy Cole, Les Ferdinand, Teddy Sheringham and Ian Wright, which somewhat explains his absence from the PFA team of the year. In a decade and a half, the Englishman would go onto score 163 premier league goals for the likes of Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester City.

Yet the 2-time young player of the year would consider it as a great misfortune to not have made it to the PFA Team of the year. During the 1994/95 season, at just 19-years of age, Fowler would plunder 25 goals in the league finishing just behind Alan Shearer (34 goals) in the top scorers' list, yet Jurgen Klinsmann (21 goals) and Chris Sutton (15 goals) would make it into the Team of the year.

The following season, Fowler would better his tally (28 goals), again finishing second only to Shearer (31 goals) yet Newcastle’s Les Ferdinand (25 goals) would go on to claim a place in the PFA team of the year.