The Premier League season in numbers
Top Defender
Ian Evatt, Blackpool
A busy boy as the Tangerines' dream has been peeled away. He has made 81 tackles, 428 clearances, 44 blocks and 43 interceptions to sit at the top of the defenders' league. Fulham's Brede Hangeland is next-best when these key areas are combined, with 58 tackles, 418 clearances, 38 blocks and 78 interceptions.
Pass master
Paul Scholes, Manchester United
He may be thinking of taking up a less stressful pastime, but another extraordinary season's work shows why Sir Alex Ferguson would love Scholes, 36, to take his career into an 18th top-flight season. No wonder Rio Ferdinand calls him SatNav.
Passes 1,273 on target 1,146 success 90%
The iron man
Martin Skrtel, Liverpool - Leighton Baines, Everton
There are 17 ever-presents in the Premier League this season, 14 of whom started every game. Nine of them are outfield players, but only two of those, Everton's Leighton Baines and Liverpool Martin Skrtel, have played every minute of every match, an amazing 3,330 minutes.
The Premier League ever presents
Aston Villa: Friedel, Downing
Birmingham: Carr, Foster, Johnson
Blackpool: Evatt
Bolton: Davies
Chelsea: Cech, Cole, Malouda
Everton: Distin, Baines, Howard
Fulham: Hughes
Liverpool: Reina, Skrtel
Newcastle: Gutierrez
Major obstacle
Joe Hart, Manchester City
England finally have a goalkeeper to be proud of. Not only has he saved 105 of 138 shots faced (76 per cent) and conceded only 33 goals, but he has dropped just three of 62 attempted catches and made 27 punches. Second-best Ben Foster, kept very busy at Birmingham, proved he should be Hart's England understudy by saving 164 of the 217 shots he faced (75 per cent) and making 58 catches - but he doesn't want the job.
Action man
Matt, Taylor Bolton
The wide player ran further in one match - Bolton's 4-3 defeat by Blackpool - than any other player in the last two months of the season, covering 9.23 miles. Four more Bolton players ran more than 8.5 miles in the same game as Blackpool ran them ragged.