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Patrice Evra has voted for Luis Suarez as his PFA Player of the Year.<\/p>\n
The Manchester United defender\u00a0has chosen his arch-enemy from Liverpool for one of football’s most prestigious individual honours despite the ugly race-row incident between the pair in October 2011 which saw Suarez banned for eight games and fined \u00a340,000.<\/p>\n
A dressing-room insider at Old Trafford said: “Suarez is an outstanding footballer, but no-one at United could believe it when Patrice voted for him.<\/p>\n
“It shows the measure of the man that he didn’t allow what happened between them to cloud his judgement.<\/p>\n
“He clearly doesn’t bear a grudge.<\/p>\n
“He was named as one of six after being named in the six nominees after scoring 29 goals to shoot Liverpool towards an unexpected tilt at the title.<\/p>\n
Suarez’s ugly clash with Evra came during a game at Anfield, when the Frenchman claimed he had been racially abused by Suarez.<\/p>\n
The Liverpool striker failed with a plea that it was a misunderstanding caused by “cultural differences” when an FA disciplinary committee found him not to be a credible witness.<\/p>\n
And the relationship between the two players deteriorated further when Suarez refused to shake Evra\u2019s hand before United played Liverpool at Old Trafford in February 2012.<\/p>\n
It is the second season running that Evra has voted for Suarez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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