Performance of the season: Luis Suárez

Liverpool v Norwich City, December 4
Suárez scored a record 10 Premier League goals in December
Suárez scored a record 10 Premier League goals in December
ANDREW POWELL

The redemption of Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz was one of the most compelling narratives of the Premier League season.

After spending the opening matches on the sidelines serving out the rest of a ten-match ban for an unsavoury - in every respect - biting incident involving Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic, the Uruguay striker swept almost all before him.

In a season that contained 1,052 league goals, with Manchester City and Liverpool reaching three figures, Suarez’s personal achievements stood apart. The 27-year-old leaves for the World Cup finals having equalled the record of 31 goals in a 38-game Premier League season set in 1995-96 by Alan Shearer and 2007-08 by Cristiano Ronaldo. Yet it took him just 33 games and there was no surprise when he was