Chick's team of the year

Franck Sauzee was Chick's early season favourite

BBC Scotland football correspondent Chick Young picks his Scottish Premier League team of the season.

If Henrik Larsson ever gets fed up counting his millions, he could start up in the board game industry.

After all he is already playing Monopoly with the player of the year awards.

He picked up the players' trophy at the weekend and you cannot get a bet against him making it the double when the vote of the Scottish Football Writers' Association is announced in a fortnight.

In both cases it will be judged no real contest.

I have to admit that for a long part of the season I was campaigning for Franck Sauzee...but he was blown away by Henrik's goal rush.

In any case they are both automatic choices in my team of the season...which leaves nine places to fill. Allow me to add the rest in 4-4-2 formation.

Didier Agathe has been a bargain buy

In goal my vote goes to Antti Niemi who performed so well that Rangers fans were scratching their heads wondering why on earth he was allowed to leave for just £400,000...if at all.

The Hearts man gets the nod just ahead of Stefan Klos who performed consistently in a miserable season for Rangers.

His fingertips had them hanging on to their title longer than might have been.

Sauzee is the sweeper in my back four and is joined by Barry Nicholson of Dunfermline who already has Ibrox fans questioning why he too was allowed to walk through the Ibrox exit, especially when his position is one in which Dick Advocaat is having problems.

His performance for Scotland in Poland topped off a wonderful season.

At left back I would go for Ulrik Laursen of Hibs, a fine example of the ability of Alex McLeish to discover previously unknown talent. He is strong, athletic...oh yes, and he has ability.

Complete the back four with Johann Mjallby who has had a superb season.

He is a born-again player under Martin O'Neill, maybe the best example of the manager's man management technique.

Middle of the park. From right to left Didier Agathe of Celtic, Russel Latapy of Hibs, Barry Ferguson of Rangers and Alan Thompson of Celtic.

Barry Ferguson has shone in a bad Rangers team

O'Neill should have been wearing a mask when he mugged Hibs to take Agathe for £50,000...and allowing him to escape was maybe the one mistake Alex McLeish made all season.

He's electric...and once he learns to cross the ball he could be world class.

The irony is of course that on the Parkhead coaching staff in John Robertson they have the best crosser of a ball this country has ever produced.

His Parkhead team mate Thompson CAN cross the ball, but I rate him an all-round gifted individual.

In the middle area Barry Ferguson has been one of the few rays of light in the Ibrox season of darkness and I include him with all due respect to Paul Lambert and Neil Lennon.

Claudio Caniggia has been a revelation

And of course it would be impossible to ignore the claims of Latapy. He is a delight to watch.

But it breaks my heart not to include Ricky Gillies of St Mirren.

I also acknowledge the claims of Momo Sylla of St Johnstone but the trouble with him is identifying exactly where he plays!

Gillies deserves the mention because his goalscoring rate for a midfield player in a team struggling against relegation is astonishing.

Alongside Larsson up front it would have to be Claudio Caniggia who has lit up not just Dundee, but has triggered pictures of the Scottish game around the world.

The manager of this lot? Martin O'Neill. Winning the double - possibly the treble - in your first season tends to get you that gig.

So the team of the year is:

Niemi (Hearts), Nicholson (Dunfermline), Mjallby (Celtic), Sauzee, Laursen (both Hibs); Agathe (Celtic), Latapy (Hibs), Ferguson (Rangers), Thompson (Celtic); Larsson (Celtic) Caniggia (Dundee).