The 2011-12 Dream Team Trivia Quiz

Answer: Manchester City

All four clubs have players in the top eleven (the dream team) but the 2011-12 champions sent the most. Those four Manchester City players are goalkeeper Joe Hart (166 points), defender Vincent Kompany (145 points), attacking midfielder David Silva (184 points) and striker Sergio (Kun) Aguero (211 points).

Answer: Fulham

Fulham's excellent American Clint Dempsey (209 points) is the player. After the end of the season Dempsey, the first American to score a Premiership hat trick and to reach 50 Premiership goals, moved on to Tottneham Hotspur.

Of the incorrect options, West Ham did not play in the Premiership in 2011-12 and Wigan Athletic is not even a London club. Queens Park Rangers is the only relevant option, but they were engaged in fierce relegation battles, and stayed up despite losing dramatically 2-3 to Manchester City in the last game of the season (after leading 2-1 with 4 minutes to go), however none of their players managed to clinch a dream team spot.

Answer: Israeli

The only Israeli who played in the Premier League in 2011-12 was Yossi Benayoun (on loan from Chelsea to Arsenal). However, he was a sub and did not score remotely enough to be included in the dream team (only 59 points).

The Belgian representative is Manchester City's classy defender Vincent Kompany (145 points), the Argentinian is Manchester City's lethal striker Sergio (Kun) Aguero (211 points) and the Welshman is Tottenham Hotspur's flashy midfielder Gareth Bale (195 points).

Answer: 0

Despite winning those titles, Chelsea's league season has been pretty mediocre which was reflected in the failure of any of its players to score enough points to make it to the dream team.

Answer: Kyle Walker

Tottenham Hotspur's consistent young defender made it with 140 points, much to the surprise of many. Manchester United's Patrice Evra was the top defender (159 points), but he's French.

The other three Englishmen were Manchester City's goalkeeper Joe Hart (166 points), Arsenal's attacking midfielder Theo Walcott (169 points) and the ever-present Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney (230 points).

Answer: Robin van Persie

2011-12 will be distinctly remembered as Robin van Persie's season. Arsenal's Dutch striker (transferred to Manchester United after that superb season) scored a mammoth tally of 30 goals and delivered as many as 13 assists. Along with 45 bonus points, he ended the season with 269 points.

Answer: Leighton Baines

Baines, a consistent Fantasy Football asset whose attacking properties coupled with the fact that he was the regular Everton penalty, corner and free kick taker, made him a very attractive choice, despite his high price. In 2011-12 he scored 134 points, just 6 off Kyle Walker's dream team spot.

Answer: Luis Suarez

Chelsea's Mata (162 points), Manchester United's Nani (157 points) and Sunderland's Sessègnon (161 points), as well as a few other players, all scored more than the lowest scoring top defender (Kyle Walker with 140 points) and would have entered if it wasn't for that policy.

Suarez scored a good 136 points, which was not enough by any standard. An 8 match ban sanctioned by the FA as a result of racial abuse of Manchester United's defender Patrice Evra, who ironically did make it to the dream team, eliminated his chances of doing so.

Answer: True

The 11 members of the dream team were 5 players from London - Arsenal (2), Tottenham Hotspur (2) and Fulham (1) and 6 players from Manchester - City (4) and United (2).

Answer: Yellow

The only club which could have contributed a yellow jersey was Norwich City. However, none of its players made it to the 2011-12 dream team.