It is never easy to pick the team of a calendar year because it is open to recency bias with achievements from the opening six months, the previous season, less fresh in the memory.
And that is doubly true at the end of 2022 owing to the World Cup concluding less than a fortnight ago and some names who were hardly on the radar during 21/22 producing performances that will live long in the memory.
So with the risk of focusing too heavily on Qatar in mind, Mirror Football has selected its most impactful Premier League XI of the calendar year.
