By Jamie Spencer After a quite sensational calendar year, Declan Rice found himself on the list of 12 finalists up for 2023’s The Best FIFA Men’s Player award alongside superstars of the game. During the relevant voting period – 19 December 2022 to 20 August 2023 inclusive – Rice famously became the first West Ham United captain since Bobby Moore to lift a European trophy when the Hammers won the second ever Europa Conference League. He then became the most expensive British player of all time with a £105m transfer to Arsenal in July and had started excellently. Whether that made him a contend…