TTU Awards
TTU Awards 2010/2011
TTU Awards: Team of the Season
It’s probably fair to say that this website has a natural inclination towards the underdog, and the winners of our inaugural TTU awards reflect that: among the victorious have been Reading, Peterborough and Derby, but the top two, Newcastle and West Brom, have barely been mentioned. To take it one step further, cynics might argue that in picking Blackpool as our Team of the Season we’re sentimentally flaunting …
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Manager of the Season
The events of Saturday May 22 were hugely influential in deciding the destination of this award. Had the goals of Michael Chopra and Joe Ledley decided that afternoon’s play off final, then Blackpool’s season, and that of their guiding light, would perhaps have been consigned to the plucky runners up category. Brett Ormerod put paid to such insignificance with a late first half winner and as the Tangerines held on, …
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Player of the Season
In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, a man called Adam leaves a verdant paradise after his partner bites into an apple promising tantalizing greater knowledge. Unlike the biblical story on which the puritan poet’s great epic is based, the decision is painted in decidedly ambiguous terms: is it better to live out one’s days in comfortable surrounds or chance one’s arm at something more life-affirming?
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Young Player of the Season
After a barnstorming first season in the Championship, Reading’s Gylfi Sigurðsson is the recipient of TTU’s Young Player of the Season award. It was a funny old year for the Madejski boys as new manager and Great New Hope Brendan Rodgers ushered in a new brand of football only to be shown the exit after a mere six months in charge, but Sigurðsson’s athleticism and touch of quality in the …