Patrick
Bamford has been named Sky Bet Championship Player of the Year at a lavish
Football League awards ceremony in central London.
Bamford, who is on loan at Middlesbrough from Chelsea received the accolade
on Sunday night.
The 21-year-old has been in prolific form for the Teessiders this season
with 17 goals in 37 games and has a conversion rate of over 20 per cent. He
has also created 26 chances for his team-mates.
The League One Player of the Year Award went to Joe Garner.
The Preston striker has scored 21 goals in 34 games so far this season and
also won Football League goal of the year with his sublime effort in the
first leg of North End's semi-final play-off tie against Rotherham almost 12
months ago.
Bury's Danny Mayor won the League Two player of the Year award after scoring
eight goals this season while Dele Alli, back on loan at MK Dons after
signing for Tottenham in January, won the league's Young Player of the Year
award.
The midfielder, who will hope to force his way into Mauricio Pochettino's
plans in the summer, has scored 16 goals from midfield for the League One
promotion-chasers.
Leicester City coach Kevin Phillips received the "Sir Tom Finney" Award.
The award is presented to a player who has had an outstanding career in
league competitions, and was renamed permanently in honour of the Preston
and England legend following his death in 2014.
Phillips retired as a player at the end of last season after scoring 272
goals in 660 senior appearances in a glittering career which took in spells
at Watford, Sunderland, Southampton, West Brom, Blackpool, Birmingham and
Crystal Palace below the top flight.
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