Clarets Mad name their Player of the Season

Last updated : 29 April 2003 By Tony Scholes

Graham Branch

As last season the top player has been chosen by those who have voted in our Man of the Match polls for home league games during the season. Some of the matches, such as last Saturday’s, have been so ridiculous that we didn’t insult you with a poll.

In the end we used a total of 18 out of the 23 matches and Graham Branch was voted Man of the Match on five occasions, with Robbie Blake in 2nd place with four and Gareth Taylor next with three.

Branchy becomes the second player to win our award, it was Arthur Gnohere who won it last year. In fact Arthur won our Goal of the Season as well. You can now vote for this season’s goal award over the next couple of days, the poll will remain until midnight on Thursday.

His top performances have been even more remarkable for the fact that they have all come when he has been playing in a defensive position. A target for the boo boys again earlier in the season he has come through that and fully deserves his award.

Last night the Supporters’ Clubs had their Annual ‘Let’s see how quickly the players can get away this year’ Awards Night.

The winners of these awards were as follows:

Accrington Clarets

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

Young Player of the Year

Matt O’Neill

Goal of the Season

Dean West v Stoke (a)

Rossendale Clarets

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

Young Player of the Year

Dimitri Papadopoulos

Squad Player of the Year

Graham Branch

Burnley FSC

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

Away Player of the Year

Robbie Blake

Young Player of the Year

Matt O’Neill

Goal of the Season

Dean West v Stoke (a)

Boundary Clarets

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

Young Player of the Year

Damien Hindle

Goal of the Season

Dean West v Stoke (a)

Shooters Arms Clarets

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

Colne Clarets

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

Goal of the Season

Gareth Taylor v Wolves(h)

London Clarets

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

CISA

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

Earby Clarets

Player of the Year

Graham Branch

Gareth Taylor

Central Lancs Clarets

Player of the Year

Gareth Taylor

Most Improved Player

Graham Branch

Best Newcomer

Driss Diallo

Young Player of the Year

Matt O’Neill

Goal of the Season

Dean West v Stoke(a)

South West Clarets

Player of the year

Gareth Taylor