Adel Taarabt Named Football League Player Of The Year

Queens Park Rangers picked up the youngster but for a long time couldn’t really figure out what to do with him. Taarabt is clearly a brilliant player on the attack, capable of things very few other Championsip-level players would even dream of doing, he’s a defensive liability, prone to petulance and trying to do too much on his own. That he refuses to track back to do heavy lifting on defence has galled many of his previous managers, but Neil Warnock has accepted Taarabt’s negative attributes and instead let the Morrocan play the way he wants to - and he’s been paid back in a big way:

Other award-winners today include Ipswich striker Conor Wickham as Football League Young Player of the Year, while Craig Mackail-Smith and Ryan Lowe won Player of the Year honours for League One and League Two respectively.