{"id":16324,"date":"2009-04-30T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16324"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"gomez-takes-the-player-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/04\/30\/gomez-takes-the-player-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Gomez Takes The Player Of The Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gomez walked away with the accolade &#8211; previously won by Leon Britton and Jason Scotland &#8211; after the closest vote yet amongst the supporters.<\/p>\n<p>He fought off a strong challenge from Britton himself to take the award by just a handful of votes.&nbsp;&nbsp; The award capped a memorable season at the Swans where the team has played a brand of football rarely seen before in these parts.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez was just one of nine winners on an evening attended by 570 people and was the final award of the ceremony hosted by Kevin Johns.<\/p>\n<p>There was consolation for Leon Britton who was named away player of the year as well as players&#39; player of the year whilst Ferrie Bodde&#39;s wonder strike at Preston was enough to see him voted on the night as the scorer of goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Scotland (no surprises) was crowned top goalscorer whilst Joe Allen was the only real winner of the young player of the year award.<\/p>\n<p>In addition there was a special achievement award for Alan Tate, clubman of the year for Marcos Painter and the Swansea Supporters Trust Lifetime Achievement award went to Mel Nurse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gomez walked away with the accolade &#8211; previously won by Leon Britton and Jason Scotland &#8211; after the closest vote yet amongst the supporters. He fought off a strong challenge from Britton himself to take the award by just a handful of votes.&nbsp;&nbsp; The award capped a memorable season at the Swans where the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}