Mackem demolition wins LMA “Performance of the Month” award for Hughton.
Posted on November 4th, 2010 | 42 Comments |
Hughton will be awarded the League Manager’s Association’s “Performance of the Month” award for last Sunday’s 5-1 victory over Sunderland. The five man adjudication panel consisting of LMA Chairman, Howard Wilkinson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Joe Royle, Dave Bassett and Barry Fry, decided to give the award to Hughton, and he will receive a specially engraved crystal football in a presentation to be shown on “Sky Soccer Saturday” on 6th November 2010. This award comes in the wake of recent speculation from the press that Hughton was on the verge of losing his job for not winning enough games at home so far this season.
Sunderland have recently had pretensions of stealing the mantle from the Magpies as the North East’s premier footballing side, particularly after Newcastle’s relegation from the Premiership last season and huge injections of cash from American billionaire owner, Ellis Short. However, they were given a very harsh footballing lesson on Sunday, with Sunderland manager, Steve Bruce saying of the match:
“It’s been a disastrous afternoon. We have to hold our hands up and say we were well beaten.”
well done chris