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Forward and club captain Jarrod Bowen has been named as West Ham United's Player of the Year by the readers of KUMB.com - for the second season in succession.

Nearly 10,000 votes were cast this year via our website and social media channels by Hammers fans in ten categories, to determine the winners in this year's 28th Annual KUMB Awards.




And taking the grand prize this year once again was club captain Bowen, who narrowly pipped Aaron Wan-Bissaka - the club's choice for Player of the Season - to first place.

Bowen celebrates a double this year having also landed the Goal of the Season award, for his effort against Nottingham Forest in the 2-1 home defeat last month. He also grabbed the runners-up spot this year in recognition of his header at Arsenal - the winning goal - back in February.

That unexpected win at The Emirates, which went some way to scuttling Arsenal's plans of lifting a first Premier League title in more than 20 years, was also voted Most Memorable Match; the 2-0 win at Newcastle coming in second.

And while Wan-Bissaka was pipped to the post by Bowen for the Player of the Year award, he can take solace in having won this year's Best Signing award while grabbing a second runners-up spot in the Most Improved Player category, which was won by Academy graduate Oli Scarles.




Scarles was your overwhelming pick for Young Player of the Year, taking seven in every ten votes, whilst your Most Memorable Moment of the season was Niclas Fullkrug's post-match rant following West Ham's disappointing draw at home to relegated Southampton.

Elsewhere Paul Walker took the KUMB Writer's Award for the FOURTH year in a row, while the FA were the recipients of our most unwanted gong - the Hackett of the Year award - for their dallying over Lucas Paqueta's various charges, with the case now running into its second year.

Finally, the winner of this year's Most Missed was Angelo Ogbonna, who narrowly pipped former manager David Moyes to the number one spot - while our Award of Distinction goes to former goalkeeper Ludo Miklosko, who spent eight years at the club as first choice goalkeeper before later becoming a goalkeeping coach.

The full results - and comprehensive list of former winners - may be seen below.




KUMB Awards XXVIII: all the winners

★ Player of the Year: Jarrod Bowen
★ Young Player of the Year: Oli Scarles
★ Best Signing: Aaron Wan-Bissaka
★ Most Improved Player: Oli Scarles
★ Goal of the Season: Jarrod Bowen v Nottingham Forest (1-2)
★ Most Memorable Match: Arsenal 0-1 West Ham Utd
★ Most Memorable Moment: Niclas Fullkrug's post-Southampton rant
★ Most Missed: Angelo Ogbonna
★ Hackett of the Year: The FA (Paqueta case)
★ Best KUMB Writer: Paul Walker
★ KUMB Award of Distinction: Ludo Miklosko

To see the results in full, visit the KUMB Awards home page.

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