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West Ham's Declan Rice and Jarrod Bowen will rival Chelsea triplet Antonio Rudiger, Thiago Silva, and Jorginho to win Premier League Player of the Year 2021-22 at the London Football Awards in March.
Rice has been one of only a handful of exceptional stars of England's Euro 2020 mission to keep up with excellent condition this season, while Bowen has straightforwardly added to 13 Premier League objectives for David Moyes' side.
A serious waitlist is finished by Rudiger, Silva, and Jorginho, who has kept on dazzling Thomas Tuchel's European bosses.
Moyes is a competitor to win Manager of the Year for successive seasons however faces rivalry from Tuchel and Sutton United's Matt Gray, who has driven the League Two club into season finisher conflict and the semi-finals of the Papa John's Trophy in their first season in the Football League.
Gem Palace's Patrick Vieira and Fulham supervisor Marco Silva, whose side lead the way in the Championship, make up the waitlist. Sutton likewise has a competitor for Goalkeeper of the Year in Dean Bouzanis, who will go after the honor with Aaron Ramsdale, of Arsenal, Tottenham's Hugo Lloris, last year's champ Lukasz Fabianski, of West Ham, and Chelsea No1 Edouard Mendy.
Fulham and QPR rule the waitlist for EFL Player of the Year, with R's team Ilias Chair and Chris Willock rivaling Harry Wilson, Neeskens Kebano, and Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Fulham's Fabio Carvalho, who will join Liverpool in the late spring, is the sole EFL delegate on the Young Player of the Year waitlist, alongside Crystal Palace pair Conor Gallagher (borrowed from Chelsea) and Trick Mitchell, last year's champ Bukayo Saka, of Arsenal, and Tottenham's Oliver Skipp. In the ladies down, Arsenal threesome Leah Williamson, Katie McCabe, and Kim Little are engaging with Chelsea's Sam Kerr and Mackenzie Arnold, the West Ham goalkeeper, to win WSL Player of the Year.
Tottenham pair Jessica Naz and Esther Morgan will contend with West Ham's Melisa Filis on a more modest waitlist for Women's Young Player of the Year. The adjudicators, which incorporate the Evening Standard, will likewise settle on Community Project of the Year, which has been reduced to commitments from Arsenal, Chelsea, and QPR.
The renowned Outstanding Contribution to London Football grant, won by Roy Hodgson last year, will be reported independently. The 2021-22 London Football Awards are upheld by the Willow noble cause, which was established by previous Arsenal guardian Bob Wilson and his better half, Megs, and the function will occur at the Camden Roundhouse on March 3.
There will be a Goal of the Season grant on the evening, to be chosen by a public vote.
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