The Championship Player of the Year and the Football League’s best young player want to break through at Chelsea and Spurs after shining at Boro and MK Dons
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The Football League Awards are an agreeable setting for catching up with colleagues and, while glasses clinked around them at The Brewery in central London, two friends stood in animated conversation over a soft drink. Patrick Bamford and Dele Alli clearly need few cues to begin chatting but there was plenty for them to pore over here. Team-mates at MK Dons for the best part of a year until last January and close friends since, their trajectories have been inexorable and their achievements in winning this event’s two biggest awards spoke of the thrilling potential held by two young English players who may be spending plenty more time in the capital next season.
Bamford, who was on loan at the League One club for two spells during 2013, was named Championship Player of the Year, largely on account of the 17 goals he has scored for Middlesbrough – to whom he has been lent by Chelsea for the season – in their drive for promotion. He looked astonished to have won the award, which is voted for by league clubs’ managers and apparently went in the 21-year-old’s favour by a landslide, and said afterwards that he had given himself little chance against fellow nominees Troy Deeney and Daryl Murphy.
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