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Player of the year. 10:27 - May 13 with 2745 views

I didn’t realise that Frank Thyssen is the only Town player to have won this award. In the year we won the 1st Divisiion they gave it to Danny Blanchflower. Scandalous!

Player of the year. on 10:35 - May 13 with 2662 views

Lord_Lucan

Frans Thijssen

From memory we won all top three spots in both the players player and the journalist's player

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Player of the year. on 10:36 - May 13 with 2654 views

Meadowlark

Eh?
Who?

Frans Thijssen

Player of the year. on 10:38 - May 13 with 2646 views

ronnyd

Wasn't his brother Mike a boxer?

Player of the year. on 10:39 - May 13 with 2638 views

farkenhell

Town players won all three end of season awards that year (voted by players, managers and football writers). Warkie won one of them, can't remember who won the other (Mills?)

Remember though that Villa won the league that year.

Player of the year. on 10:41 - May 13 with 2628 views

farkenhell

Player of the year. on 10:35 - May 13 by Lord_Lucan
Frans Thijssen From memory we won all top three spots in both the players player and the journalist's player

Sorry mate, you can clearly type quicker than me!

Player of the year. on 10:46 - May 13 with 2605 views

blueislander

Player of the year. on 10:41 - May 13 by farkenhell
Sorry mate, you can clearly type quicker than me!

Apologies for the predictive text.

Player of the year. on 10:49 - May 13 with 2593 views

farkenhell

Player of the year. on 10:46 - May 13 by blueislander
Apologies for the predictive text.

I was talking about Lucan's 2nd para.

If it helps, don't worry I can't spell Tyson either. That's why I always call him Kaiser Frans!

Player of the year. on 10:54 - May 13 with 2573 views

Whos_blue

https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/410892/3693363/1981-pfa-player-of-the-year-awards/

Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.

Player of the year. on 11:04 - May 13 with 2532 views

Vic

Player of the year. on 10:54 - May 13 by Whos_blue
https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/410892/3693363/1981-pfa-player-of-the-year-awards/

Ah, wow - thanks for digging that one out. Top three players form little old Ipswich! Stunning - and I think we just took it all in our stride in those days. We were so consistently good we just accepted it as normal! TWTD.

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Player of the year. on 11:04 - May 13 with 2532 views

farkenhell

Player of the year. on 10:54 - May 13 by Whos_blue
https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/410892/3693363/1981-pfa-player-of-the-year-awards/

Thanks, that could well be what I was thinking of.

Was there also an award that the League managers voted for, which we also won? Or did I dream about that one!

Player of the year. on 13:12 - May 13 with 2354 views

DJR

Player of the year. on 11:04 - May 13 by farkenhell
Thanks, that could well be what I was thinking of. Was there also an award that the League managers voted for, which we also won? Or did I dream about that one!

I think there were only two awards.

For the Football Writers' award we had the top three, as mentioned above, with Frans Thijssen the winner.

For the Players' Player award we had three of the top six (who weren't put in order), Frans Thyssen, Paul Mariner and John Wark, with John Wark the winner.

But we did have four players in the Football Writers' team of the year, Russell Osman, Paul Mariner, Frans Thyssen and John Wark.

The fact that we had so many players featured showed the regard our team at that time had, especially amongst journalists. It also explains the regard many people in the know still have for Ipswich. And it makes a complete nonsense of the argument that Norwich are a bigger club than Ipswich.

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Player of the year. on 13:35 - May 13 with 2257 views

soupytwist

Player of the year. on 10:54 - May 13 by Whos_blue
https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/410892/3693363/1981-pfa-player-of-the-year-awards/

What an excellent video. My favourite bit in the clip of Ipswich highlights is when Arnold Muhren sells that Man Utd player a dummy.

Also, they could have put Stanley Rous on a table nearer the stage given that he was 85, and presenting the main award!

Player of the year. on 14:24 - May 13 with 2147 views

DJR

Player of the year. on 13:12 - May 13 by DJR

[Post edited 13 May 2023 14:23]

I didn't watch the video long enough because for the Players' Player award we also had the top three.

Player of the year. on 14:37 - May 13 with 2114 views

jontysnut

The Beat was the first winner of Young player of the Year

Player of the year. on 15:37 - May 13 with 2002 views

ElephantintheRoom

Curiously that year the winner of the supporters player of the year was Paul Cooper who probably got zero votes i either of the national awards

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Player of the year. on 15:50 - May 13 with 1986 views

TractorCam

Still not over Patrick Bamford winning it in 2015.

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Player of the year. on 16:56 - May 13 with 1892 views

DJR

Player of the year. on 15:37 - May 13 by ElephantintheRoom
Curiously that year the winner of the supporters player of the year was Paul Cooper who probably got zero votes i either of the national awards

I think this was a recognition of how important he was to the team, even though he was overshadowed by the rest of the team, all of whom were internationals.

His penalty saving record was second to none.