Liverpool manager among five Premier League coaches and ten from clubs in the north to win honours last season
By Paul Hetherington, FWA North secretary
TEN managers will be honoured – including Premier League title-winning Arne Slot – at a Football Writers’ Association event in Manchester on Sunday, November 23.
The 43rd FWA (North) Managers’ Awards Dinner will be held at The Edwardian, Free Trade Hall, Peter Street, Manchester, with five Premier League bosses among the winners.
They are Liverpool’s Slot, Newcastle’s Eddie Howe for ending a Geordie-trophy drought by lifting the Carabao Cup and three bosses who won promotion to the top flight – Daniel Farke (Leeds), Scott Parker (Burnley) and Regis Le Bris (Sunderland).
Those managers are joined by another five successful, promotion-winning managers from the EFL.
Wrexham’s Phil Parkinson, Doncaster’s Grant McCann, Port Vale’s Darren Moore, Graham Alexander at Bradford City and Micky Mellon, who restored Oldham to the Football League, all added to their managerial reputations.
The FWA regard this function as our Hall of Fame for managers in the north and five of this year’s recipients are being inducted into that category for the first time.
They are Slot, Howe, Farke, Parker – who has a FWA history as a winner of the Footballer of the Year award as a West Ham player in 2011 – and Le Bris.
Tickets cost £80 for FWA members and £85 for non-members and guests to attend a prestigious event in the iconic Free Trade Hall, including a four-course dinner.
Anyone wishing to attend – and there are still places available – should contact FWA (North) secretary Paul Hetherington by phone on 07771 933242 or email on [email protected]
Erik Ten Hag was one of the guests of honour at last year’s awards, as you can see in this clip:
