Newly-crowned Young Player of the Year Dan Neil is dreaming of ending his magnificent breakthrough by scoring a Wembley winner to help Sunderland achieve promotion. The 20-year-old academy product picked up his Sunderland Supporters' Association award at the Stadium of Light last night, with 22-goal leading scorer Ross Stewart voted Player of the Year.
Neil was a popular choice, with the midfielder having quickly established himself as a crowd favourite in his first full season of senior football. "It means a lot to win the award, especially in my first season," said the boyhood Sunderland fan.
"A lot of the players who have won it in the past have gone on to do really good things and hopefully I can follow in their footsteps, but that only starts if we reach that end goal at the end of the season. It's all well and good winning individual awards but it's the team one that we want to win, and hopefully we can finish the season off by doing that."
