Walters scoops top award

8:24am Wednesday 23rd April 2008

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Jon Walters has been crowned Ipswich Town's Player-of-the-Year.

As expected, the midfielder-cum-striker was the big winner at last night's end-of-season dinner.

He scooped the Players' Player-of-the-Year gong and also went home with the Corporate Boxholders and Sponsors' Player-of-the-Year award.

More than 400 guests were present at the town's Trinity Park to see him claim his silverware double - including members of the club's trophy-winning teams from the last 50 years.

Ray Crawford was there to represent the 1962 championship-winning side, while Roger Osborne, Mick Mills and John Wark were there from the 1978 FA Cup heroes.

Mills and Wark were also part of the 1981 UEFA Cup-winning side while more recent players in attendance included Chris Kiwomya, Mick Stockwell and Simon Milton (1992 Second Division champions) and Jim Magilton, Fabian Wilnis, Richard Naylor and John McGreal (play-off winners at Wembley in May 2000).

Meanwhile, Pablo Counago's backheel at Charlton Athletic was named the goal of the season, while Danny Haynes was named as the club's most improved player and duly picked up the John Kerridge Memorial Trophy.

Striker Jordan Rhodes won the Harold Smith Trophy for the academy's most- improved player.

There was bad news at Molineux last night where Wolves defeated Cardiff 3-0 to leapfrog Ipswich and go into seventh in the Coca-Cola Championship.

Town now sit in eighth, a point behind Wolves.