Scott Sinclair, Brendan Rodgers, Kieran Tierney and Moussa Dembele clinch PFA Scotland awards
Monday 8 May 2017 22:14, UK
Scott Sinclair and Brendan Rodgers were crowned PFA Scotland Player and Manager of the season respectively, while Kieran Tierney clinched the Young Player and Moussa Dembele the Goal of the Season awards.
Sinclair only joined Celtic in the summer in a £3.5m move from Aston Villa, and has gone on to score 25 goals for the club from the wing.
The 28-year-old, who has featured for no fewer than 12 English football League sides in his career, including Chelsea, Swansea and Manchester City, played a central part in the Bhoys' run-away title success this season.
On April 30, Sinclair was voted Player of the Year and Player's Player of the Year at Celtic's own Player of the Year Awards, and he can now add the PFA award to his mantelpiece.
Celtic boss Rodgers clinched the manager of the year award having also only arrived in Glasgow in the summer of 2016.
The Northern Irishman has overseen a remarkably dominant campaign in which Celtic are yet to lose in the league, having won 31 of their 35 games and drawn four, with three fixtures remaining.
On April 2, Celtic confirmed their sixth consecutive title and 48th overall after a 5-0 win away at Hearts, with eight rounds still to play.
As well as the Scottish Premiership title, Rodgers also clinched the Scottish League Cup in November after a 3-0 triumph against Aberdeen at Hampden Park.
Rodgers could lead Celtic to a domestic treble on May 27, as his side face Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final.
"I'm very honoured to win it," Rodgers told Sky Sports News HQ. "A few years ago I was fortunate enough to win the equivalent in the English Premier League and that night I was very humbled and it feels exactly the same tonight.
"Scottish football over many years has produced fantastic managers and coaches, and still have, and obviously to have this accolade voted for by your peers and fellow coaches and managers is very humbling.
"It's been a really good season for us and from a personal perspective tonight it's been really nice."
Celtic full-back Tierney won the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year award for the second successive campaign after another standout season for the Hoops.
The 19-year-old established himself as Celtic's first-choice left-back ahead of the experienced Emilio Izaguirre last year and maintained that during the current campaign with a series of eye-catching displays.
Tierney won the award ahead of Hibernian forward Jason Cummings and Celtic team-mates Moussa Dembele and Patrick Roberts.
Dembele completed the quartet of awards as he picked up the Goal of the Season gong for his strike against St Johnstone in February, in which he rounded off a sensational team move to clinch a hat-trick and finish off the game in style after a rabona pass by Mikael Lustig.
"There was a great build-up to the goal and I had to put it into the net, so I got the award but it's a team award and we all deserve it," Dembele told Sky Sports News HQ after picking up the award.
"'I'm a striker so I don't really think about if it's a special goal or not. When I get the ball in the box I just try to put it in the back of the net. That's my job and that's what I play football for.
"Yeah it was good skill from him [Lustig], I didn't know he had that in his locker but he proved me wrong! It was a good goal."
