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title: "Burnley: Nick Pope delivers self-deprecating response to winning Players’ Player of the Year prize"
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published: "2020-08-11T12:00:19Z"
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# Burnley: Nick Pope delivers self-deprecating response to winning Players’ Player of the Year prize

**Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope was a double award winner at the club’s honours night for the 2019/20 season – even though he joked that one of those was wrongly given.**

As per [the club’s official website](https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/news/2020/august/pope-a-double-winner-in-annual-awards/), he was named as Burnley’s Player of the Year while also winning the Players’ Player of the Year prize.

Reflecting on the latter award when speaking to [Lancashire Live](https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/everything-nick-pope-said-award-18742679), the 28-year-old said: “I don’t know if them lot know too much about football if they voted for me but I will take it! We have a good set of lads in the dressing room so to get their approval and get their vote means a lot to me.”

![](https://cdn.footballtransfertavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/THE-BREAKDOWN.png)

Despite what Pope might say, he was a deserving recipient of both awards considering how brilliantly he played last season. He ended the Premier League season with [15 clean sheets](https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/clean_sheet?po=GOALKEEPER?po=GOALKEEPER&se=274), falling just [one short of Manchester City’s Ederson](https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/clean_sheet?po=GOALKEEPER?po=GOALKEEPER&se=274) in the race for the Golden Glove.

Plenty of those shutouts were hard-earned, too – the England international made [120 saves](https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/saves?po=GOALKEEPER?po=GOALKEEPER&se=274) in the league throughout the season, the [fourth-most of any goalkeeper](https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/saves?po=GOALKEEPER?po=GOALKEEPER&se=274) in the top flight, so it wasn’t as if he had the luxury of playing for a freewheeling outfit and rarely being called upon.

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One of those saves came from a Jamie Vardy penalty in January when Burnley, who were then on a [four-match losing streak which left them 15th](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-burnley/spielplan/verein/1132), came from behind to [beat high-flying Leicester 2-1](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51080694).

Having gone on to lose just [two of their 16 subsequent league games](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-burnley/spielplan/verein/1132) (one against a rampant Manchester City, the other an inconsequential final day loss to Brighton), it’s not hard to see why [Sean Dyche](https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/burnley-tottenham-nick-pope-leicester-17871861) and Sky Sports pundit [Matt Murray](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/burnley-fc-news/burnley-matt-murray-pope-penalty-save-leicester-turning-point/) both referenced that moment against the Foxes as a seminal moment in the Clarets’ season, which ended with them basking in a [top-half finish](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/tabelle/wettbewerb/GB1/saison_id/2019).

![](https://cdn.footballtransfertavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Verdict.png)

The double awards for Pope are not the only indicator of just how tremendous a season he enjoyed – [transfer speculation](https://www.90min.com/posts/exclusive-chelsea-continuing-to-scout-nick-pope-as-search-for-new-goalkeeper-ramps-up?view_source=categories_page&view_medium=%5Btransfer) linking him with a move to Chelsea, who will be in the Champions League next term, offers a clue as to how high his reputation has soared.

It is with good reason, too, considering the numbers he posted in 2019/20. While his self-deprecating remarks hint at a modest, grounded character, it shouldn’t be too hard to see why Pope was honoured by his team-mates as the pick of the Turf Moor crop for last season.

***Burnley fans, does Pope’s response sum up his professionalism? Have your say by commenting below!***