Now the season is finally over, voting is open for the 12th annual KUMB.com awards.
This year marks the 12th successive season in which KUMB have conducted an online poll for Hammers fans to vote in a series of categories ranging from Player of the Year to Hackett of the Year (our unique award dedicated to Keith Hackett, the referee of West Ham's 1990 semi-final FA Cup game against Nottingham Forest).Once again there are 10 categories in which to cast your votes; please note that you may also vote for your runner-up in the main Player of the Year category.
Additionally, you can review all ten nominees for the Goal of the Season award in this video (38.5mb, click on the 'Click here to start download' link).
To submit your votes, please complete the entry form here. The full list of nominees are as follows:
Player of the Season
All first team squad members.
Young Player of the Season (21 or under)
Jack Collison
Holmar Orn Eyjolfsson
Robert Hall
Zavon Hines
Bondz N'Gala
Savio Nsereko
Josh Payne
Fred Sears
Jordan Spence
Junior Stanislas
James Tomkins
Best Signing/Worst Signing (two seperate categories)
Valon Behrami
David Di Michele
Holmar Orn Eyjolfsson
Herita Ilunga
Radoslav Kovac
Peter Kurucz
Jan Lastuvka
Walter Lopez
Savio Nsereko
Diego Tristan
Most Improved Player
All first team squad members.
Most Memorable Match
West Ham Utd 4 Blackburn 1 (30th August)
West Ham Utd 3 Newcastle Utd 1 (20th September)
Fulham 1 West Ham Utd 2 (27th September)
Liverpool 0 West Ham Utd 0 (1st December)
Chelsea 1 West Ham Utd 1 (14th December)
Portsmouth 1 West Ham Utd 4 (26th December)
West Ham Utd 2 Stoke 1 (28th December)
West Ham Utd 2 Hull City 0 (28th January)
Arsenal 0 West Ham Utd 0 (31st January)
Wigan 0 West Ham Utd 1 (4th March)
Goal of the Season
(new video featuring all 10 nominees here)
Dean Ashton v Wigan (16th August)
David Di Michele v Newcastle (20th September)
Jack Collison v Everton (8th November)
Craig Bellamy v Newcastle (10th January)
Carlton Cole v Newcastle (10th January)
Carlton Cole v Wigan (4th March)
Mark Noble v Blackburn (21st March)
Junior Stanislas v Sunderland (4th April)
Diego Tristan v Stoke (2nd May)
Radoslav Kovac v Everton (16th May)
Worst Player of the Year
All first team squad members.
Greatest Disappointment
The Board's decision to settle out of court with Sheffield United
The Lord Griffiths/FA panel ruling in favour of Sheffield United
The failure to effectively replace Craig Bellamy in the January transfer window
The extensive injury list - again
Going out of the FA Cup to Middlesbrough
Failure to secure 7th spot in the Premier League
Losing to Tottenham - twice
Losing Dean Ashton for another season
The Board's treatment of Alan Curbishley
Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson's financial situation
Hackett of the Year
Craig Bellamy (former Hammers striker who jumped ship in January)
Scott Duxbury (Hammers CEO)
Lord Griffiths (Presider of the FA Panel that saw fit to rule in Sheffield United's favour)
Oliver Holt (Mirror journalist and public voice of Neil Warnock)
Frank Lampard Jnr (yes, him)
Kevin McCabe (Chairman of Sheffield United responsible for the £25million pay-out for the Carlos Tevez affair)
Ian McGarry (Sun journalist and writer of Frank Lampard's autobiography)
Harry Redknapp (ex-Hammers boss now at Tottenham)
John Terry (persistent whinger)
Neil Warnock (Crystal Palace manager who made noises about suing WHU in the wake of the Griffiths ruling)
To cast your votes, click here to access the voting form. The polls are open for the next fortnight, with results due on the first weekend of June.
You may browse the results of all previous KUMB.com annual polls here.
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