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PFA Fans’ Player Of The Month Winners Announced

Manchester United striker Anthony Martial has been named the PFA Fans’ Player of the Month for August/September in the Premier League.

Sheffield Wednesday’s Ross Wallace takes the Sky Bet Championship award, Colchester midfielder George Moncur is the Sky Bet League One winner and Plymouth’s Graham Carey is Player of the Month for Sky Bet League Two.

Frenchman Martial, who joined United on Deadline Day from Monaco for an initial £36m, a record fee for a teenager, scored three goals in his first two Premier League games, as well as putting in a man-of-the-match performance in the 3-0 win over Sunderland.

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Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez and West Ham’s new signing Dimitri Payet were alongside Martial on the final three-player shortlist for the Premier League.

Several fine performances from Wednesday midfielder Wallace, who joined the club from Burnley in the summer, helped the club to a solid 15 points from 10 games, earning him the gong for the second tier.

Son of former West Ham midfielder John, Moncur has scored five goals from midfield so far for Colchester this season, helping them up to 10th having struggled last term.

The former West Ham academy player is joined by Carey, the 26-year-old Irish attacking midfielder who has also hit five goals for the Devon side in Sky Bet League Two, leaving them in top spot and flying with seven wins out of 11.

Every month, throughout the English football season, fans will have the opportunity to vote on skysports.com for who they think has been the best player in each of the Barclays Premier League, Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One and Sky Bet League Two, after Sky Sports teamed up with the PFA to be the digital platform for the Awards.

Before the vote opens each month, an expert panel produce a shortlist of contenders. Fans are then able to vote for the player they think deserves the award.

The panel includes Sky Sports football pundits Paul Merson, Ian Holloway and Peter Beagrie.

That trio are then joined by Mike Riley, general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials, and Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters Federation, as well as the winning fan from each month.

The winning fans who will take their places on next month’s shortlisting panel and make the awards to players will be announced in due course.

PFA Fans’ Player of the Month awards for August/September

Premier League: Anthony Martial

Championship: Ross Wallace

League One: George Moncur

League Two: Graham Carey

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