Czech man on target for Hammer of the year

Tomas Soucek appears to be on target to be crowned Hammer of the year this season 2020/2021 with a massive 52% of the vote.

In a poll with 11,440 responses, the Potato salad king received 6,000 votes equalling a massive 52.45% of all votes.

Even allowing for margins of error in polling he appears to have the award in the bag.

The poll suggests Declan Rice will be runner up with 2,350 votes or 20.54% of the votes.

Third place is Vladimir Coufal with 11.8% or 1,350 votes

Fourth place is the once favourite before his injury Angelo Ogbonna who picked up 5,5% or 640 of the votes.

Fifth place goes to Jesse Lingard with 620 votes equating to 5.4%

Sixth place was Aaron Cresswell with 200 votes just 1.75%

Other votes (300) meant that other players received than 1% of the votes.

Soucek has had an amazing season since joining from Slavia Prague for a combined £20m from the Czech republic.

He has been named Czech player of the year for two years running and picked up the Czech Golden Ball award from his home country.