West Ham defender of the season revealed

Issa Diop has been crowned the best West Ham defender of the season by Claret and Hugh readers. With 1,716 readers voting in the West Ham defender of the season poll, Diop polled an impressive 983 votes (57.28%) making him easily the outright winner.

The 22-year-old French defender joined from Toulouse last summer costing the Hammers £22.5m and has proved his value again and again for the Hammers.

The young defender has made 36 appearances this season, 31 of those in the Premier League, scoring two goals and totalling 3,240 minutes on the pitch to quickly become a West Ham favourite with the manager and the supporters.

His partner in the centre of defence, Fabian Balbuena was placed second in the poll with 556 votes (32.4%)

Veteran defender Pablo Zabaleta who has just signed a 12-month contract extension was third on 133 votes (7.75%)

Angelo Ogbonna was fourth 1.11% (19 votes), Arthur Masuaku fifth with 0.82% (14 votes), Aaron Cresswell sixth 0.35% (6 votes) and finally Ryan Fredericks was seventh 0.29% (5 votes)

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Sean Whetstone

I am Season Ticket Holder in West stand lower at the London Stadium and before that, I used to stand in the Sir Trevor Brooking Lower Row R seat 159 in the Boleyn Ground and in the Eighties I stood on the terraces of the old South Bank. I am a presenter on the West Ham Podcast called MooreThanJustaPodcast.co.uk. A Blogger on WestHamTillIdie.com a member of the West Ham Supporters Advisory Board (SAB), Founder of a Youtube channel called Mr West Ham Football at http://www.youtube.com/MrWestHamFootball,

I am also the associate editor here at Claret and Hugh.

Life Long singer of bubbles! Come on you Irons!

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