Coppell scoops managers' award

Updated 10.28 Wed May 16 2007
Keywords: Premier League, League Managers' Association, Steve Coppell, Reading, sport, football

Steve Coppell has scooped the League Managers' Association Manager of the Year award for the second year in a row.

The 51-year-old has been rewarded for taking the Royals to within a point of a Uefa Cup place in their first season in the Premiership.

Steve Coppell has been rewarded for taking the Royals to within a point of a Uefa Cup place in their first season in the Premiership

Twelve months ago he picked up the award after Reading won the Championship with a record 106 points, losing just two of their 46 league games.

Coppell is committed to the Madejski Stadium hotseat until 2009 after signing a new deal earlier in the season.

Meanwhile, Roy Keane was awarded the LMA's Championship Manager of the Year award after guiding Sunderland to the Championship title ahead of Steve Bruce's Birmingham City.

Yeovil's Russell Slade and Hartlepool's Danny Wilson took the League One and League Two awards respectively.

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