Has anyone noticed that our Player of the Season award seems to be cursed?

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here are the winners over the last 11 years:

2007: Grant Holt (Submitted Transfer request that summer after being refused new contract, eventually sold 1 year later following drop in form)
2008: Julian Bennett (Suffered Career ending Knee injury in December 2008 )
2009: Chris Cohen (Escaped harm, but wait for it)
2010: Lee Camp (the exception, played a further 2.5 seasons before leaving)
2011: Luke Chambers (Left on a free transfer 1 year later)
2012: Garath McCleary (Left on a free transfer not long after winning the award)
2013: Chris Cohen (coming back from a Major Knee Injury, Chris wins the POTY award, then, to make up for escaping harm from the previous award, he has two more successive Knee injuries)
2014: Andy Reid (Andy would play only 6 more games for Forest after winning, and was forced to retire through injury)
2015: Michail Antonio (Was sold the following season)
2016: Dorus de Vries (Was sold the following season)
2017: Eric Lichaj (?)

Is anyone else worried about Eric? :/

 

[valspoodle]

Weren't most of those departures because they were crap at the time, the result of poor admin or because the player themselves got big-headed and wanted out for big bucks. Or a combination of those points.

Bennett, Cohen and Reid I would exempt from that and agree they were unlucky or cursed, plus the fact they were all good guys.

 

[account deleted]

Given that they won player of the season I'd imagine some of them left because they were half-decent and clubs higher up the league wanted them?

 

[Shipstones Pye Eater]

Well it does look like the award entitles the winner a move away or a career threatening injury. Poor old Eric.