Shittu rated 20th best player outside Premiership
QPR centre half Danny Shittu has made the top twenty in the list of best players outside the Premiership. The commanding defender bizarrely missed out totally last year but has polled enough votes this season to move into 20th position as his reputation grows.
The list of the 50 best players outside the Premiership has been released again, and it includes our very own Danny Shittu at number 20.
Danny missed out on the list altogether last season, when Paul Furlong was QPR's only representative, but in the poll which includes votes from players, managers, writers, pundits and Gordon Taylor *spit*, he has now started to make an impression.
Shittu finds himself ahead of Darren Ward, Matthew Kilgallon and Ivar Ingimarsson who all play centre half for teams higher up the league than QPR. Bizarrely though he sits four places behind Sheffield United's Chris Morgan whose terrible form and lack of pace is one of the prime reasons Sheffield United's promotion campaign is crumbling.
Reading's Ibrahim Sonko was the top rated centre half in seventh position, Wolves Joleon Lescott finished eleventh.
Phil Jagielka (that lad that Lomas dominated at Bramall Lane last week) finished top with Reading's Steve Sidwell demoted from first to second. Andy Johnson finished third.
Ade Akinibiyi somehow made the top ten while Reading's Leroy Lita could only manage thirty first position. Dave Kitson, David Nugent and Cameron Jerome were also deservedly in the top ten, although all three bizarrely finished behind Lee Trundle.
Still Chris Kamara seems to have had some influence over these results (i.e. they gave that bloody idiot a vote) so the odd anomaly is to be expected.
The full run down is part of April's edition of the always excellent Four Four Two magazine which is on sale now.
Editor Hugh Sleight said; "When we published our Top 50 League Players for the first time last season, the response was overwhelming - from readers, players and the entire football community. Compiling this year's list has been a mammoth operation, and now we can't wait to hear the reaction of our readers."
