Snapshot: Nigel Pearson Is Your Premier League Manager Of The Month For April…

By Chris Wright

A victory for ostrich-baiters everywhere, Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson has won his very first Barclays Manager of the Month award after overseeing four straight victories over West Ham, West Brom, Swansea and Burnley during April while hauling the Foxes out of the relegation zone in the process…

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The Player of the Month award has gone to Christian Benteke who, after a fairly fallow season in the main has struck a rich vein of goalscoring form when Aston Villa needed it the most – scoring five goals in fours games in April to salvage a few crucial points for his relegation-threatened side…

Barclays POTM Christian Benteke

As you can see, all of the most exciting end-of-season Premier League drama is definitely going on down at the bottom end this year.