Skipper Gets Award
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Rotherham United captain Richard Wood has been named the clubs PFA Community Champion of the Year for the 2019/20 season.
‘I’m delighted,’ the Millers defender told the Official Site.
Woody joined the Millers in the summer of 2014 from Charlton Athletic and has played just short of one hundred and fifty games scoring fifteen goals, two of those coming in the 2018 League One Play-Off Final at Wembley to get Rotherham back into the Championship.
February this year saw him sign a new deal at the New York Stadium keeping him in a Rotherham shirt until 2021.
The skipper has got the award for all his work he does in and around the community of the town saying, ‘the club and community provide an amazing service to the local area and I will do everything I can to support them, regardless of the cause and being a part of this for the last several years has been an honour.’
Well Done Woody – and well deserved.