Wycombe Wanderers goalkeeper David Stockdale has jointly won the League One Golden Glove award.
The 36-year-old shot-stopper picked up the prize along with Plymouth Argyle’s Michael Cooper, as the two keepers kept 18 shutouts this league season.
The former Fulham, Leicester City and Brighton & Hove Albion man played every minute of the Chairboys’ League One campaign, and he is expected to be in between the sticks for when they face Milton Keynes in the play-off semi-finals on May 5 and May 8.
David ‘Stocko Safe Hands’ Stockdale #Chairboys @stockogk1313 🧤 🛑 🏆 pic.twitter.com/IeuFKx4HZk
— James Richings (@James_BFP) April 30, 2022
It is the first time a Wycombe player has won the trophy.
Now in his third spell with the club, Stockdale has become an integral part of the Wanderers squad, as well as being a fan favourite.
Previously, he played twice for the Chairboys in an emergency loan spell in the 2018/19 campaign.
He then re-joined the Adams Park outfit in January 2020 on loan from Birmingham City, before signing a permanent contract with the club in September of that year.
Occupying the bench for most of his last season, Stockdale deputised for the injured Ryan Allsop in February 2021, before making the position his own.
Stocko, Stocko!#Chairboys pic.twitter.com/IBaznlHpcs
— Wycombe Wanderers (@wwfcofficial) April 30, 2022
This season, he has faced the most shots (185) in the league, yet has kept the third-best save percentage across the division (73.2 per cent).
The Yorkshire-stopper will be hoping for another glittering piece of gold to add to his cabinet come May 21, if Wycombe progress to the League One play-off final.
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