Askou vs McInnes: Who is manager of the year?
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Is Hearts boss Derek McInnes a more deserving candidate for manager of the year than Motherwell's Jens Berthel Askou?
Both were appointed last summer and both have their teams achieving far beyond expectations.
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McInnes has Hearts on course for their first top-flight crown in 66 years while Askou's fourth-place Motherwell have an outside chance of the title and have won plaudits for their bold style of play and rock-solid defence.
The Dane has a win rate of over 48% and a points per game of 1.2 while his Motherwell side have scored 48 goals and conceded 20 (the fewest in the division). The Steelmen have won 14 league games, 10 of those victories have come at Fir Park.
Hearts are five points clear at the top with a win rate of over 65% and a points per game of 2.2. His Hearts side have scored 52 goals, conceded 24 and won 19 games - 11 at home, where they remain unbeaten.
And former Hearts midfielder Ryan Stevenson feels suggestions of anyone other than McInnes as manager of the year are well wide of the mark.
"It really annoys me the fact that people even just now will talk about the Motherwell manager as being manager of the season," he told the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast.
"I think it's absolutely outrageous.
"Jamestown's been brilliant, I get that. But if you've not got a guy there that can lead players, that can coach them, that can put an arm round them when they need it, or know when they need a kick up the backside, it's pretty pointless. And that's what Derek is.
"He's a tremendous man-manager. He's a tremendous tactical manager as well. People just don't give him credit where it's due.
"And don't be kidded, one of the main reasons that Hearts are where they are so early in this Tony Bloom era is 100% down to Derek McInnes."