(Nominations each week include Premier League, EFL Championship, EFL League One, EFL League Two fixtures)
The League Managers Association’s panel, comprising of LMA Chairman Martin O’Neill OBE, Jess Creighton, Les Ferdinand MBE, Sir Alex Ferguson CBE, Barry Fry, Chris Hughton, Mick McCarthy, Stuart Pearce MBE, Clare Tomlinson, Carla Ward, and Rachel Yankey OBE has determined that the Everest Men’s Performance of the Week Award should go to Rotherham United for their performance against Exeter City on Saturday 31st January.
Matt Hamshaw will receive the Everest Men’s Performance of the Week trophy.
Match Report
A near-perfect away performance at St. James Park earned Matt Hamshaw’s Millers an important three points on the road at Exeter City as they ran out as convincing 4-0 victors in Devon.
The visitors never surrendered control against a side on the cusp of the Sky Bet League One Play-off places at the start of play and any neutral watching would have been forgiven for being unable to identify the clubs’ respective standings in the third tier.
A confident first half display saw Hamshaw’s men rightly go into the interval with the advantage courtesy of Jamal Baptiste’s close-range finish, but it was the second half in which the Millers truly flexed muscles they haven’t been able to as a result of injuries within the camp as often as they’d have liked to this season.
Captain Joe Rafferty doubled the visitors lead to prompt a faultless five minutes in which Harry Gray added his second senior goal and Shaun McWilliams added further gloss to the scoreline with a fourth.
Read more here: https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2026/january/31/exeter-city-0-v-1-rotherham-united---report-/
