Calvin Ramsay has won The Scottish Football Writers’ Association Young Player of the Year award for 2021-22.

Lewis Ferguson was the first AFC recipient of the young player award from the football writers in 2019–20. The SFWA Footballer of the Year has been won by Martin Buchan 1971, Gordon Strachan 1980, Willie Miller 1984, and Alex McLeish 1990.

Meteoric is probably the best word to describe the rise of Calvin Ramsay over the course of the last 12 months. What has been more impressive yet is the way that Calvin has been able to seemingly take it all in his stride, not least because this isn’t the season that he had envisaged when he returned for pre-season back in June last year.

“I have enjoyed every moment of my first full season. I didn’t expect to be in the team at the start of the season. I thought I would be going out on loan to experience playing men’s football. But I felt I did well in training during pre-season and the then manager pulled me into his office and told me I had played my way into the team just before the first game of the campaign. Since then, I have kept working hard.

“It was definitely something that I wanted to experience. It is only really a year since Paul Sheerin gave me my Aberdeen debut against Dundee United at Tannadice. Even although I was only on the pitch for a couple of minutes, it is something you dream of as a young boy. Once you get a taste of it, you really want more.

“He also handed me my first start against Dumbarton in the Scottish Cup. I came off after an hour or so with cramp, so I have come a long way since then! The time has flown, it doesn’t feel like I have been playing for the Aberdeen first team for a year.”