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Aston Villa captain John Terry and top goalscorer Albert Adomah have both been named in the Championship team of the year.

Terry, 37, joined Villa from boyhood club Chelsea last summer and the ex-England skipper has been a revelation.

The central defender has started 29 of Villa’s 39 Championship matches to date having missed two months due to a broken metatarsal.

Terry has helped Villa to to keep 12 clean sheets in those games and he’s become hugely popular amongst supporters.

Meanwhile, Adomah’s stunning season has also earned him a place in the highly coveted team.

The winger started the campaign on the fringes of Villa’s first team but injury to Andre Green in September presented him with a chance to claim the left-wing position - and he took it.

Adomah’s brace at Barnsley on his first league start of the season in mid September proved to be the springboard for a goal-laden campaign which is now his best-ever in terms of goals.

Adomah’s 14 league goals is only bettered by Matej Vydra, Bobby Reid, Leon Clarke and team-mate Lewis Grabban.

All 72 managers in the EFL were invited to vote for the best players across each division and the full team is as follows...

(4-3-3): John Ruddy (Wolves); Ryan Fredericks (Fulham), Conor Coady (Wolves), John Terry (Villa), Ryan Sessegnon (Fulham); Tom Cairney (Fulham), Ruben Neves (Wolves), James Maddison (Norwich); Bobby Reid (Bristol City), Matej Vydra (Derby County), Albert Adomah (Villa)

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Every classroom and workplace has a teacher’s pet. The pupil or worker who is the teacher/boss’s favourite and everyone else knows it.

If Steve Bruce was to have a favourite at Aston Villa it might be Sam Johnstone or James Chester, both of whom have started every Championship match.

But according to Robert Snodgrass it’s local lad Jack Grealish.

Grealish hasn’t always been the first name on Bruce’s team-sheet. There were moments last season when the 22-year-old lad from Solihull couldn’t have bought a place in Villa’s starting XI.

Bruce has built Villa’s promotion dream around him this season and, by and large, they’ve reaped the rewards.

With such ability comes expectation, though, as team-mate Robert Snodgrass explains.

“He feels as if the manager doesn’t like him at times because he’s always on at him to deliver. He’s that good, he’s a great player,” said Snodgrass, who himself has seven goals and 13 assists in 33 Championship starts.

Not entirely understanding why Bruce singles him out on the training ground, Grealish made the mistake of pointing it out.

Snodgrass continued: “So he once had an argument in training that the gaffer likes me better than him. The gaffer was going, ‘Did I come and visit you when you were not well?’

“And then all the boys were on him, saying 'You’re the teacher’s pet!'

“Jack is the most skillful, he’s very good, I probably need to give him that mantle. His touch and all that stuff, honestly I’ve sat back at times and thought this kid has just got it.”

For more from Snodgrass check out Villa’s On The Bish podcast here.