Tottenham leak PFA Young Player of the Year award winner after confirming Dele Alli's success

The news features in Monday night's matchday programme for Tottenham's match with West Brom

Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli has won the PFA Young Player of the Year award (Getty)

Tottenham Hotspur have accidentally leaked the result of Sunday night’s PFA Young Player of the Year award after they posted an extract of tomorrow’s matchday programme online, revealing that midfielder Dele Alli has won the coveted prize.

The PFA will not be pleased with the leak – which comes just hours before the award ceremony at Grosvenor House in London – as it comes in the same week as the PFA Team of the Year was leaked. The line-up was published in full on Thursday after a picture of the team was leaked out to the media, and Spurs have now confirmed that Alli will win the second most important award at the ceremony tonight.

The extract, which appears in Tottenham’s programme for their home match with West Bromwich Albion on Monday night, reads: “Dele Alli’s impressive season hit new heights yesterday evening when he was voted PFA Young Player of the Year at the 43rd PFA Awards held in the Grosvenor House in London.

“The 20-year-old has enjoyed a fantastic 2015-16 so far in what has been his first season in the Premier League having joined up with the squad last summer from MK Dons. He’s taken to the top flight with consummate ease, producing a string of excellent performances while chipping in with his fair share of goals and assists, so it was no surprise to see him nominated for the award.

“And his fellow professionals clearly felt the same as they voted for him ahead of his Spurs team-mate and last year’s winner Harry Kane.”

Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez has been tipped to win the main award, with bookmakers’ making him the favourite to follow Chelsea’s Eden Hazard as the PFA Player of the Year.