The Football League's Young Player of the Year says he is keeping his feet firmly on the ground.

Leeds United teenager Fabian Delph has again been thrust into the limelight, after he picked up the Young Player accolade at the FourFourTwo Awards in London on Sunday evening ahead of a number of the country's promising youngsters.

"It's a massive complement to my season so far, but I've got to keep going," Fabian told LUTV. 

"The season isn't finished yet. When the season has finished I'll probably think about it all.

"There's a lot of good young players around who seem to be getting a chance, and they are doing well.

"This is a good league to be playing at a young age. You learn a lot from playing in games. Some teams kick it long and you have to adapt to that, there's teams that kick you, and some play football so there's a good mixture.

"We've played quite a few teams who had different game-play and we've had to adapt to that."

It's been an amazing season for a young player, who had made just three appearances, all as a substitute, prior to the start of this campaign.

Since then, the Academy product has established himself in the United first team - he could make his 50th appearance at Colchester on Saturday - and has scored six terrific goals this season.

On top of the award he collected at the weekend, he is also in the running for the club's Young Player of the Year award and the club's Player of the Year award. He won his first England under-21 cap last November and was one of the most talked about young players in the country during the January transfer window.

So, how has he coped?

"I block everything out," he said. "I have good people around me and I enjoy playing football.

"It hasn't been hard for me so far and I dont think it will be a problem because I enjoy playing football in front of big crowds and doing well.

"Physically and mentally I think I'm coping really well. Being honest I set myself higher standards which I don't think I've reached yet.

"I don't think I've got enough goals and I don't think I've dominated games as much as I'd like to.

"I keep myself grounded, keep playing games, and hopefully winning games and winning promotion.

"I think I have good energy. I'm not the sort to say I'm tired and need a rest - that's not me. I like to think I give 100 per cent even if we're losing or things aren't going our way."

The youngster made no secret of the influence our former manager Gary McAllister had on his development as a player during the early stages of the season, but Jonathan Douglas is another man who Fabian cites as a having a big impact on his fledgling career.

"I had a good partnership with Dougie, but he's gone to right-back and I've moved out on to the left so we're missing each other," he laughed.

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"Dougie made it easy for me because he sat and told me to play. When I made mistakes he would give me a rollocking and tell me what I should and shouldn't be doing so I've learnt a lot from him.

"It's like when you need to clear a ball. I like to play whever I can, but you learn that sometimes you have to just hook the ball down the line and sometimes not have so many touches, and mix it up really."

Fab has proved his ability to mix his game up and he has also notched some high-quality strikes this season.

He has three goals on the Goal of the Season short-list, his first against Walsall, one at Stockport, and a length-of-the-field effort to seal the game at Brighton, but which was his personal favourite?

"The goal against Brighton was probably my best one," he said.

"I'd seen the fella coming, cut across him, realised he wasn't going to catch me and kept going.

"I was going to play Trunds in, but I was selfish and went myself. If i'd have missed Truns would have rollocked me!"

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