SUPER status has been confirmed on York City number one Alan Fettis. The City goalkeeper enjoyed a clean sweep of the end of season awards for a second successive season prior to Saturday's 3-1 win over Mansfield Town.

Fettis, 31, lifted the prestigious Billy Fenton Memorial trophy after being voted clubman of the year to become only the fourth player in the club's history to receive the accolade two years running.

The Northern Ireland international also won the York City Supporters' Club player of the year, the City Reds player of the year and the Harrogate Minstermen, a new branch of the supporters' club, player of the year.

Fettis is also on track to retain his Evening Press player of the year award. He currently occupies first place in our rankings but with two games to go could still be overtaken by striker Michael Proctor.

Speaking to the Evening Press, Fettis admitted he was honoured and humbled to receive the awards then revealed he owed much to his understudy, Russ Howarth.

"I very much appreciate it and I'm very pleased. I thought I might get a couple but I really didn't expect to get them all," he said.

"It's another achievement and one I'm proud of.

"It's a lot of hard work and a lot of it is down to Russ Howarth. He is a good professional and we work hard together and if he does go in the summer I will miss him a lot."

As for Saturday's win, which dented the promotion hopes of Mansfield while lifting City to 15th and 54 points, two more than their total of last season, Fettis believed City were at last showing their potential.

City, who started slowly, fell behind to an Adam Murray strike on 40 minutes but were back level before the break when Lee Nogan grabbed his 100th League goal.

The Minstermen sealed their fourth win in six games in the second-half thanks to Jon Parkin's first goal at Bootham Crescent and Michael Proctor's 13th of the season.

"We have got to start learning that if we aren't playing well we still get something out of games and we don't get beat," said Fettis.

"You can't always play the fantastic football the fans want to see but as long as you are putting the effort in trying to get the right result together then people will see that.

"It just seems to be that we put a run together at the end of the season and you look at the table and you start thinking it isn't such a bad season.

"We started okay this season but then it went pear-shaped and we have got learn from that.

"There are games we look back at and think how did we not manage to get something from those games.

"If we had done, things could have worked out very differently."

Young defender Stuart Wise won the Gerry Davitt Memorial Cup after being voted the players' player of the year by his trainee team mates.

The young player of the year shield was awarded to John Collinson, the youth team goalkeeper who has been awarded a professional contract for next season.

Updated: 12:04 Monday, April 15, 2002