Sportskeeda Football Writer of the Month for January 2017: Robin Bairner

The Writer of the Month for the first month of 2017 goes to the ever-excellent Robin Bairner for his piece on the resurgent Radamel Falcao – El Tigre roars again: Falcao leading Monaco title push ahead of PSG test. Robin has been consistently excellent in January and this award could as well have gone for his great piece on the much-maligned Dimitri Payet – 'I used to p*** people off when I wanted' - The story of flawed genius Dimitri Payet

There was some exceptionally tough competition in January, and the following articles must be mentioned as they ran Bairner’s articles very close. 

- Diego Simeone’s jaded Atletico Madrid look ready for change by Simon Harrison

- Tribute to Wayne Rooney: Manchester United talisman, occasional scapegoat and scoring king by Trevor Murray 

- The streak had to end, but it could mark a new beginning for Zidane’s Madrid by Umid Kumar Dey