He really deserves the award because he has made his club Nottingham Forest look impressive this season and achieved consecutive wins in December, achieving consecutive wins in the Premier League is not easy because the competition in the EPL is very tight while Liverpool who have collected more points they did not achieve consecutive wins like Nottingham Forest did so he should get appreciation for his hard work.
Appreciation for a fairly hard work does need to be given because as you said that competing and getting consecutive wins in the Premier League is not a very easy job for every team, but what Nottingham Forest has achieved has really made many people wonder and currently the team is one of the teams that is able to compete in the top four zone with other strong teams. But I can't wait to see how Nottingham Forest's condition is when they meet Liverpool in the near future, because if Nottingham Forest can win again in this upcoming match, of course they are really extraordinary this season.
Nottingham forest has earned enough applaud following their consecutive wins. I just hope they keep up with this heat because with the goals scored by City in their last game which happened to be the third round of the FA Cup the might be back for a recovery mode and that means one of the top 4 will be forced to drop.
But overall Nottingham Forest can still make it as top 4 till the end of the season and that will be a direct Champions league ticket and I guess that will be their first time ever participating in the champions league but I still doubt they have all it takes to stand the full heat of the season when it starts to unveil.