The Guardian wins seven SJA awards with double honours for Daniel Taylor

• Guardian named sports website and newspaper of the year
• Daniel Taylor is football journalist and sports writer of the year
• Martha Kelner, Sean Ingle and Donald McRae also honoured

Daniel Taylor picked up two of the seven prizes won by the Guardian at the Sports Journalists’ Association awards on Monday night, being named the football journalist of the year and the sports writer of the year.

The Guardian’s chief football writer won the football journalist award for a body of work which included his revelatory coverage of the Eni Aluko affair and an interview with Rhian Brewster in which the Liverpool player revealed he had experienced racial abuse five times in the previous seven months. The judges at the awards presentation in London said Taylor’s “pieces were powerful and had a major impact on football in this country”.

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