Daniel Taylor

Daniel Taylor is a British journalist who has been the chief football writer for The Guardian and The Observer since 2012, having joined the newspaper in 2000. In March 2017 he won news reporter of the year and sports journalist of the year at The Press Awards for his series of stories about child sexual abuse in football.

He also won the Sports Journalists' Association football writer of the year in both 2015 and 2016 as well as the scoop of the year prize for his investigation into the abuse scandal. The London Press Club also honoured him in 2017 with its scoop of the year award.

He began his career at the Newark Advertiser and was a freelance journalist for several years in Leicester and Manchester before joining The Guardian in 1999. Originally from Nottinghamshire, he is based in Manchester and London.

In November 2015 he published I Believe in Miracles, a book on the rise of Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough, to accompany the film of the same name. He is a lifelong Nottingham Forest fan and has written another book about the club, Deep into the Forest, published in 2011. His other publications include This is the One, a two-year diary of covering Alex Ferguson's time at Manchester United.