[1] Taylor began his career at the Newark Advertiser and was a freelance journalist in Leicester and Manchester before joining The Guardian.
The London Press Club also honoured him in 2017 with its scoop of the year award and there have been further honours from the British Journalism Awards and the Foreign Press Association, which named him both sports journalist and news journalist of the year.
Taylor has also been commended for his exposure of a cover-up within the Football Association (FA) after the England women's footballer Eniola Aluko made complaints about alleged racial discrimination from the manager Mark Sampson.
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.
[3] His other publications include This is the One, a two-year diary of covering Alex Ferguson's time at Manchester United.