He won the Paul Foot Award for investigations into Conservative peer Michelle Mone, who profited from the PPE contracts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He also ghost-wrote the autobiographies of the 100m hurdles world record holder Colin Jackson and former Manchester United player Lee Sharpe.
In December 2013 he was named Sports Journalist of the Year in the Press Gazette British Journalism Awards.
[3] His 2009 article for The Guardian, detailing the bereaved Hillsborough families' continuing campaign for justice, prompted the then Labour ministers Andy Burnham and Maria Eagle to press for all official documents relating to the disaster to be released.
[citation needed] In 2011 he presented a BBC Inside Out documentary that looked into the ownership issues of Leeds United.