The Guardian's Jonathan Liew named sports writer of the year at SJA Awards
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SJA praises Liew’s ‘abundant style’ and ‘insight and emotion’
Guardian’s Andy Bull and Tom Jenkins also receive top prizes
The Guardian’s Jonathan Liew, Andy Bull and Tom Jenkins have been honoured with top prizes at the British Sports Journalism Awards, with Liew being named sports writer of the year.
Announcing Liew’s award, Patrick Collins, the president of the Sports Journalists’ Association, said: “It has always been a measure of the great British sports writers to be able to deflate the egos of the most pompous players, managers and officials. Our winner does that with abundant style. And our winner also writes with genuine insight and emotion about issues that link sport to the hardest of international news stories like the killing of George Floyd.” Continue reading...