Mark Ogden named Football Journalist of the Year The Telegraph's Northern Football Correspondent Mark Ogden was on Monday night named Football Journalist of the Year at the annual Northwest Football Awards in Manchester. The story was just one of many highlights in a year when Ogden proved again that his coverage of the two Manchester clubs is unrivalled - a fact recognised on Monday night. The BBC's Dan Walker, presenting the awards, said: "There was a real pool of talent competing for this award but one stood out from the crowd. May 8 is a date etched in the consciousness of football as the day Sir Alex Ferguson resigned, and there was one journalist who had the courage of his convictions and his contacts, and who was the first to bring the story to a wider audience. For that, there can be only one winner: Mark Ogden.