GOALKEEPER Martin Taylor has won the Delbeck Champagne/Bucks Free Press Player of the Year award for the second year running.

The glovesman, who is the only player to have appeared in all 63 of Wanderers' first team matches this season, received the trophy from BFP reader Sandra Muir before Saturday's final match of the season against Colchester United.

Her name was picked out from the hundreds of fans who voted for the former Derby County shotstopper to make him the clearest winner in the competition's history.

He won the award by a landslide ahead of defenders Paul McCarthy, who was second, and Jason Cousins who claimed third.

Taylor, 34, retained the title he won last year thanks to a series of stunning displays between the sticks which made him the overwhelming choice of the Adams Park faithful.

His performances were a major factor in Wanderers' epic run to the semi-finals of the FA Cup this season.

He saved two penalties in the fifth round replay win at Wimbledon, including one in the last minute of normal time, before stepping up to score Wycombe's winning penalty in their 8-7 shootout victory against the Dons which put them into the quarter-finals of the famous competition.

He then produced a wonder-stop to help knock Premiership Leicester City out in the quarter-finals before shutting out Liverpool and England hotshot Michael Owen in the semi-final which Blues lost 2-1.

It is the third player of the year title Taylor has collected during his career. He received his first accolade when he was between the sticks at Derby and he will return to the Premiership club's Pride Park HQ next week to present Derby's Player of the Season trophy.

For Taylor all this attention is a bonus. While he was at Derby he was told he wouldn't play again after a horrific broken leg sustained in a challenge with Southend's Dave Regis.

For a year he could hardly walk but he has battled back to fitness and after being brought to Adams Park by John Gregory he has firmly established himself as Wycombe's number one.