Gordon Taylor
Gordon Taylor
Gordon Alexander Taylor OBEis an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He has been chief executive of the English footballers' trades union, the Professional Footballers' Association, since 1981. He is reputed to be the highest paid union official in the world...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth28 December 1944
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David Beckham is a patriot, and I am sure he will help in any way he can. Beckham needs to be part of any future plans to remould the England set-up. Beckham and players like him need to be integrated into the set-up in the same way that the Germans take on board former players from Beckenbauer to Rummenigge.
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There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.
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You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'
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I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.
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The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.
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Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future?
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He has been the cornerstone, not just of the Chelsea defense, but the whole foundations on which their success over the last couple of years has been built. John is the one person you would want alongside you in the trenches because he is strong, dependable, reliable and fearless.
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We really rely on the public trust to do our job. If the public can't trust that the person they're actually being in contact with is a law enforcement officer, that makes our jobs a lot more difficult and puts our agents in harm's way.
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We have more non-English players in our league than any other country in the world.
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The proposals being put out are far too ambiguous from our point of view. They looked as though there had been a hidden agenda to maintain the status quo,
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The Spanish FA have been given a yellow card, not the red that many would have expected,
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answer why you weren't at the meeting when rest of the FIFA family was there.
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In cricket there has been a long history of sledging between England and Australia,
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It's good that we are involved with the Football League Under-21 game, with games such as this cheaper for youngsters. It's good to encourage that, rather than having armchair fans who cannot afford prices.