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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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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If he can stay clear of injury and he continues to develop the way he has, there is no end to what he can achieve.
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The commission have said to us they will not come to any agreement without our approval,
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These individuals have all shown outstanding team work and determination during their professional careers - I know they are dedicated to making the PFA Borneo Cup 2006 a huge success, by ensuring that their teams complete the challenge and raise the funds to provide life-altering equipment for the beneficiaries of Children Today.
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This has everything to do with that investigation into the Roseville-based Capitol Com-passionate Care.
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All I know is they're looking to take stronger action now,
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I know so many players who say they wouldnt 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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Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.
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Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.
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Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.
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Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.
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Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.
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People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.