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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There has been a long history of sledging between England and Australia.
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I think the general feeling in England will be one that the sanction is far too lenient, and I would be one of those who thinks that way.
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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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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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In cricket there has been a long history of sledging between England and Australia,
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Brazil wouldn't appoint a foreign coach, Germany wouldn't, Italy wouldn't, Spain wouldn't and neither would France or Holland, so why should we?
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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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At the moment, it's all got to be confidential because I don't want people to jump to conclusions. There needs to be a proper hearing, second test and then the player's response.
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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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It could well be - unless there's a very substantial reason as to why this is positive that is to be understood - anything from six months to two years.
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But this is a worrying pattern for English football. Are our stars of the future getting the opportunities they need?
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Many of these operators will say they're just concerned about the seriously or terminally ill, but their true agenda is to line their pockets with drug money.