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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In cricket there has been a long history of sledging between England and Australia,
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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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You can never be certain whether someone can do the job or not until you actually give it to them, but when I look around there are enough good, young English coaches to persuade me at least one should be given the opportunity.
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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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This testing is not acceptable. It is a total invasion of their privacy,
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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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This guy wanted to be on the inside. Today he got that opportunity as two DEA agents took him to jail and actually put him behind bars.
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answer why you weren't at the meeting when rest of the FIFA family was there.
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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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But this is a worrying pattern for English football. Are our stars of the future getting the opportunities they need?