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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There has been a long history of sledging between England and Australia.
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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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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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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.
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There are no greater football critics than the players themselves. To be recognized by your fellow professionals from across the world is a unique honor. While we respect the many other football awards that are handed out I think it is special to see these results, the very first ballot among the world's players.
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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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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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We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.
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The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.
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In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.