Graham Taylor - dead

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Another manager that just didn't have that extra something that makes them world class he did what he did at a time there was no £200m+ annual windfalls to rely on
 
OF ALL pics designed to humiliate that one sticks out vividly in my mind... regretably it did translate the moment in that moment in time .. I don't think there can be or has been such an appropriate/ unappropriate situation since
 
OF ALL pics designed to humiliate that one sticks out vividly in my mind... regretably it did translate the moment in that moment in time .. I don't think there can be or has been such an appropriate/ unappropriate situation since
They (The Sun) did it again with David James's donkey ears, after he upended Zidane causing a penalty in a game against France - of course conveniently overlooking the fact that it was a horrendous backpass from Gerrard which put James in that impossible situation.......
 
He wasn't though. His record at club level is pretty good. He was just another victim of the poisoned chalice that is the England job.

He was way out of his depth at England level.

The documentary that followed him showed that very clearly.

Club level.. did ok.
 
Nice enough bloke..

Useless manager..

RIP.
That is the most idiotic statement I've read on Not606. So useless that he took Watford from Div.4 to Div.1 in 5 seasons, then from Div.3 to the Premier League in 3 seasons, took Villa back in his first season and then finished runners-up in his first season back at the top level - pretty useless eh?

Nice enough? You obviously never met him...
 
The "extra something" that Taylor didn't have as England manager was decent players available to him.


And you call people idiotic??


1 GK Chris Woods 14 November 1959 (aged 32) 31
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Sheffield Wednesday
2 DF Keith Curle 14 November 1963 (aged 28) 2
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Manchester City
3 DF Stuart Pearce 24 April 1962 (aged 30) 47
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Nottingham Forest
4 DF Martin Keown 24 July 1966 (aged 25) 6
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Everton
5 DF Des Walker 26 November 1965 (aged 26) 44
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Nottingham Forest
6 DF Mark Wright 1 August 1963 (aged 28) 42
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Liverpool
7 MF David Platt 10 June 1966 (aged 25) 29
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Bari
8 MF Trevor Steven 21 September 1963 (aged 28) 34
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Marseille
9 FW Nigel Clough 19 March 1966 (aged 26) 7
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Nottingham Forest
10 FW Gary Lineker (captain) 30 November 1960 (aged 31) 77
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Tottenham Hotspur
11 MF Andy Sinton 19 March 1966 (aged 26) 4
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Queens Park Rangers
12 MF Carlton Palmer 5 December 1965 (aged 26) 4
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Sheffield Wednesday
13 GK Nigel Martyn 11 August 1966 (aged 25) 2
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Crystal Palace
14 DF Tony Dorigo 31 December 1965 (aged 26) 10
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Leeds United
15 MF Neil Webb 30 July 1963 (aged 28) 24
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Manchester United
16 MF Paul Merson 20 March 1968 (aged 24) 5
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Arsenal
17 FW Alan Smith 21 November 1962 (aged 29) 11
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Arsenal
18 MF Tony Daley 18 October 1967 (aged 24) 5
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Aston Villa
19 MF David Batty 2 December 1968 (aged 23) 8
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Leeds United
20 FW Alan Shearer
 
The Turnip story was a disgrace - but coming from that newspaper we should not be surprised

I always thought that Graham Taylor was a bit like Bobby Robson in that he loved talking about football to anyone