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 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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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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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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This has everything to do with that investigation into the Roseville-based Capitol Com-passionate Care.
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In cricket there has been a long history of sledging between England and Australia,
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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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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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This testing is not acceptable. It is a total invasion of their privacy,
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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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I know so many players who say they wouldn't 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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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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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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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.