More like temporary clerical officer
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Graham Taylor, ex-England football manager, has died aged 72.
Do I not like that -
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Sorry to hear that.
I quite liked hearing Graham’s regular insights on football on Irish radio over the past few years.
He seemed like a nice man.
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One of the good guys.
+1. He came across as an alright sort but will be mainly remembered for that disastrous spell in charge of England.
That’s a turnip for the books.
R.I.P. Graham, a gentleman.
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True but he did have an excellent career in club management in England, taking Watford from the fourth division to a 2nd place finish in Division 1 in 1983, and Aston Villa from the second division to a 2nd place finish in the first division in 1990. Impressive stuff by any standards, even if his style of football wasn’t to my liking.
That news makes me sad, carried himself remarkably well during and after that fiasco. 72 is no age these days.
Christ but Taylor was a woeful English manager. Carlton Palmer being a regular was my memory of the time.
He was a visionary in a xenophobic game. I think the first television coverage of him is in his capacity as Lincoln City manager and the camera follows him home where he is sitting up at nights learning foreign languages, because he understands that that is the way the game is going.
He had no issue with playing black players either at a time when they were a rarity in the game. He gave John Barnes and Luther Blissett their starts at Watford.
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Andy Sinton as well, but who should he have been picking in your opinion?
Graham Taylor was also a key figure in Paul McGrath’s career both in football and in personal terms and Paul always speaks very highly of him.
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When he was manager of England their clubs had just come out of the post Heysel ban on English clubs, so there was a dearth of sophistication and European nous in the English game
Jesus he was on OTB often enough and always sounded in good health.
When was he last on kid?
Imagine someone who had previously been in good health dying.
My twitter timeline is full of football journalists and ex-players detailing public and private acts of kindness and support from Graham Taylor.
TFK called this one correctly as ever.
Exactly. And not a bad word was uttered about him on TFK when the media were hounding him during his time as England manager.
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