Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor (15 September 1944 – 12 January 2017) was an English football player, manager, pundit and chairman of Watford Football Club. He was the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993, and also managed Lincoln City, Watford, Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers.Born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Taylor grew up in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, which he regarded as his hometown. The son of a sports journalist who worked on the ''Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph'', Taylor found his love of football in the stands of the Old Show Ground watching Scunthorpe United. He became a professional player, playing at full back for Grimsby Town and Lincoln City. After retiring as a result of injury in 1972, Taylor became a manager and coach. He won the Fourth Division title with Lincoln in 1976, before moving to Watford in 1977. He took Watford from the Fourth Division to the First in five years. Under Taylor, Watford were First Division runners-up in 1982–83, and FA Cup finalists in 1984. Taylor took over at Aston Villa in 1987, leading the club to promotion in 1988 and 2nd place in the First Division in 1989–90.
In July 1990, he became the manager of the England team. They qualified for the 1992 European Championship but were knocked out in the group stages. Taylor resigned in November 1993, after the team failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States. Taylor faced heavy criticism from fans and media during his tenure as England manager and earned additional public interest and scrutiny when a television documentary, ''An Impossible Job'', which he had permitted to film the failed campaign from behind the scenes, aired in 1994. Taylor returned to club management in March 1994 with Wolverhampton Wanderers. After one season at Molineux, he returned to Watford, and led the club to the Premier League in 1999 after back-to-back promotions. His last managerial role was manager of Aston Villa, to which he returned in 2002. He left at the end of the 2002–03 season. Taylor served as Watford's chairman from 2009 until 2012, after which he held the position of honorary life-president. He also worked as a pundit for BBC Radio Five Live.
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6by Karl Payne, Matthew Pugh, Jill Brooks, Nikolaos Batis, Graham Taylor, Paul Nankivell, Hisham MehannaGet full text
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9by Natalia Neverova, Christian Wolf, Griffin Lacey, Lex Fridman, Deepak Chandra, Brandon Barbello, Graham TaylorGet full text
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11by Quy-Dung Dinh, Quy-Dung Dinh, Annemarie Dechesne, Heleen Furrer, Graham Taylor, Richard G. F. Visser, Jeremy Harbinson, Luisa M. TrindadeGet full text
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13by Sarah L. Nickerson, Renate Marquis-Nicholson, Karen Claxton, Fern Ashton, Ivone U. S. Leong, Debra O. Prosser, Jennifer M. Love, Alice M. George, Graham Taylor, Callum Wilson, R. J. McKinlay Gardner, Donald R. LoveGet full text
Published 2015-10-01
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14by Christopher M Watson, Mohammed El-Asrag, David A Parry, Joanne E Morgan, Clare V Logan, Ian M Carr, Eamonn Sheridan, Ruth Charlton, Colin A Johnson, Graham Taylor, Carmel Toomes, Martin McKibbin, Chris F Inglehearn, Manir AliGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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15by Nikki Mulligan, Stein Schalkwijk, Brookie M. Best, Angela Colbers, Jiajia Wang, Edmund V. Capparelli, José Moltó, Alice M. Stek, Graham Taylor, Elizabeth Smith, Carmen Hidalgo-Tenorio, Nahida Chakhtoura, Marjo van Kasteren, Courtney V. Fletcher, Mark Mirochnick, David BurgerGet full text
Published 2016-08-01
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16by Nicole Brenner, Alexander J Mentzer, Julia Butt, Kathrin L Braband, Angelika Michel, Katie Jeffery, Paul Klenerman, Barbara Gärtner, Paul Schnitzler, Adrian Hill, Graham Taylor, Maria A Demontis, Edward Guy, Stephen J Hadfield, Rachael Almond, Naomi Allen, Michael Pawlita, Tim WaterboerGet full text
Published 2019-01-01
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17by Dorota Rowczenio, Maria Stensland, Gustavo A. de Souza, Erik H. Strøm, Janet A. Gilbertson, Graham Taylor, Nigel Rendell, Shane Minogue, Yvonne A. Efebera, Helen J. Lachmann, Ashutosh D. Wechalekar, Philip N. Hawkins, Ketil R. Heimdal, Kristian Selvig, Inger K. Lægreid, Nathalie Demoulin, Selda Aydin, Julian D. Gillmore, Tale N. WienGet full text
Published 2017-05-01
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18by Miriam Samuel, Daniel Bradshaw, Melissa Perry, Sum Yee Chan, Rageshri Dhairyawan, Laura Byrne, Katherine Smith, Judith Zhou, Charlotte Eve Short, Claire Naftalin, Ngozi Offodile, Sundhiya Mandalia, Sherie Roedling, Rimi Shah, Gary Brook, Mary Poulton, Mette Rodgers, Liat Sarner, Heather Noble, Philip Hay, Jane Anderson, Macky Natha, David Hawkins, Graham Taylor, Annemiek de RuiterGet full text
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