Peter John Taylor

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Personal information
Peter Taylor
Full name	Peter John Taylor
Date of birth	January 3, 1953 (age 54)
Place of birth	Southend-on-Sea, England
Nickname	Porkchop Boy
Playing position	Manager (former Midfielder)
Club information
Current club	Crystal Palace
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1970-1973 1973-1976 1976-1980 1980-1983 1983 1983-1984	Southend United Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur Leyton Orient → Oldham Athletic (loan) Exeter City	075 0(12) 122 0(33) 123 0(31) 056 0(11) 004 00(0) 008 00(0)
National team
1975-1976	England	004 00(2)
Teams managed
1986-1990 1993-1995 1996-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2000 2001-2002 2002-2006 2004-2007 2006-	Dartford FC Southend United England U21 Gillingham Leicester City England (caretaker) Brighton & Hove Albion Hull City England U21 Crystal Palace
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

For the former Nottingham Forest goalkeeper, also a manager of Brighton & Hove Albion, who died in 1990, see Peter Thomas Taylor. For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor.

Peter John Taylor (born January 3, 1953 in Southend-on-Sea) is an English football manager. He is currently manager of Crystal Palace He was head coach of the England under-21 team until January 2007, when he quit. He also was the England national football team manager on a caretaker basis in 2000.

1 Playing career
2 Management career
3 Managerial stats
4 Career achievements/posts
5 External links

[edit] Playing career

Taylor had enjoyed a successful playing career as a winger, playing for Southend United, Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur, Leyton Orient and Oldham Athletic, as well as winning four international caps for England (despite being at Third Division Palace at the time), before embarking on a career as a coach and manager.

[edit] Management career

Peter Taylor became player manager at non-league club Dartford FC. In his four seasons there club attendances rose from 400 to around 1000, he won the Southern Cup twice and each season he was there Dartford scored over 100 goals. At club level, Peter Taylor spent two years (1993-1995) as manager of Southend United, but quit at the end of the 1994-95 season after failing to get them beyond the middle of the Division One table. He returned to club management four years later at the beginning of the 1999-2000 season with Gillingham, and at the end of the season guided them to victory over Wigan Athletic in the Division Two playoff final which marked the club's promotion to the upper half of the English league for the first time in their history. A few weeks later he left the club to take charge at Leicester City in the Premiership and for a few months he did well: for two weeks in October Leicester were Premiership leaders and there was much debate^{[attribution needed]} as to whether they could maintain their good form. But then things turned sour; nine defeats in their final ten Premiership fixtures (following a shock FA Cup quarter final defeat by Division Two strugglers Wycombe Wanderers) saw Leicester plummet down the Premiership table to finish 13th. This was despite spending £23 million on transfer fees, the most spent by a Leicester manager before or since.

Taylor was sacked two months after the start of the 2001-02 season, leaving Leicester penniless and rooted to the foot of the Premiership, but he returned to management within two weeks to take charge at Brighton whose previous manager Micky Adams had coincidentally become the new assistant manager of Leicester City. Having inherited a strong team, Taylor guided Brighton to the Division Two championship (marking their return to the upper half of the English league after an 11-year exile) but resigned from his job because he was frustrated at the club's lack of ambition and financial resources.

In November 2002 Peter Taylor was appointed manager of Hull City who were weeks away from their move to the 25,404-seat KC Stadium. Taylor was unable to guide Hull to anything higher than a mid-table finish (although they drew some of the largest crowds outside the Premiership) but in 2003-04 they achieved promotion as Division Three runners-up. They finished League One runners-up the following season, 2004-05, and were in the Football League Championship in the 2005-06 season – their first appearance at that level since 1990-91, and they finished 18th in the division. Among his signings at Hull was Junior Lewis, a player he had previously brought into four other clubs (Dover, Gillingham, Leicester and Brighton).

However this success led to bigger clubs calling, and Championship promotion contenders Crystal Palace and their chairman Simon Jordan agreed a £300,000 compensation package with Adam Pearson (chairman of Hull), and appointed Taylor on 13 June 2006.

He also began a second spell as England under-21 team coach on 8 July 2004 (the previous spell was from 1996 to 1999). He took charge of England's senior team for one game in November 2000 in which he significantly handed the captaincy to David Beckham. Taylor left as Under-21 coach on 25th January 2007. Stating the reasons why he left, Taylor said: "I can't do it any more and devote my time to helping the team ahead of June's European Under-21 Championship in Holland. Anybody coming in would have to commit a lot to the job. I'm sad but I've had a great time with England. I'm proud of having seen some players go on to the senior squad."

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	L	D	Win %
Southend United		August 1, 1993	February 22, 1995	84	27	41	16	32.14
Gillingham		July 7, 1999	June 12, 2000	62	34	16	12	54.83
Leicester City		June 12, 2000	September 30, 2001	54	19	26	9	35.18
Brighton & Hove Albion		October 17, 2001	May 31, 2002	38	21	6	11	55.26
Hull City		October 14, 2002	June 29, 2006	184	77	57	50	41.84
Crystal Palace		June 14, 2006	Present	42	16	16	10	38.09

[edit] Career achievements/posts

Preceded by Tony Taylor	Crystal Palace F.C. Player of The Year 1974	Succeeded by Derek Jeffries
Preceded by Derek Jeffries	Crystal Palace F.C. Player of The Year 1976	Succeeded by Kenny Sansom
Preceded by Barry Fry	Southend United F.C. Manager 1993-1995	Succeeded by Ronnie Whelan
Preceded by Dave Sexton	England national U-21 football team manager 1996-1999	Succeeded by Howard Wilkinson
Preceded by Tony Pulis	Gillingham F.C. Manager 1999-2000	Succeeded by Andy Hessenthaler
Preceded by Martin O'Neill	Leicester City F.C. Manager 2000-2001	Succeeded by Garry Parker
Preceded by Howard Wilkinson (caretaker)	England national football team manager 2000	Succeeded by Sven-Göran Eriksson
Preceded by Micky Adams	Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Manager 2001-2002	Succeeded by Martin Hinshelwood
Preceded by Jan Mølby	Hull City A.F.C. Manager 2002-2006	Succeeded by Phil Parkinson
Preceded by David Platt	England national U-21 football team manager 2004-2007	Succeeded by Stuart Pearce
Preceded by Iain Dowie	Crystal Palace F.C. Manager 2006-	Succeeded by Incumbent