Tommy Taylor (footballer, born 1951)

Tommy Taylor
Personal information
Full nameThomas Frederick Taylor
Date of birth26 September 1951
Place of birthHornchurch, Essex, England
Playing positionDefender (retired)
Club information
Current team
Fløy (manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1966–1970Leyton Orient114(4)
1970–1979West Ham United340(8)
1977→ Team Hawaii (loan)19(0)
1979–1982Leyton Orient116(5)
1982–1983Beerschot27(0)
Total616(17)
National team
1971–1973England U-2313(0)
Teams managed
1991Margate
1995–1996Cambridge United
1996–2001Leyton Orient
2001–2002Darlington
2003Farnborough Town
2004–2006King's Lynn
2007Peterborough United (caretaker)
2007–2008Boston United
2009–2010Grenada
2011Belper Town
2013-2014PS Kemi Kings
2015-Fløy
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Thomas Frederick Taylor (born 26 September 1951 in Hornchurch, Essex) is an English football manager and former footballer. As a footballer, he played as a defender. He is the current manager of Flekkerøy IL in the 2. Divisjon, Norwegen's third tier.[1]

Playing career

Taylor played for Leyton Orient, helping them to promotion to Division Two, and captained the England youth team. He won 13 caps for the England Under-23 team, but never made a senior appearance.

Taylor joined West Ham United in October 1970 and was a member of the team that won the FA Cup in 1975. In 1977 he played for Team Hawaii of North American Soccer League from May to August of this year on loan from West Ham.[2] He returned to Orient in 1979 after losing his place in the Hammers side to Alvin Martin. He played a total of 396 games and scored eight goals for the Hammers.

Taylor had a spell in Belgium with K Beerschot.[3]

Managerial career

Taylor joined Charlton Athletic as youth coach. He moved into football management in New Zealand for three years, then joined Maidstone United as a coach in 1989.

Taylor became youth team manager at Cambridge United in 1993 and went on to manage the first team in 1995. A year later, he returned to Brisbane Road to manage Leyton Orient.

In 2001, after five years at the club, he left Orient and joined Darlington, leaving in October 2002. Taylor then joined Conference side Farnborough Town, officially taking on the manager's role in May 2003.

In November 2004, Taylor was appointed manager at King's Lynn. In 2006 he joined rivals Peterborough United as assistant to Keith Alexander. At the time of his departure King's Lynn were top of the Southern League.[4] On 15 January 2007, following the departure of Alexander, he was appointed caretaker manager.[5] With the job going to Darren Ferguson five days later, Taylor became number two once again, after overseeing one loss for the club.

In July 2007 he left Peterborough to become manager of Boston United, who had recently been double-relegated from League Two to the Conference North.[6]

Taylor was appointed manager of the Grenada national football team in May 2009.[7] His first game in charge of Grenada was friendly against Panama on 10 June 2009. Taylor contacted Blackburn Rovers'Jason Roberts, Leeds United's Jermaine Beckford and Southampton F.C.'s Bradley Wright-Phillips in the hope of convincing the players to become eligible for Grenada.[8]

He joined FC Torrevieja, in Alicante, Spain, as Director of Football, in January 2010 but left three months later.

In May 2011 he was appointed as manager of Belper Town.[9] In September of that year Taylor resigned as Belper manager after a poor start to the season which saw them exit the FA Cup to lower level opponents.[10]

In 2013, Taylor was appointed as a manager of PS Kemi Kings who play in the Kakkonen, Finland's third tier.[11]

Honours

As a player

West Ham United

Managerial statistics

Team Nat From To Record
GWLDWin %
Margate England 1991 1991
Cambridge United England April 1995 November 1996 7428291737.8
Leyton Orient England November 1996 October 2001 28998937833.9
Darlington England October 2001 October 2002 5315251328.3
Farnborough Town England May 2003 2003
King's Lynn England November 2004 November 2006
Peterborough United (caretaker) England 15 January 2007 20 January 2007 10100.00
Boston United England July 2007 November 2008
Grenada Grenada July 2009 January 2010
FC Torrevieja Spain January 2010 March 2010
Belper Town England May 2011 September 2011
PS Kemi Kings Finland November 2012 October 2014

References

  1. ↑ Fløy er det et helt nytt trenerteam på plass i engelske Tommy Taylor
  2. ↑ "North American Soccer League Players". nasljerseys.com. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  3. ↑ http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/tommytaylor.html
  4. ↑ "Taylor takes Posh coaching role". BBC News. 6 November 2006.
  5. ↑ "Posh part company with Alexander". BBC News. 15 January 2007.
  6. ↑ "Boston appoint Taylor as manager". BBC News. 13 July 2007.
  7. ↑ "Taylor handed Grenada role". FIFA. 23 May 2009.
  8. ↑ "As Spice Boyz Prep For Concacaf". Grenada Broadcast. 30 August 2006.
  9. ↑ "Ex-Hammer Taylor gets nod as new Belper boss". thisisderbyshire.co.uk. 11 May 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  10. ↑ "Duffied takes Belper helm". Non League Daily. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  11. ↑ Former Cambridge United manager Tommy Taylor putting the Finnishing touches to a great campaign

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