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Post by lagwafis on Jan 12, 2017 14:40:25 GMT
RIP
His record at Watford was nothing short of outstanding. Taking them from Division Four to top flight runners up and an FA Cup final in the space of six years. In his second spell he again dragged them from the Second Division to the Premiership with back to back promotions.
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Post by Pugsley on Jan 12, 2017 15:00:01 GMT
Can we not knock it....
RIP Graham Taylor
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Post by staffsvilla on Jan 12, 2017 15:33:32 GMT
A great manager, a great bloke and a man who will never be forgotten for what he did at The Villa, not only what he did but the way he did it, even when he was under pressure he always had time for us the fans and I'll challenge any clubs fans to better the send off we gave him at goodison Park 1990, some of the abuse both professionally and personally he took while England manager he took in his usual dignified way and that says more about the man he was than any records or achievements during his career!
RIP "SIR" GRAHAM TAYLOR
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Post by jarvinski on Jan 12, 2017 15:34:42 GMT
RIP Graham, a genuinley nice man, came across to me and Zigger outside the club shop about 5years ago and started a very interesting conversation with us about SCFC
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Post by sharonbeech21 on Jan 12, 2017 15:39:17 GMT
Shocked and saddened by this. Great club manager. Had hard time with England. Sincere condolences to his family and many friends a really nice man. RIP Graham God Bless xx
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Jan 12, 2017 16:25:11 GMT
HelIs Bells
Graham Taylor RIP
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Post by salopstick on Jan 12, 2017 16:40:00 GMT
yes RIP Graham x probably wasn't the finest man ever to manage England but his integrity, hard work and likeability never came into question Exactly this. It's outrageous how the tabloids hounded him from the start. According to all the ex pros and football people giving quotes he was a very decent man
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 16:49:23 GMT
RIP, seemed a genuinely decent bloke.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 16:51:33 GMT
R.I.P.
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Post by lordherefordsknob on Jan 12, 2017 17:44:46 GMT
Met him on a flight to Majorca a few years ago, really nice guy had time for a chat and photo with anyone that asked.
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Post by bathstoke on Jan 12, 2017 18:02:12 GMT
V SadXx
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Post by madasasnake on Jan 12, 2017 18:11:35 GMT
I always liked him because he was an absolute gentleman.
When we won promotion away at Notts County in 1979, my Dad took me to the game and arranged to meet up with an old school friend of his and his family in the Post House Hotel in Nottingham after the game; my Dad hadn't seen his friend for years and he and his family were travelling up from Colchester.
The first delight of the early evening was when the Stoke squad came in; they had obviously stayed there the night before and many of the squad signed my programme.
The second was when Graham Taylor came over, sat down and proceeded to chat to us for about 15 minutes about how great it was for a proper side like Stoke to be back in Division One. He had seen my Stoke scarf from across the room and he just wandered over, ruffled my hair, sat down and said that I must be delighted.
It was a lovely gesture; I seem to recall that Watford were very close to their second successive promotion and had played somewhere over that way and had won that day. They still had a couple of games to go but he was very positive about their prospects and rightly so as it turned out.
It was that meeting that always made me feel so sorry for him when the media turned on him a few years later; he didn't deserve that.
And if my memory serves me correctly, didn't he give Mark Chamberlain his first England Cap?
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Jan 12, 2017 18:36:28 GMT
Thoroughly decent and intelligent gentleman.Excellent club manager,forever tainted and haunted by that documentary.
RIP.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 12, 2017 18:53:12 GMT
One of football's good guys!
RIP Graham. You deserved better from the tabloid press.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 18:55:51 GMT
I always liked him because he was an absolute gentleman. When we won promotion away at Notts County in 1979, my Dad took me to the game and arranged to meet up with an old school friend of his and his family in the Post House Hotel in Nottingham after the game; my Dad hadn't seen his friend for years and he and his family were travelling up from Colchester. The first delight of the early evening was when the Stoke squad came in; they had obviously stayed there the night before and many of the squad signed my programme. The second was when Graham Taylor came over, sat down and proceeded to chat to us for about 15 minutes about how great it was for a proper side like Stoke to be back in Division One. He had seen my Stoke scarf from across the room and he just wandered over, ruffled my hair, sat down and said that I must be delighted. It was a lovely gesture; I seem to recall that Watford were very close to their second successive promotion and had played somewhere over that way and had won that day. They still had a couple of games to go but he was very positive about their prospects and rightly so as it turned out. It was that meeting that always made me feel so sorry for him when the media turned on him a few years later; he didn't deserve that. And if my memory serves me correctly, didn't he give Mark Chamberlain his first England Cap? Bobby Robson gave Chamberlain his debut mate in '82
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 18:58:43 GMT
Always enjoyed his commentaries as well, very analytical but always fair and constructive. Still criminal how the likes of Taylor, Jimmy Armfield etc have been pushed to one side for bland commentators such as Kilbane, Phil Neville and Martin Keown
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Post by woodstein on Jan 12, 2017 19:00:18 GMT
RIP to a pleasant, friendly man. Saw his rise up the managing ladder when his Lincoln team ( who probably won't get much of a mention if any ) thrashed Bradford City away 5-0 ( I think!) in the 70's.
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Post by thevoid on Jan 12, 2017 19:07:55 GMT
RIP.
Seemed a really decent bloke and despite a dodgy spell as England boss, at least we never lost to anyone as lowly as Iceland.
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Post by madasasnake on Jan 12, 2017 19:09:49 GMT
I always liked him because he was an absolute gentleman. When we won promotion away at Notts County in 1979, my Dad took me to the game and arranged to meet up with an old school friend of his and his family in the Post House Hotel in Nottingham after the game; my Dad hadn't seen his friend for years and he and his family were travelling up from Colchester. The first delight of the early evening was when the Stoke squad came in; they had obviously stayed there the night before and many of the squad signed my programme. The second was when Graham Taylor came over, sat down and proceeded to chat to us for about 15 minutes about how great it was for a proper side like Stoke to be back in Division One. He had seen my Stoke scarf from across the room and he just wandered over, ruffled my hair, sat down and said that I must be delighted. It was a lovely gesture; I seem to recall that Watford were very close to their second successive promotion and had played somewhere over that way and had won that day. They still had a couple of games to go but he was very positive about their prospects and rightly so as it turned out. It was that meeting that always made me feel so sorry for him when the media turned on him a few years later; he didn't deserve that. And if my memory serves me correctly, didn't he give Mark Chamberlain his first England Cap? Bobby Robson gave Chamberlain his debut mate in '82 Cheers Prestwich, I'm sure that you are right, all I remember clearly is it being against Luxembourg. I was probably led into error by an interview I once saw with Graham Taylor when he spent about five minutes saying how exciting he thought that an England side would be with John Barnes on the left and Mark Chamberlain on the right!
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Post by jarhead on Jan 12, 2017 19:16:29 GMT
Shockingingly sad news.
'I'm a metre'
RIP Graham
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Post by PotteringThrough on Jan 12, 2017 19:51:44 GMT
RIP Mr Taylor
Echo a lot of what has been said above, seemed like a genuinely nice man and a very knowledgeable football man!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 21:44:40 GMT
Always seemed to be a nice, genuine guy, and a real 100% football man and performed miracles with Watford. He had more management credentials and ability than Woy Hodgson and many other of today's so called top managers.
It was shameful the way that the gutter press treated him but he battled through it with dignity. No doubt those same papers will show their usual hypocrisy tomorrow with their obituaries for Graham.
R.I.P. Graham Taylor
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Post by johnnypotter on Jan 12, 2017 22:23:16 GMT
Vey sad news, a true gentleman and football crazy. R.I.P Graham.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Jan 12, 2017 23:10:19 GMT
RIP came across as a really nice and genuine person who was happy to talk to anyone. Very sad.
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Post by madnellie on Jan 13, 2017 4:55:37 GMT
Very sad to read this, have never seen or heard a bad word about him other than from certain sections of the press. A truly great manager who had a very unlucky spell with England and got pilloried for it. I was always impressed by his good grace in the wake of the media abuse and I loved to hear his opinions on the game. His knowledge and unbiased honesty was so refreshing in this age of bland, clueless punditry. I never met the guy so it feels odd to say it but I will genuinely miss him. God bless you GT, thoughts and prayers with those close to him.
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