Thomas Frederick Taylor (born 26 September 1951) is an English football manager and former
footballer
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. As a footballer, he played as a
defender.
Playing career
Taylor played for
Leyton Orient
Leyton Orient Football Club, commonly referred to as Orient, is a professional association football club based in Leyton, Waltham Forest, London, England. The team compete in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system. ...
, 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
West Ham United Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Stratford, London, Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English f ...
in October 1970 and was a member of the team that won the
FA Cup
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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.
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.
Managerial career
Taylor joined
Charlton Athletic
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Their home ground is ...
as youth coach. He moved into football management in
New Zealand
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for three years, then joined
Maidstone United as a coach in 1989.
Taylor became youth team manager at
Cambridge United
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in 1993 and went on to manage the first team in 1995. A year later, he returned to
Brisbane Road
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to manage Leyton Orient.
In 2001, after five years at the club, he left Leyton Orient and joined
Darlington
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, leaving in October 2002. Taylor then joined
Conference
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side
Farnborough Town, officially taking on the manager's role in May 2003.
In November 2004, Taylor was appointed manager at
King's Lynn
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. 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. On 15 January 2007, following the departure of Alexander, he was appointed caretaker manager. With the job going to
Darren Ferguson
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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
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The club is known as 'the ...
, who had recently been double-relegated from
League Two to the
Conference North
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.
Taylor was appointed manager of the
Grenada national football team
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in May 2009. His first game in charge of Grenada was a friendly against
Panama
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on 10 June 2009. Taylor contacted
Blackburn Rovers
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'
Jason Roberts,
Leeds United
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Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...
's
Jermaine Beckford and
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is a professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, England. The club competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. Their home ground since 2001 has been St Mary's Stadium, befor ...
's
Bradley Wright-Phillips
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in the hope of convincing the players to become eligible for Grenada. He led Grenada during their first CONCACAF Gold Cup appearance in 2009, where they were knocked out at the group stage.
He joined
CD 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.
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.
In 2013, Taylor was appointed as a manager of
PS Kemi Kings who play in the
Kakkonen
Kakkonen or II divisioona is the fourth level in the league system of Finnish football and comprises 36 Finnish football teams. Until the end of 2023, ''Kakkonen'' was the third-highest level in Finland, but after the creation of new second-t ...
, Finland's third tier.
In June 2019, Taylor was appointed as director of football for
Histon
Histon is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is immediately north of Cambridge – and is separated from the city – by the A14 road (England), A14 road which runs eas ...
.
Honours
West Ham United
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FA Cup
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1974–75
References
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NASL stats
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1951 births
Living people
Footballers from the London Borough of Havering
People from Hornchurch
English men's footballers
England men's under-23 international footballers
English expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Leyton Orient F.C. players
West Ham United F.C. players
Team Hawaii players
K. Beerschot V.A.C. players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Belgian Pro League players
English Football League players
English Football League managers
English football managers
Margate F.C. managers
Cambridge United F.C. managers
Leyton Orient F.C. managers
Darlington F.C. managers
Farnborough F.C. managers
King's Lynn F.C. managers
Peterborough United F.C. managers
Boston United F.C. managers
Grenada national football team managers
CD Torrevieja managers
Belper Town F.C. managers
Kemi City F.C. managers
Flekkerøy IL managers
Expatriate football managers in Finland
Expatriate football managers in Spain
Northern Premier League managers
Expatriate football managers in Grenada
National League (English football) managers
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
England men's youth international footballers
Cambridge United F.C. non-playing staff
English expatriate football managers
English expatriate sportspeople in Spain
English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
English expatriate sportspeople in Gibraltar
English expatriate sportspeople in Finland
English expatriate sportspeople in Norway
English expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate football managers in Gibraltar