Tommy Taylor (footballer, born 1951)

Tommy Taylor

Personal information
Full name	Thomas Frederick Taylor
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Grenada (manager)

Thomas Frederick 'Tommy Tactics' Taylor (born 26 September 1951] in Hornchurch, London) is an English former footballer managing Grenada as of May 2009. As a footballer he played as a defender.

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 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.

After a spell in Belgium with K. Beerschot V.A.C. [1], 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. He didn't last long though, 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 Kings Lynn. He brought the ire of the fans in November 2006, joining bitter rivals Peterborough United as assistant to Keith Alexander. At the time of his departure Kings 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 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.

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

Honours

As a player

West Ham United

• FA Cup winner: 1974–75
• European Cup Winners' Cup runner-up: 1975–76

Managerial statistics

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Margate		1991	1991
Cambridge United		April 1995	November 1996	74	28	29	17	37.8
Leyton Orient		November 1996	October 2001	289	98	93	78	33.9
Darlington		October 2001	October 2002	53	15	25	13	28.3
Farnborough Town		May 2003	2003
King's Lynn		November 2004	November 2006
Peterborough United (caretaker)		15 January 2007	20 January 2007	1	0	1	0	0.00
Boston United		July 2007	November 2008
Grenada		July 2009	Present
FC Torrevieja		January 2010	march 2010

References

• Hogg, Tony (2005). Who's Who of West Ham United. Profile Sports Media. pp. 199–200. ISBN 1 903135 50 8.

External links

• Tommy Taylor at Soccerbase
• Tommy Taylor management career statistics at Soccerbase