Graham Taylor has died.

[Furmedge]

Decent man, but released a truly awful Amiga game.

[Arl arse]

He done an amazing job with Watford, they had some boss players in his first stint in change.

 

Thanks for John Barnes Graham. Rest easy.

[Stouffer]

I sat next to him on a flight to Zagreb once; he was sound.

[Sparky]

I remember listening to one of our games on the radio a couple of months into the 2005/06 season when a lot was being made of Peter Crouch having played for 24 hours without scoring his first goal for Liverpool.  The main commentator asked Taylor for his thoughts on this and he said' "It's a load of nonsense, it's only one day. Probably a Monday. And who gets anything done on a Monday? Nobody." Never a truer word spoken.

[Joe Strummer]

Lovely bloke.

 

[Creator Supreme]

Came across as a lovely bloke, performed miracles with Watford, did well with Villa, great co-commentator on 5 live.

 

Fuck England!

 

RIP sir.

[SOFTLAD]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/06/graham-taylor-told-not-pick-too-many-black-players-fa-england

 

A decent manager and reliable pundit, pity he didn't sort this lot once and for all.

[G Richards]

Sad to hear the news. Seemed a decent bloke, and was a much better football man than the S*n would have the nation believe. Lots of good football people have become involved with the England job only to see their reputation suffer. It's a bit of a poisoned chalice and is probably why England are now going for managers with no reputation, as such, to ruin!

 

Graham Taylor RIP.

[Harry Squatter]

Loved it when he had a go at some knobhead journo from the Express called Rob Shepherd. I think he'd wrote an article about him slagging him off and Taylor ripped into him at a press conference and made him look a twat in front of about a hundred people.

[General Dryness]

Sad news. Seemed like a nice guy. The press are cunts.

[razor]

He should never have agreed to that documentary, but I'm so glad he did.  There's some brilliant stuff in it - "Cheer up, Rob.  Look at you, man" / "You tell him, Les" / "Can we not knock it?" etc.

 

But aside from that England stuff he was a successful manager.

 

Latterly he was also a brilliant, insightful and entertaining pundit.  When he said stuff he was always worth listening to.  He's forgotten more about football than the morons who tried to humiliate him will ever know.

[Bjornebye]

Loved it when he had a go at some knobhead journo from the Express called Rob Shepherd. I think he'd wrote an article about him slagging him off and Taylor ripped into him at a press conference and made him look a twat in front of about a hundred people.

He was no Joe Kinnear

[VladimirIlyich]

Always came across as a really nice man. Enjoyed his punditry, and sorry not to hear that distinctive voice again.

Pretty much agree with this. The England job wasn't a good move but after he was ridiculed by the press during his tenure there it became apparent in later media work and interviews and tv analysis that he knew his stuff.

Sorry to hear of his passing.

[Josef Svejk]

For some reason, my first thought when I read the thread title earlier was...

 

 

Sadly, my error.

[Juniper]

I liked him, again the press are cunts.

 

Sad to hear of his passing. Seemed one of the good guys.

[Juniper]

This clip with Digger getting abuse off the Ingurland fans doing the rounds this evening.

 

Class from him.

 

https://twitter.com/bigsportgb/status/819588641055981568

[s(k)aturation]

Bloody hell, completely forgot about Villa.

 

2nd to us twice, with different clubs.

 

That's about as good as anyone in those days.

[Stickman]

Loved it when he had a go at some knobhead journo from the Express called Rob Shepherd. I think he'd wrote an article about him slagging him off and Taylor ripped into him at a press conference and made him look a twat in front of about a hundred people.

As well as being a decent bloke he was obviously not a bad judge of character

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jan/09/pressandpublishing.dailyexpress

[skend04]

By the way is it just a coincidence that the last 2 major British departures have been intrinsically linked to Sir Elton?

[thompsonsnose]

I remember watching that doc 'do I not like that' until the video was near worn out. My mate did a great impression of him and I wasn't bad at Lawrie mcmenemy 'bacon and eggs boss'

Its addictive. Ive got it on VHS somewhere.

Phil "Yes Boss" Neal, also fucking hilarious.

[Dr Nowt]

Was given power to veto anything he wanted from The Inside Job (per its producer) but felt that would lack integrity so allowed them to show the lot, knowing it would play badly for him. Aside from anything else I always found that hugely refreshing.

 

Bags of charm to Taylor that is sadly absent from the majority of people now involved in football. And let's face it, said documentary was absolute comedy gold dust and for me will stand the test of time in always being able to crease me up.

[Harry Squatter]

Lad on my Facebook posted a photo of him posing with a Liverpool flag with a few Liverpool fans. The photo was taken when we played Atletico Madrid and all flights were cancelled during volcanic explosion in Iceland. He was on the same Eurostar train as he was covering the game as a pundit. All the lads commenting said he was a great fella and spoke to them about football for ages.

[Bjornebye]

By the way is it just a coincidence that the last 2 major British departures have been intrinsically linked to Sir Elton?

Thought that myself yesterday. He has a UK tour coming up..... interesting

[Arl arse]

For some reason, my first thought when I read the thread title earlier was...

 

 

Sadly, my error.

I want that cunt to live long enough to see the inside of a prison cell for his lies and peddling of bullshit.

[BCM]

Sad Loss to football. His achievements as a manager sadly didnt get the recognition they deserved Outside of Villa/ Watford.

 

Always enjoyed his punditry as well, He knew his stuff about the game, Not like a lot of the knobheads we have to put up with these days.