Gordon Taylor (footballer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Gordon Taylor (footballer)

English footballer, trade union leader

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1944

Place of Birth: Ashton-under-Lyne, England, United Kingdom

Profession: association football player, trade unionist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Gordon Taylor (footballer)

  • Gordon Alexander Taylor OBE (born 28 December 1944) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.
  • He has been chief executive of the English footballers' trades union, the Professional Footballers' Association, since 1981.
  • In March 2019 it was reported that he is to stand down after the completion of a "full and open review" into the PFA's finances is presented at its 2019 AGM, along with its entire management committee and chairman Ben Purkiss.
  • He is reputed to be the highest paid union official in the world.Taylor was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.
  • He played over 250 matches for Bolton Wanderers and scored more than 50 goals before being transferred to Birmingham City in 1970.
  • He joined Blackburn Rovers in 1976 and spent the 1977 close season playing in the North American Soccer League for the Vancouver Whitecaps.
  • He returned to play for Blackburn and finally Bury before retiring in 1980 to work full-time for the PFA.Taylor has a degree in economics and was in 2007 a member of FIFA's football committee.
  • He is an alumnus of Manchester Metropolitan University.He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.His mobile phone messages were allegedly hacked by a private investigator employed by the News of the World newspaper.
  • The Guardian reported that News International (the owner of the News of the World) paid Taylor £700,000 ($1.1 million) in legal costs and damages in exchange for a confidentiality agreement barring him from speaking about the case.

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