Gordon Taylor's grandstanding can-do style outlived its usefulness | Barney Ronay


With the chief executive finally on his way it is time the PFA joined the modern world and followed the examples set Sterling and Rashford

Farewell, then, Gordon Taylor. Who knows, maybe this time it really will be adieu. The news that Taylor will be leaving his post imminently, a mere 39 years into his elevation to the role of Professional Footballers’ Association chief executive, will be met with caution by long-term Taylor watchers.

Like a zombified hand, thrust back up through the cemetery soil, Taylor’s most remarkable quality in recent years has been his astonishing indestructibility. This is a union boss capable of surviving not just successive rounds of bad publicity, gaffes and campaigning opposition, but his own previous departure notice in 2018.

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