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Interesting article on All Whites assistant coach Peter Taylor:

All Whites appointing Peter Taylor frightens me after his Bradford City failure

PINION: Peter Taylor's heralded appointment to the ranks of New Zealand football sent shivers down my spine.

Taylor joined Anthony Hudson's coaching team last month to assist with liaising with New Zealand's footballers in Europe, while hunting for future All Whites dotted around the football-mad continent.

The notion of Taylor recruiting potential All Whites is laughable when I reflect on his time in charge of my club, Bradford City.

Taylor's team he assembled was the worst I've ever seen. It left the club on the brink of relegation from League 2 (English football's fourth-tier) and nose-diving towards the abyss of non-league - and potentially extinction with the crippling costs of the club's 25,000 all-seater stadium.

Taylor signed Grant from Wycombe when he became Bradford boss.

He became boss in February 2010 and piggy-backed Gavin Grant along with him from his former club, Wycombe Wanderers.

Five months and 11 games without a goal later, Grant was jailed for life for the murder of Leon Labastide, who was shot dead in north-west London in 2004.

In the same month Grant was convicted, new striker Jake Speight, who signed on a two-year deal for £25,000 (NZ$44,230) in June 2010, was jailed for 12 weeks for assaulting his former partner.

Jake Speight was in jail a month after signing for £25,000 (NZ$44,230).

Speight, who failed to tell the club he had a court case, appealed and his punishment was suspended for 18 months and he had to do 100 hours of community work. He was released from prison that month and freed to return to training.

But Speight failed in City's faltering front line, with five goals in 31 appearances. Three of those were penalties.

Speight left in June 2011 after the club grimly secured its football league status, finishing 18th - five points above the trap door.

Bradford finished 18th and just five points clear of relegation.

Taylor was long gone by this point, after he and Bradford parted company by mutual consent in February 2011, just 12 months after he took charge - and a month after rejecting a lucrative offer to work as an assistant coach with Alan Pardew at Newcastle United, who then finished fifth in the Premier League the following season.

Whoops.

Some more of his failed signings at Bradford - like Lewis Hunt, Chib Chilaka, Jason Price and Robbie Threlfall (I could go on) - all saw their careers drastically plummet after joining Taylor in West Yorkshire, because they weren't up to scratch.

Lewis Hunt followed Taylor to Bradford from Wycombe and was another failure.

The old textbook long diagonal hoof from fullback to frontman featured week in, week out.

Fans were fuming and a chorus of boos echoed around Bradford's Valley Parade stadium as often as the ball was booted into the air.

Taylor was supposed to lead a promotion charge, but the football he deployed was negative and dire. His calamitous tenure ended in farce.

Taylor left Bradford after 12 months in charge, with the club fighting to avoid relegation.

After agreeing with the club's hierarchy to leave, Taylor took charge of one final home game against Stockport County.

The club decided to grant fans entry for just £1 (NZ$1.77) in a desperate bid to lift the toxic atmosphere before Taylor made his swift exit.

It worked, to an extent, as Bradford's faithful roared Taylor's hopeless team to victory over lowly nine-man Stockport thanks to Gareth Evans' 94th minute winner.

Taylor's career pointed to Bahrain, which is where he met All Whites coach Anthony Hudson.

Cue bedlam.

The relief of coming from 2-1 down to win 3-2 against a team bottom of the league playing with nine men was as good as it got with Taylor.

His departure was dignified and sincere. Taylor's always conducted himself well, ever since he handed David Beckham the captain's arm band for the first time in 2000 as England's caretaker boss.

For the record, the Three Lions lost 1-0 to Italy in Turin in Taylor's only match in charge.

But aside from coaching England's under-21s and winning promotions from the lower leagues - with Brighton, Gillingham, Hull City (twice) and Wycombe - Taylor hasn't delivered the goods in jobs he's interviewed so well for.

He managed Leicester City in the Premier League for a year before he was sacked in 2001, as well as Crystal Palace in the Championship and Stevenage in the formerly named Conference (English football's fifth-tier).

After Bradford, Taylor went international and became Bahrain's coach in July 2011, which is where he first met Hudson.

He was sacked in October 2012, though, and after failed stints with England's under-20s, Gillingham and Indian Super League club, Kerala Blasters, Taylor's landed a job with New Zealand football.

"It's obvious that Anthony's now got a group of players that are together, want to be there and are difficult opponents because of their recent results," Taylor said on joining the All Whites.

'Recent results' are 1-0 wins over the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia, before a 4-2 penalty shootout victory over Papua New Guinea after an insufferable 0-0 draw in the final of the OFC Nations Cup in Port Moresby.

They're no Mexico or USA, Peter.

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Interesting article on All Whites assistant coach Peter Taylor:

All Whites appointing Peter Taylor frightens me after his Bradford City failure

PINION: Peter Taylor's heralded appointment to the ranks of New Zealand football sent shivers down my spine.

Taylor joined Anthony Hudson's coaching team last month to assist with liaising with New Zealand's footballers in Europe, while hunting for future All Whites dotted around the football-mad continent.

The notion of Taylor recruiting potential All Whites is laughable when I reflect on his time in charge of my club, Bradford City.

Taylor's team he assembled was the worst I've ever seen. It left the club on the brink of relegation from League 2 (English football's fourth-tier) and nose-diving towards the abyss of non-league - and potentially extinction with the crippling costs of the club's 25,000 all-seater stadium.

Taylor signed Grant from Wycombe when he became Bradford boss.

He became boss in February 2010 and piggy-backed Gavin Grant along with him from his former club, Wycombe Wanderers.

Five months and 11 games without a goal later, Grant was jailed for life for the murder of Leon Labastide, who was shot dead in north-west London in 2004.

In the same month Grant was convicted, new striker Jake Speight, who signed on a two-year deal for £25,000 (NZ$44,230) in June 2010, was jailed for 12 weeks for assaulting his former partner.

Jake Speight was in jail a month after signing for £25,000 (NZ$44,230).

Speight, who failed to tell the club he had a court case, appealed and his punishment was suspended for 18 months and he had to do 100 hours of community work. He was released from prison that month and freed to return to training.

But Speight failed in City's faltering front line, with five goals in 31 appearances. Three of those were penalties.

Speight left in June 2011 after the club grimly secured its football league status, finishing 18th - five points above the trap door.

Bradford finished 18th and just five points clear of relegation.

Taylor was long gone by this point, after he and Bradford parted company by mutual consent in February 2011, just 12 months after he took charge - and a month after rejecting a lucrative offer to work as an assistant coach with Alan Pardew at Newcastle United, who then finished fifth in the Premier League the following season.

Whoops.

Some more of his failed signings at Bradford - like Lewis Hunt, Chib Chilaka, Jason Price and Robbie Threlfall (I could go on) - all saw their careers drastically plummet after joining Taylor in West Yorkshire, because they weren't up to scratch.

Lewis Hunt followed Taylor to Bradford from Wycombe and was another failure.

The old textbook long diagonal hoof from fullback to frontman featured week in, week out.

Fans were fuming and a chorus of boos echoed around Bradford's Valley Parade stadium as often as the ball was booted into the air.

Taylor was supposed to lead a promotion charge, but the football he deployed was negative and dire. His calamitous tenure ended in farce.

Taylor left Bradford after 12 months in charge, with the club fighting to avoid relegation.

After agreeing with the club's hierarchy to leave, Taylor took charge of one final home game against Stockport County.

The club decided to grant fans entry for just £1 (NZ$1.77) in a desperate bid to lift the toxic atmosphere before Taylor made his swift exit.

It worked, to an extent, as Bradford's faithful roared Taylor's hopeless team to victory over lowly nine-man Stockport thanks to Gareth Evans' 94th minute winner.

Taylor's career pointed to Bahrain, which is where he met All Whites coach Anthony Hudson.

Cue bedlam.

The relief of coming from 2-1 down to win 3-2 against a team bottom of the league playing with nine men was as good as it got with Taylor.

His departure was dignified and sincere. Taylor's always conducted himself well, ever since he handed David Beckham the captain's arm band for the first time in 2000 as England's caretaker boss.

For the record, the Three Lions lost 1-0 to Italy in Turin in Taylor's only match in charge.

But aside from coaching England's under-21s and winning promotions from the lower leagues - with Brighton, Gillingham, Hull City (twice) and Wycombe - Taylor hasn't delivered the goods in jobs he's interviewed so well for.

He managed Leicester City in the Premier League for a year before he was sacked in 2001, as well as Crystal Palace in the Championship and Stevenage in the formerly named Conference (English football's fifth-tier).

After Bradford, Taylor went international and became Bahrain's coach in July 2011, which is where he first met Hudson.

He was sacked in October 2012, though, and after failed stints with England's under-20s, Gillingham and Indian Super League club, Kerala Blasters, Taylor's landed a job with New Zealand football.

"It's obvious that Anthony's now got a group of players that are together, want to be there and are difficult opponents because of their recent results," Taylor said on joining the All Whites.

'Recent results' are 1-0 wins over the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia, before a 4-2 penalty shootout victory over Papua New Guinea after an insufferable 0-0 draw in the final of the OFC Nations Cup in Port Moresby.

They're no Mexico or USA, Peter.