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Former England boss Taylor: I was sacked
1:18pm Sunday 11th October 2009
PETER Taylor has told Wycombe Wanderers fans he didn’t walk out on the club and says they sacked him.
The club issued a statement on Friday claiming the one-time England manager had left by mutual consent – but Taylor, who led the Blues to their first promotion in 15 years last term, says he was fired.
He said: “It wasn’t mutual consent and I want the truth to come out. I was up for the challenge. I don’t want any supporter to think I walked out on the team just before an important match and left the youth team manager to take the team.
“I have got no doubt that I could have turned it around. I’m staggered and what has happened hurts.
“I hold my hands up and agree that six points from 11 matches isn’t good enough but we were turning it round and I know that if I had been given time we would have got out of trouble.”
Taylor – who along with Crystal Palace’s Neil Warnock holds the record for the most promotions in the English game with five each - says he never saw the axe coming and is mystified by the timing.
He said: “On Thursday morning I did an interview with the Bucks Free Press saying how much I was up for the challenge and then at 3pm that day Steve Hayes (owner) rang me saying that the board had decided to make a change.”
They reacted after two successive 1-0 home defeats against lowly rivals Tranmere and Leyton Orient had kept the Blues pinned in League One’s bottom two.
Blues lost both matches because they didn’t convert any of the many chances they created.
But Taylor says he was about to put that right.
He had agreed a deal to bring in a new striker on loan tomorrow.
He said: “My biggest frustration in all this is that I had agreed with a Championship club to bring in a new striker on Monday and I have no doubt that the boy would have scored goals for us.
“I had been patient, I took my time, I gave our strikers the chance and I deliberately waited but I have been punished for taking my time.
“I was £100,000 under my budget and I was about to spend this on his wages but now I won’t get that chance.
“I’m really surprised because after the Leyton Orient and Tranmere games Steve (Hayes) had said how we were not far away.
"I don’t want to fall out with people but I think they have made a wrong decision.”
Taylor believes Wanderers already have his successor lined up, given that the club also asked his assistant Junior Lewis to leave.
And former Tottenham winger Taylor says he was surprised that the new man wasn’t in place for yesterday’s 3-2 defeat at Gillingham.
Taylor said: “It hurt that I wasn’t in charge yesterday and it hurt having to look at Sky to see how the team were doing.
“But I will bounce back. I’m not knackered or finished and I will come back somewhere and try and get another promotion.”
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J B Blackett, High Wycombe says...
2:21pm Sun 11 Oct 09
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The team needs money spent on it.
johnymac, wycombe says...
2:41pm Sun 11 Oct 09
wycombe got a new owner and he made the right choice
this team is good enough to stay up and he played terrible negative tactics THEN DENIED HE DID SO
the man was a liabilty
but thanks taylor for saying you got sacked i have more faith in the board now than ever before
true blue, Reading says...
3:12pm Sun 11 Oct 09
J B Blackett, High Wycombe says...
3:52pm Sun 11 Oct 09
true blue wrote:Am with you, true blue.
Johnmac you seem to have more faith in Hayes than most supporters. This all started when he took control and Taylor was nat able to get the players he wanted because he had not been given a budget until it was to late. Whoever gets the job they will have to contend doing a difficuly job eith Hayes in the background. Good kuck to whoever gets it they will need it !!!
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I think time will prove who is right , rather than unjustifiably just saying we are talking 'crap'.
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The wrong sort of people are in charge at the club now, IMHO.
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But like you I wish the team and ALL supporters the best of luck.
slieber, Florida says...
7:44pm Sun 11 Oct 09
johnymac, wycombe says...
9:43pm Sun 11 Oct 09
weve won 1 game in 11 and are 2nd bottom
how do you call that good?????
and as for hayes no i didnt have faith
but look at this fact out of the 3 players taylor wanted,2 have been injured for all but 2 games this season.
and the 3rd has been poor so you really think they would make a differance
and you think out of those players it would have changed from a poor 451 formation that was pathetic
taylor got a team promoted last season that should have walked the league but he JUST got them up
his negative tactics for the last year have bored fans to the point of we were all waiting for this to happen
as for a hard job i dont think it is that hard this team on paper can stay up easily he was gone 1 day and we scored 2 goals (take away another poor defense again but the point i was making is attacking) 2 GOALS!!!!!
taylors negative tactics WE WERE GOING DOWN he wasnt keeping us up at all so that we now HAVE A CHANCE to stay up
its a **** good decsion
chairboy2, says...
9:48pm Sun 11 Oct 09
J B Blackett, High Wycombe says...
10:17pm Sun 11 Oct 09
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I think there's a hidden agenda here and this man has 'friends' in high (local) places.
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The football itself is perhaps seen as a secondary issue when money and property are involved.
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Time will tell. Good luck to the WW team and all genuine long-time supporters. Perhaps Martin O'Neill might take pity on us and come back !
ferrellcat, the grass says...
12:02am Mon 12 Oct 09
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rambler241, High Wycombe says...
1:50pm Sun 11 Oct 09