Peter Taylor (footballer Born 1953)
Peter John Taylor (born 3 January 1953 in Rochford, Essex) is an English football manager and former player and former head coach of the Bahrain national football team. He has been the manager of Dartford, Southend United, Dover Athletic, Gillingham, Leicester City, Brighton and Hove Albion, Hull City, Crystal Palace, Stevenage Borough, Wycombe Wanderers and Bradford City, leaving the last role in February 2011. He also had two spells as head coach of the England under-21 team and took charge of the England national team for one game.
During his time as a player with Crystal Palace during the 1970s, Taylor became one of the few players to have been selected for the senior England team when not playing in the top two flights of a domestic league.
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