I recently attended a sportsmans dinner where Peter Taylor was the guest sepaker. He was mainly doing a Q & A and one of the questions posed to him was " what happened with you and Charlton?" His reply went like this - On the morning of the game where Curbs was saying goodbye to the fans at the Valley, Peter Taylor recieved a call from CAFC telling him Curbs is leaving and they would like to talk to him about the job. He then met with Charlton on the Monday and was offered the job, he was later then informed that he could not bring his own back room staff, Peter Taylor said fine does that mean I have to work with the staff already in place? (which he was about as he felt they deserved there chance). He was then told no we will appoint your back room staff for you!
Peter taylor said he needed to hink about that and then later recieved a call telling him the job was no longer being offered to him!
This is all from the horses mouth chap.
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might be an element of Taylor not being 100% honest there though, particularly in the being offered the job straight away bit.
Given the honest answers he gave on a variety of subjects at the sportsmans dinner I attended, I would be very surprised if he was stretching the truth.
Tavern did'nt you have Iain Dowie from the Palace :-)
The man wet his knickers at the thought of a Premier League job - ANY Premier League job. He was all over the press about it. I'm not surprised that he now wants to save face, hardly likely to say that he wasn't wanted now, is he?!
Probably for the same reason he said he thought he would never get the Palace job as Simon Jordan did'nt appear to rate him.
AFKA - He told some good stories on his time as spurs player and being dropped by Keith Birkenshaw, so he went and moaned to his captain Steve Perryman and told him that he could not believe that Birkenshaw had dropped him, to which perryman replied " I can as you have been F%$£ing useless for weeks! It was not a Palace dinner , and when asked about his relationship with Simon Jordan , he said it was very good and certainly Simon would have more reason to moan about him (given results at the time) than he would about Simon.
Also some made a very good point about when he took over at leicester after Martin o'neill and how he would never take a job following on from a legend at a club without his own backroom team.
Similiar to Dowie following Curbs really, he should have had his own people.
that's a very good point actually, and one that hasn't properly been raised. interesting.
Thanks!!!!
To be honest that confirms what I've always suspected about the whole replacing Curbs situation, namely that when we appointed Dowie, it wasn't because he was the right man for the job, it was that he was the only one that was prepared to have his backroom staff chosen for him.
I imagine following curbs would be quite similiar, having said that, Dowie was never the right man for Charlton, and I dont think mr Reed is either.
Will Richard Murray make another change??
I think there is an element of truth in this but taylor neglects to mention the probability, that he would have been forced to relinquish the U21 job, which he wasn't prepared to.
Also if this were completely true, how come he piped up in the media a few days later telling all he'd rejected the position at Charlton because he still had a job at Hull to complete? Which I beleive was a few weeks before rushing off down to the toilet in Croydon.
It would have been a tough act regardless, as I recall he did well initially taking Leicester albeit briefly to the top of the EPL before fading away and the second season was when he was sacked.