- Paul Taylor (referee)
infobox football official
name = Paul Taylor
fullname = Paul Taylor
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1959|06|20
cityofbirth = Enfield,Middlesex
countryofbirth =England
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
otheroccupation =
years = ? - ? ? - ? ? -19901986-19901990-1993
1995-20002000-20012001-
league = Herts. County LeagueIsthmian League Panel League Comps.Football LeagueFootball League
Football LeaguePremier League Football League
role = RefereeRefereeRefereeAsst. refereeReferee
RefereeRefereeReferee
internationalyears = 2000-20042003-2004
confederation =UEFA listedFIFA listed
internationalrole = RefereeRefereePaul Taylor (born Enfield,
Middlesex ,June 20 1959 ) is an English football referee, who previously took charge ofPremier League matches for just one season, and now officiates inthe Football League . He has also officiated forUEFA andFIFA in the past. He subsequently re-located toHertfordshire .Career
He first began refereeing in 1977 and progressed via the Hertfordshire County League, the
Isthmian League and the Panel League Competitions.He was appointed as a Football League
assistant referee in 1986 and promoted to referee in 1990. At this point he was aged only thirty and the youngest member on the List. As a newly rqualified referee the majority of his appointments over the next three seasons were usually in the lower divisions.In 1993 he lost his place; under previous circumstances that would have been the end of his Football League career. Until 1993, demoted referees were not given another chance to get back onto the List. A change of policy, however, allowed him to revert to assistant status while refereeing in the
Football Conference . In 1995 he successfully regained his refereeing place. This feat has since been matched byBrian Coddington , Fred Graham and Gary Lewis.fact|date=August 2007Taylor has had far greater success in his second spell on the List. Indeed he gained further promotion to the
FA Premier League for the season 2000-01. Since that time he has reverted to the Football League where he continues to be one of its leading officials.Taylor has refereed the Hertfordshire Senior County Cup Final, the
FA Sunday Cup Final and several International matches at both Youth and semi-professional level. He has also officiated in theFootball League Play-Offs on six occasions including theLeague Two Final at theMillennium Stadium ,Cardiff , in 2006. [ [http://www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=485948 League Two] Play-off Final, 2006:soccerbase .com website.]Other notable appointments include refereeing Cheltenham Town’s first game in the Football League [ [http://www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=264494 Cheltenham's] first ever League match: soccerbase.com website.] and Southampton's last match at The Dell versus Arsenal. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/1338713.stm Last ever match] played at The Dell, Southampton v. Arsenal: report from
BBC.co.uk website.]His overseas appointments include the 2000-01 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round fixture between Dynamo Kiev and
Red Star Belgrade . Taylor refereed his first seniorFIFA International between Nigeria and Venezuela in August 2003. In 2004 he wasfourth official at theFA Trophy Final. [ [http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/RefereeProfilesDetail/0,,10794~628215,00.html Profile] :the Football League Official website.] In the same year, he retired from international refereeing due to age restrictions. In 2005 he became a County Accredited Referees Instructor and in 2006 qualified as a National Licensed Instructor.The 2007-08 season was due to be his final one as a League referee before retirement, however after appealing the decision to remove him from the National List of referees because of age, he has been included for the 2008-2009 season. [ http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/31/3/0,,12306~131889,00.pdf National List of Referees 2008-2009] ] He refereed the
Ipswich vPreston match on the opening day of the 2008-2009 Championship season. [ [http://www.soccerbase.com/refs2.sd?refid=178&seasonid=138soccerbase .com website] ]Controversy
Taylor was involved in two unusual controversial incidents during the 2000-01 season.
On August 19 2000 he was the fourth official for the Sunderland v Arsenal game. He alleged that Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger had pushed him in the tunnel after the match. Wenger was found guilty and initially given a 12 match touchline ban. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20001011/ai_n14350945] . This was later reduced on appeal in February 2001.] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2001/feb/03/newsstory.sport4]
On October 14 2000 it was alleged that he made insulting and personal remarks to Notts County player Sean Farrell during the game against Wigan Athletic. The case against Taylor was dismissed at a disciplinary hearing in February 2001. [ [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/sport.html?in_article_id=54437&in_page_id=1771] Referee pays for tiff with Wenger.]
References
Print
*Football League Handbooks, 1986-89
*Rothmans / Sky Sports Football Yearbooks, 1990-2006Internet
External links
* [http://www.soccerbase.com/refs2.sd?refid=178 Paul Taylor Referee Statistics] at
soccerbase .com
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