Matthew Taylor (footballer)

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For the Newport County player, see Matt Taylor (footballer).

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For the Bristol Rovers player, see Matt Taylor (footballer, born 1990).

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For other people named Matthew Taylor, see Matthew Taylor (disambiguation).

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Matt Taylor
Matty Taylor playing for West Ham.jpg
Taylor in 2012
Personal information
Full name Matthew Simon Taylor[1]
Date of birth (1981-11-27) 27 November 1981 (age 43)[1]
Place of birth Oxford, England
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Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Burnley
Number 15
Youth career
0000–1999 Luton Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2002 Luton Town 129 (16)
2002–2008 Portsmouth 179 (23)
2008–2011 Bolton Wanderers 123 (23)
2011–2014 West Ham United 76 (2)
2014– Burnley 30 (4)
International career‡
2002–2003 England U21 3 (0)
2007 England B 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:18, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:00, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Matthew Simon Taylor (born 27 November 1981) is an English footballer who plays for Burnley. He has previously played for Luton Town, Portsmouth, Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United.

Club career

Luton Town

He began his career at Luton Town, making his debut as a 17-year-old at the beginning of the 1999–2000 season. He soon made the left wing-back slot his own and won the Young Player of the Year award in his first ever season as a professional.[citation needed] His success at Luton came after an initial trial at his local side, Oxford United.

Portsmouth

His displays led to interest from Premier League clubs, but he instead decided, in July 2002, to sign for First Division side Portsmouth for £750,000.[3] The fee was set averting the need for a tribunal, causing Luton manager Joe Kinnear to lament: "at least Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask".[4]

Usually playing as a left wing-back in a 3–5–2 formation, his speedy breaks down the left flank in support of the attack were a feature of Portsmouth's play as they won the First Division title in May 2003. As well as being a regular in the team during the season, he also scored seven goals in the League.

An injury picked up in the later stages of the previous season meant that Taylor was unavailable for the start of Portsmouth's first Premiership season. After returning to fitness, Taylor struggled to win his place in the side back due to the side's good early season form and Harry Redknapp's switch to the 4–4–2 formation. Taylor eventually won a place in the Pompey team at left back, where he was a regular in the second half of the 2003–04 season and appeared to be regaining form. Despite failing to score a league goal in his Premiership debut season, Taylor did hit the equaliser in an FA Cup tie at Anfield on 15 February 2004, when he ran the length of the pitch to celebrate with the supporters after a forceful right-footed finish at the Kop End.[citation needed]

Taylor's first Premiership goal came against Middlesbrough on 1 February 2005.[5] The summer signing of David Unsworth from Everton meant Taylor only became a regular in the side in the second half of the season.

New manager Alain Perrin utilised Taylor as a left midfielder during the 2005–06 season. On 29 October 2005, he scored from 40 yards at Sunderland's Stadium of Light, winning the BBC Goal of the Month.[6] Spotting the goalkeeper Kelvin Davis off his line, Taylor hit a dipping left-footed half-volley over Davis' head and into the back of the net. Portsmouth had been trailing Sunderland 1–0 in the crucial "six pointer" but Taylor inspired a second half comeback with two goals and two assists in a 4–1 victory.[7] When Harry Redknapp returned, Taylor initially retained his attacking role but the arrival of Andrés D'Alessandro on loan and Redknapp's disapproval of Perrin's left-back, Grégory Vignal, meant that Taylor returned to full-back for the latter stages of the season. 2005–06 could be considered Taylor's breakthrough season as a Premiership footballer. In all he played 34 league games, scoring six goals. Two of these were crucial penalties; one in the last minute against Sunderland to secure a 2–1 win, and another in an away game at Wigan Athletic on 29 April 2006 to clinch another 2–1 win and survival from relegation.

His good form for Portsmouth attracted interest from Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham, but he signed a long term contract with Portsmouth in July 2006.[8] In the 2006–07 season, Taylor was a regular in the Portsmouth side on the left of midfield. Despite the team's good form, it took until early December for him to score his first league goal, in a game against Aston Villa.[9][10] He then added a second from the penalty spot in the same match before going on to score spectacular volleys in the next two games against Everton and Arsenal.[11][12]

His first-half goal against Manchester United at Fratton Park in April 2007 sent Portsmouth on their way to a 2–1 victory over the Premier League champions. His final goal for Portsmouth was a penalty kick in August 2007, in a 3–1 win over Bolton Wanderers, the club he moved to five months later.[citation needed]

Bolton Wanderers

Taylor training with West Ham United in 2012

After losing his place in the Portsmouth team to Niko Kranjčar in the first half of the 2007–08 season, Taylor moved to Bolton Wanderers on Thursday 17 January 2008 for an undisclosed fee, after rejecting an offer from Sunderland.[13] On 29 March 2008 Taylor scored his first goals for Bolton with a brace in the 3–2 home defeat to Arsenal. On 11 May 2008 Taylor scored his first away goal for Bolton with a last minute equaliser, gaining Bolton a 1–1 draw against Chelsea on the last day of the 2007–08 Premier League season. In July 2008, having previously worn number 32, Taylor was given the number 7 shirt previously worn by Stelios Giannakopoulos. Taylor scored the 50th goal of his career in a 3–1 win at West Ham United on 5 October 2008[14] and reached double figures in the league for the first time when scoring against Chelsea on 11 April 2009.[2] In July 2009 he signed a new long term contract at Bolton Wanderers. In the 2009–10 season, after the Blackburn Rovers game blood tests showed that Taylor had developed glandular fever.[15]

West Ham United

On 23 July 2011, Taylor signed for West Ham United for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract.[16] He made his competitive debut on 7 August 2011 in 1–0 home defeat to Cardiff City[17] and scored his first goal in West Ham's 4-3 win over his former club, Portsmouth, on 10 September.[18]

Burnley

On 4 July 2014, newly promoted Premier League club Burnley confirmed that they had signed Taylor from West Ham United on a two-year deal, on a free transfer.[19] Taylor played in Burnley's first three games of the 2014-15 season but sustained an Achilles' heel injury for which he underwent surgery in October 2014.[20] Taylor returned to the first team on 11 April 2015, coming on as a late substitute in a 0-1 home defeat to Arsenal.[21] In his third game back he missed a penalty kick which would have put Burnley 1-0 up in an important game against Leicester City to avoid relegation from the Premier League. Leicester won the game 1-0 scoring 59 seconds after Taylor had missed his penalty.[22]

Career statistics

As of match played 2 January 2015.
Club statistics
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Luton Town 1999–2000[23] Second Division 41 4 5 1 1 0 — 0 0 47 5
2000–01[24] Second Division 45 1 4 0 4 0 — 1[lower-alpha 1] 0 54 1
2001–02[25] Third Division 43 11 1 0 1 0 — 0 0 45 11
Total 129 16 10 1 6 0 — 1 0 146 17
Portsmouth 2002–03[26] First Division 35 7 1 0 2 0 — — 38 7
2003–04[27] Premier League 30 0 5 3 3 1 — — 38 4
2004–05[28] Premier League 32 1 1 0 4 0 — — 37 1
2005–06[29] Premier League 34 6 2 0 1 1 — — 37 7
2006–07[30] Premier League 35 8 2 0 2 1 — — 39 9
2007–08[31] Premier League 13 1 0 0 2 0 — — 15 1
Total 179 23 11 3 14 3 — — 204 29
Bolton Wanderers 2007–08[31] Premier League 16 3 0 0 0 0 3[lower-alpha 2] 0 — 19 3
2008–09[32] Premier League 34 10 1 0 0 0 — — 35 10
2009–10[33] Premier League 37 8 3 0 3 0 — — 43 8
2010–11[34] Premier League 36 2 4 0 2 0 — — 42 2
Total 123 23 8 0 5 0 3 0 — 139 23
West Ham United 2011–12[35] Championship 28 1 0 0 1 0 — 3[lower-alpha 3] 0 32 1
2012–13[36] Premier League 28 1 2 0 2 0 — — 32 1
2013–14[37] Premier League 20 0 0 0 6 1 — — 26 1
Total 76 2 2 0 9 1 — 3 0 90 3
Burnley 2014–15[38] Premier League 10 0 0 0 1 0 — — 11 0
2015–16[39] Championship 20 4 0 0 1 0 — — 21 4
Total 30 4 0 0 2 0 — 0 0 32 4
Career total 537 68 31 4 36 4 3 0 4 0 611 76

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Honours

Club

Portsmouth
West Ham United

References

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