Sport 23-10-2000 Taylor Gets England Call-Up who: Leicester City manager Peter Taylor what: Made England caretaker for one match where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "The Football Association continued to falter in its attempts to solve England`s managerial crisis," says Vivek Chaudhary in The Guardian, "by announcing yesterday that the Leicester City manager, Peter Taylor, and Manchester United coach, Steve McLaren, will take charge of the team - but for one match only." "This is the best moment of my life," said Taylor yesterday. "I`m proud and thrilled to be manager of England, even if only for one game." "What a mess" says The Mirror, noting that just 16 months ago the FA sacked Taylor as England`s Under-21 coach. It`s "a move that smacks of desperation" says the paper, claiming that chief exec Adam Crozier is now off to Italy "to wave a five-year contract under the nose of Lazio`s Sven Goran Eriksson" in the hope of ending the crisis. But although Arsene Wenger, Sven Goran Eriksson and Roy Hodgson are the acknowledged front-runners for the position full-time, Steven Howard in The Sun suggests that 47 year-old Taylor "is being groomed as the long-term England boss... Not bad for a bloke who was managing Conference League Dover just four years ago." [... more]

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