Gerry Taylor

Career Taylor was born in Hull, and began his football career at Wath Wanderers, the Yorkshire-based nursery club of Wolverhampton Wanderers, before heading south to join them. and was part of the squad that won the United Soccer Association league that summer under the Los Angeles Wolves guise.

The defender was often reserve to players such as Joe Wilson, Bobby Thomson, Bernard Shaw and Derek Parkin in the Wolves defence over his career, but played in both legs of the 1972 UEFA Cup Final. With fewer opportunities in his latter years with the club, he spent time on loan at Swindon Town in 1975.

After 192 appearances in total for Wolves, he retired from the professional game in 1976. He spent 26 years in the police force, and then worked at the RAF Museum in Cosford.