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Name: Gerry W Taylor
Born: 15th August 1947
Full back Gerry Taylor played
Junior football in Hull and joined Wolves as a apprentice in June 1963 and
turned professional in November 1964. His first of 192 appearances for
Wolves was in a goalless draw at Molineux to Ipswich Town on New Year's
Eve 1966. He played in another 17 games that season as the club finished
runners-up to Coventry City and won promotion from Division Two.
Over the next four seasons of Division one football he found himself in
and out of the first team playing reserve to the likes of Joe Wilson and
Bobby Thomson, and then to Derek Parkin and Bernard Shaw and it wasn't
until towards the end of the 1971/72 season that he established himself on
the side and held down a regular place.
A dedicated and loyal club man, Gerry helped Wolves win promotion from
Division Two in 1967, carry off the Texaco Cup in 1971 and reach the final
of the UEFA Cup twelve months later in which he played in both legs. Gerry
was reserve at Wembley for the 1974 League Cup Final v Man City.
He only scored one goal for Wolves, in a 2-1 win at Southampton in March
1972.
He was loaned out to Swindon in October 1975, then retired in 1976 and
joined the Staffordshire County Police force, playing for for the Cannock
Police football team. He later progressed to the rank of sergeant and was
based in Wombourne andKinver.
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