Graham Taylor: No quota on black players

Former England manager Graham Taylor has insisted he would never have blocked black footballers’ path into the national team and denied that two Football Association members tried to cap numbers.

The claim that the FA members approached Taylor is made in a new book titled ’Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers’ by Emy Onuora, the brother of former Huddersfield, Swindon and Gillingham striker Iffy Onuora.

In the book, Onuora writes that former Birmingham striker Richie Moran, who became an anti-racism campaigner after facing abuse in his career, spoke to Taylor at an event held in the 1999-2000 season by Watford FC.