Premiership: Leicester were wrong to sack me, says Taylor

Peter Taylor is determined to prove Leicester wrong for sacking him, after just 15 months as their manager.

Taylor said he was "frustrated rather than angry", when told of his fate by Leicester chairman John Elsom late last night.

The former England caretaker coach believes a crippling injury list is the main reason Leicester are bottom of the Premiership table.

He insists he had the full support of the players right to the bitter end and was confident he could have turned City's fortunes around, given sufficient time and a return to fitness of key players.

Taylor said: "My argument is that if I could have put out my best team for even half of the games then I could have lived with it the sacking.

"But to have had the injuries we have had - the worst I have known in all my time in football - has made it very difficult, and I even signed off with two more at Charlton on Saturday!

"It hasn't come as that much of a surprise. But I am that determined that I will prove them - the people who have sacked me - wrong. I intend to do that. I really think they have made the wrong decision.

"I'm not angry. I'm frustrated. I know I would have got it right. If everyone was fit then this squad is good enough to be at least half-way up the Premiership - but young players had to come in quicker than I intended."

Taylor has come under criticism from some supporters over the quality of his signings, following the departure of Emile Heskey to Liverpool and then Neil Lennon to Celtic. But he insisted: "No manager alive gets it 100% right with signings, but I think that most of the players I have signed have been successful."

Taylor also dismissed as "not true" recent reports that he has been offered a coaching opportunity by his former England boss Glenn Hoddle with Tottenham.