Background
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.
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.
After proving himself in the reserve ranks, he progressed to making his first team debut on 31 December 1966 in a goalless draw with Ipswich Town in the Second Division. 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 Royal Air Force Museum in Cosford.
He remained in the team for the remainder of the 1966-1967 season as the club won promotion to the First Division, 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 Union of European Football Associations Cup Final.
