Daniel Taylor

Senior Football Writer at The Athletic

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Articles

Remembering Tom Youngs, an extraordinary ordinary footballer

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor

If there is such a thing as a typical footballer, he was never it. "Tom Youngs has got A-levels," the Cambridge United fans used to chant about their rookie striker who had chosen to follow his football dreams rather than study law at Birmingham University. In another sense, Youngs was very much your average footballer, navigating his way through the puddles and potholes of England's lower divisions and reluctantly having to accept he was never going to make it to the Premier League.
Why 'Goldenballs' is closer than ever to the knighthood he craves

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor

When you have David Beckham's wealth, celebrity status and a social circle made up of Hollywood A-listers, why limit yourself to just one birthday bash? Beckham's celebrations for his 50th - a series of events on both sides of the Atlantic - kicked off in March with a party at Cipriani, an Italian restaurant in Miami that is so exclusive they do not share the menu (or prices) online.
'We're fighting for fan culture'

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor

I am an FC fanI am MancunianI know what I want and I know how to get itI wanna destroy ... Glazer and Sky(To the tune of Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK)Through the double doors, then up the first flight of stairs, there is a framed shirt on the wall inside FC United of Manchester's entrance that says a lot about the attitudes they encountered in their early days.
Arne Slot, Liverpool and a 'remarkable'

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor

If you want to gauge the scale of Arne Slot's achievement, perhaps the most relevant detail is that he is about to join the small and exclusive band of managers who have won the league title in their first full season in English football. Only four have done it in the Premier League era, and three of them were at Chelsea when Roman Abramovich owned the club. Jose Mourinho was one in the 2004-05 season.
Hospital cleared of blame for former player's death

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor

The hospital that treated Kevin Campbell during his final months has been absolved of any blame in relation to his death despite acknowledging a "missed opportunity" to diagnose his condition earlier. Campbell - winner of a league championship, FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup during his early years at Arsenal - died from multi-organ failure on June 15 last year, aged 54, after being admitted to Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) for the second time that year.
Liverpool 2 West Ham 1

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor |Conor O'Neill

Virgil van Dijk kissed the Liverpool badge in celebration after heading home a late winner against West Ham United to push his side a step closer to Premier League glory. Fresh from ending his contract saga and signing a new two-year deal in midweek, Mohamed Salah produced a sumptuous outside-of-the-boot pass to tee up Luis Diaz for the game's opening goal early on but Andy Robertson's 86th-minute own goal looked to have spoiled the party at Anfield.
The bizarre story of a football prodigy, a stolen Ming vase and a Japanese extradition row

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor

In happier times, Kaine Wright liked to think he had the world at his feet. Neymar had picked him out as the outstanding player for England's five-a-side team in an international tournament organised by the Brazilian superstar. Wright had been in the academy at Premier League club West Ham United. Others wanted to look at the young Londoner, too. And when everything got a bit complicated in England, there were invitations from Portuguese clubs and a brief arrangement in Florida with Orlando City.
The Liam Delap transfer auction

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor

Roll up, roll up, for what is shaping up to be one of the bigger auctions in modern years for the Premier League. Exactly how big depends on how many of Liam Delap's admirers are willing to turn their interest in the Ipswich Town striker into something with greater substance. But The Athletic's information is that more than half of the Premier League's clubs are monitoring his availability with a view to capitalising on Ipswich's near-guaranteed relegation to the Championship.
Inside Scandinavia’s VAR Revolt -- Featuring Walkouts, Silences and Fishcakes

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Daniel Taylor

Kristian, a bearded Valerenga fan, stood defiantly outside Intility Arena in Oslo, Norway. “We won’t give up,” he said. “We want to be the first country to remove this disease. Then other countries will realize VAR can be defeated.”It was the first weekend of Norway’s soccer season, and inside the stadium of Oslo’s biggest club, the stand where Valerenga’s most boisterous supporters congregate was completely empty as the game kicked off.
'It was a brilliant failure'

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Daniel Taylor

It was, to quote one Dutch headline, 'een briljante mislukking'. Translation: a brilliant failure. Or, to put it another way, Arne Slot has had better ideas during his 30-year career as a professional footballer and now a manager, which has brought him to the cusp of this season's Premier League title with Liverpool.