Former England manager Graham Taylor yesterday dismissed claims that two Football Association members tried to cap the number of black players in the national team during his time in charge.
Taylor insisted he would never have stood for such a demand, after a new book claimed he had privately revealed the approach in conversation with an anti-racism campaigner.
The claim that the FA members approached Taylor is made in the new book Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers, written by Emy Onuora, the brother of former Huddersfield, Swindon and Gillingham striker Iffy Onuora.
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