fullname youthclubs years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals nationalteam position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
thomas taylor smithies united 1953 -- 1958 6 february 1958 munich , bavaria , west germany smithies united manchester united smithies , west riding of yorkshire , england 44 166 26 112 england centre-forward 19 1953 -- 1957 29 january 1932 tommy taylor
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tommy taylor

thomas `` tommy '' taylor -lrb- 29 january 1932 -- 6 february 1958 -rrb- was an english footballer , who was known for his aerial ability .
he was one of the eight manchester united players who lost their lives in the munich air disaster .
he was born in smithies , near barnsley , in january 1932 , one of six children born to charles and violet taylor .
he was a pupil at raley secondary modern school where he attended after failing his eleven-plus .
taylor began his career playing for a local coal mining team at the colliery where he worked .
at the age of just 16 , local scouts offered him the chance to play for barnsley , whom he joined in july 1949 .
he made his first team debut on 7 october 1950 , in a 3 -- 1 home win against grimsby town .
in his next match , on 4 november 1950 , taylor scored a hat-trick in a 7 -- 0 victory against queens park rangers .
in all he scored seven goals in twelve appearances in 1950 -- 51 .
while playing for barnsley , he carried out national service in the british army .
after scoring 26 goals in 44 games at barnsley , who had been unable to progress beyond the second division , taylor was transferred to defending first division champions manchester united in march 1953 for the unusual fee of # 29,999 .
matt busby did not want to burden taylor as being a '' # 30,000 player '' , so he took a # 1 note from his wallet and handed it to the lady who had been serving tea during the negotiations .
at the time , he was one of the most expensive players in british football and had also been subject of interest from clubs including sheffield wednesday , derby county and wolverhampton wanderers .
he got off to a great start , scoring twice on his debut .
by the end of the 1952 -- 53 season , taylor had scored seven goals in his first 11 games for united .
he eventually led the team to league titles in 1955 -- 56 and 1956 -- 57 and scored in the 1957 fa cup final , when united were denied the double as they lost 2 -- 1 to aston villa -lrb- winners of the competition for a then record seventh time -rrb- .
such was taylor 's worth that matt busby decided to reject an offer of # 65,000 for him from internazionale in 1957 .
had the deal gone through , then it would have broken the world transfer record .
at the time of his emergence , many saw taylor as the perfect eventual replacement for the ageing nat lofthouse in the england side .
in all , he played 19 times for england , scoring 16 goals .
his first cap came on 17 may 1953 and a week later he found the net for the first time at senior international level in a 2 -- 1 friendly win over chile .
he managed two hat-tricks for the england team , the first in a 5 -- 2 win over denmark on 5 december 1956 , the second in a 5 -- 1 win over republic of ireland on 8 may 1957 .
his last appearance for england came on 27 november 1957 against france , in which he scored twice in a 4 -- 0 win .
taylor died instantly in the munich air disaster , and at the time was engaged to his fiancée carol .
he is buried at monk bretton cemetery in his hometown barnsley .
on 8 july 2011 , a blue plaque was unveiled at 22 great stone road in stretford .
this was a boarding house in the 1950s and manchester united used it as lodgings for their single players .
taylor lived there with david pegg and -lrb- briefly -rrb- mark jones until these players were killed at munich , by which time jones had already married and left the house .
the plaque is sponsored by stretford high school -lrb- which is only 50 yards away -rrb- and came about as a result of a local history project undertaken by the pupils at the school .
the plaque was unveiled by dickie bird mbe , who was at school with taylor in barnsley .
