Phil Taylor (63) won the Darts World Championship 16 times. The legend retired six years ago.
Now he has new plans. Together with pop star Robbie Williams (49) he wants to buy his hometown club!
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Phil Taylor and Robbie Williams want to buy a football club
Taylor will not be seen at the Darts World Cup in London this year either. Since retiring six years ago, the 16-time world champion has avoided the big stages. He still plays on the World Seniors Darts Tour and occasionally appears at exhibitions, but high-profile appearances are rare. He once again accepted the invitation of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) to the World Cup draw on November 27th and flirted with the fact that he no longer knew around two thirds of the players.
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Taylor is currently focusing on other topics, spending a lot of time with his grandchildren and considering buying a football club. Specifically: FC Port Vale, currently fifteenth in the third-tier League One. “I can imagine that, but we’ll have to see what it all means and how much they want and stuff like that,” Taylor confirmed in an interview with the British betting company OLBG.
“The Power” has been a fan of the third division club from Stoke-on-Trent since he was a child; he grew up a few hundred meters away from the stadium. “My dad used to lift me over the turnstile because we didn’t have enough money to get in. Back then, it didn’t bother anyone if a few kids just jumped over it,” Taylor remembers.
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However, the idea of taking over his hometown club did not come from himself. Pop star Williams had expressed concrete purchase intentions, and now Taylor is considered a potential business partner. A prominent duo, similar to Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who bought AFC Wrexham for two million pounds in 2021 and led them back into professional football.
Taylor and Williams have known each other since the singer, 14 years his junior, was a small child. They grew up in the same neighborhood. “Peter, his father, is like my second father,” says Taylor.
The two have not yet discussed the purchase, and Taylor is not yet clear about their goals either. “We want to get the club into the Premier League,” he says, but then immediately rows back: “I don’t know, to be honest, I have no idea. I would probably call Barry Hearn and ask him for advice. Barry was my former manager and as he owned Leyton Orient he knows a lot more about running a football club than I do, so I would ask him for some advice,” said Taylor.
However, it is clear to him that he would not take over the chairmanship at Port Vale: “Since, unlike Robbie, I live in the area, that would be the only reason for me not to invest in Port Vale. If I then go to the games, I would be the one who has to take all the criticism.
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This article was created in the sports competence center of BILD, SPORT BILD and WELT and first appeared in WELT.
2023-12-21 10:52:51
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