REFEREE

Jack Taylor

1930 - 2012

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John Keith Taylor (21 May 1930 – 27 July 2012) was an English football referee. Later described by the Football League as "perhaps the finest English referee of all time", Taylor was famous for officiating in the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final during which he awarded two penalties in the first 30 minutes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Taylor has received more than 43,630 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jack Taylor is the 11th most popular referee (up from 25th in 2019), the 2,692nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,775th in 2019) and the most popular British Referee.

Memorability Metrics

  • 44k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Jack Taylor ranks 11 out of 147. Before him are Sándor Puhl, Michel Vautrot, Markus Merk, Horacio Elizondo, Rudi Glöckner, and Nicolae Rainea. After him are Björn Kuipers, Howard Webb, Roberto Rosetti, Nicola Rizzoli, Said Belqola, and Gamal Al-Ghandour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jack Taylor ranks 303. Before him are Clive Revill, Hédi Baccouche, Ilya Glazunov, Vlatko Pavletić, Sonja Edström, and Edna O'Brien. After him are Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Helen Merrill, Anatoli Maslyonkin, Lothar Wolleh, Sándor Rozsnyói, and Edward Woodward. Among people deceased in 2012, Jack Taylor ranks 211. Before him are Marvin Hamlisch, Ann Rutherford, Dom Mintoff, Paavo Berglund, Mahmoud El-Gohary, and Levon Helm. After him are Richard Lynch, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Peter Carsten, Sergio Toppi, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, and John Hick.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Taylor ranks 2,692 out of 8,785. Before him are Biff Byford (1951), William Knox D'Arcy (1849), Venetia Burney (1918), Arthur Brown (1942), John Florio (1553), and Glen Matlock (1956). After him are Israel Zangwill (1864), Ron Atkinson (1939), Paul Davies (1946), Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871), Edward Colston (1636), and Eric Ambler (1909).

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Among REFEREES In United Kingdom

Among referees born in United Kingdom, Jack Taylor ranks 1. After him are Howard Webb (1971), Graham Poll (1963), Anthony Taylor (1978), Michael Oliver (1985), Martin Atkinson (1971), Hugh Dallas (1957), Michaela Tabb (1967), Mike Dean (1968), Mark Clattenburg (1975), Craig Thomson (1972), and Willie Collum (1979).

British born Referees

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