David Taylor

Forfar Athletic were well represented this afternoon at the funeral in Glasgow of Forfar born former SFA and UEFA Chief Executive David Taylor
Chairman Alastair Donald was joined by his two predecessors in the post, along with manager Dick Campbell and twin brother Ian at the service at a packed Jordanhill Parish Church.

The service was attended by the great and the good of European and Scottish football alongside a host of family, friends and colleagues from near and far including UEFA President Michel Platini who had flown in direct from duties at the World Cup Finals in Brazil.

David’s son James delivered a wonderful eulogy detailing his father’s family, business and sporting life. On the football front he told those present that although his father listed around seven clubs throughout Europe as teams he supported and took an avid interest in, at the end of the day the ‘Loons’ were closest to his heart.

The church service and committal at Clydebank Crematorium were conducted by the Reverend Ian Manson a personal friend of David’s and the minister of the Church of Scotland in Geneva who also had a Forfar connection.

He spent over a year as an Assistant Minister some time back at the East and Old Parish Church in the ‘toonie’, residing a the time in Lily bank Crescent.