TOWN’S NEW goalkeeping coach Ben Taylor has come indirectly from the handling code of amateur rugby league after a hand injury curtailed that sporting career.
It was while playing on the wing and then later at hooker for Drighlington ARLFC that he took up studying for his goalkeeping coaching grades having also had a keen interest in football.
The 29-year-old now has his own business (Taylor Made Goalkeeping LTD) and he is also the head goalkeeper coach at Leeds Beckett University where he has spent the last two years. He also spent two seasons with Huddersfield Town Ladies on a semi-professional level.
Taylor is also an ambassador for a goalkeeper glove company by the trade name of Keepz GK.
Very much a bachelor right now, he is dedicating his time to work and football with ambitions to be in the professional game in one form or another down the line.
He will be working with Town’s new experienced keep Brett Souter and any cover manager Vill Powell brings in before the season kicks off on Saturday, August 14 with a home game against Gateshead club Dunston.
His contract also sees him coaching the goalkeepers with the youth and junior sides at the Yorkshire Payments Stadium.
