E106 - Anthony Taylor: Thinking correctly under pressure
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Anthony Taylor is a current professional football referee. He has been a member of the Select Group of referees since the 2010/11 season, who officiate primarily in the Premier League.
Anthony has been chosen to referee the FA Cup Final, League Cup Final, Play-Off Final and the UEFA Nations League Final. But before football, Anthony's first career was as a prison officer at a category A jail.
On 12 June 2021, Anthony was the referee for the EURO 2020 group stage match between Finland and Denmark when Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch and required emergency treatment before being transferred to a local hospital and stabilised.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome along to the High Performance Podcast. |
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| 0:19.0 | This podcast turns the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. |
| 0:25.0 | So today I allow the greatest leaders, thinkers, sport stars, entrepreneurs and entertainers |
| 0:30.0 | to be your teachers. |
| 0:32.0 | Today this is what's in store. |
| 0:36.0 | How do you prepare for standing in front of a TV audience of millions or billions in the split second to say, |
| 0:47.0 | actually, I've looked at again, I'm wrong. |
| 0:50.0 | People expect officials to be perfect 100% all the time. |
| 0:55.0 | Well, you're not living in the real world. |
| 0:58.0 | And when we get to the point where technology is introduced and those decisions were being made then |
| 1:03.0 | we've flipped like completely opposite way going, this is now a disaster for the game. |
| 1:08.0 | But 12 months previously everybody was crying out for it. |
| 1:11.0 | So people still, while still in title to opinions, we still need that balance of, you know, |
| 1:18.0 | you can't ask for one thing and then cry foul when it's brought in and people don't like it. |
| 1:25.0 | Yes, mistakes are made and we're far from perfect. |
| 1:30.0 | But there's many other facets that contribute to a result of a football match. |
| 1:36.0 | It's a really interesting hour in the company of myself, Damien and Anthony Taylor. |
| 1:41.0 | When expecting perfection from anyone, you know you really do have to be able to deliver perfection yourself. |
| 1:47.0 | And I'm guilty of this at times in my other role as a football presenter. |
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