Former England manager Graham Taylor left £542k in his will

FORMER England manager Graham Taylor left £542,449 in his will, probate records reveal.

The father of two, who died aged 72 in January, left the bulk of his estate to his wife Rita.

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Graham Taylor left £542,449 in his will, the bulk to his wife Rita[/caption]

Taylor, whose clubs included Aston Villa, also left £5,000 each to his three grandchildren.

His will was drawn up seven months before he died of a suspected heart attack in his sleep at home in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire.

Taylor was a defender at Grimsby before becoming Lincoln City manager, aged 28, in 1972.

He took Watford from the old Division Four to runners-up in the top-flight in 1983. He became England manager in 1990 but famously failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup.

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Taylor managed Lincoln City, Watford, Wolves, Aston Villa and England during his career[/caption]

Taylor returned to club management with a brief stint at Wolves before joining Watford and guiding them back into English football’s top flight.

He then managed Villa again in 2002 but retired a year later, becoming a pundit for BBC Sport.

His association with Watford continued when he became the club’s chairman from 2009 to 2012 and had a stand at Vicarage Road named after him in 2014.