Bradford City boss Taylor flies into a rage

7:40am Thursday 9th September 2010

Exclusive By Simon Parker

Daley missed City’s game with Port Vale last week to appear in two international friendlies. But he saw only 50 minutes of action after coming off the bench twice.

Taylor was fuming at losing a player from his squad in exchange for such little game-time and plans to let the Jamaican Football Federa-tion know exactly how he feels.

He is unlikely to allow Daley to disappear again for Jamaica’s next game against Trinidad on October 10.

Taylor said: “It’s absolutely shocking. Omar misses a league match to do an awful lot of travelling to get over there and then hardly plays.

“I’m extremely disappointed and I shall be writing to the Jamaican authorities with my thoughts. From now on, we won’t be co-operating with them.”

The winger was due back for training at Apperley Bridge today after a flight back from Florida, where he played the last quarter of a 2-1 defeat to Peru in the early hours of yesterday morning. He was also used as a second-half sub in the 1-0 win over Costa Rica in Kingston on Sunday.

Taylor said: “We wanted to play ball with them. We thought that on the back of missing a league match he would go out there and get two games to build up his fitness.

“Now he’ll come back to us absolutely shattered. His head is going to be all over the place from all the flying.”

Clubs are obliged to let players join up with their national sides – five days before a qualifier and two days early for a friendly. But City can argue that it was a wasted trip for someone still finding his feet after a long-term injury.

Daley, who won his 58th cap in Fort Lauderdale, had not played for Jamaica since damaging both his lateral and cruciate knee ligaments in February last year – the injury which kept him out for ten months.

He cleared it with Taylor last week after being selected. The City chief was willing to let him go because both felt Daley would benefit from two competitive international outings in the space of three days.

Taylor said: “It was a little bit frustrating to lose Omar because he’s been out a long time but I told him it would be good to get himself a couple of games under his belt for his fitness.