Peter Taylor feels fans should show more respect for managers and give them less grief.

Taylor has been on rocky ground with City’s current slump and was barracked by some sections of the Valley Parade crowd after the Lincoln loss.

He faces another critical home game against his former club Wycombe this afternoon.

But the hot-seat veteran admits the manager’s job has been made much harder with the rise of social networks and phone-ins to analyse everything.

Taylor said: “There’s no doubt about that. Everybody knows better than you. If you win, you’re okay, but if you lose, you don’t know what you’re doing.

“It’s very hard to take, especially for someone my age of 58. I’ve worked really hard to be a decent coach and a decent manager. I also worked really hard to be a decent player.

“Then when you get certain people telling you to go home because you don’t know what you’re doing, on the strength of having five promotions, I find that quite personal. I think that’s wrong.”

Taylor believes the football blame culture has also had an impact in City’s demise from the Premier League to the bottom level.

“In Bradford City’s case, in the last ten years I don’t think the club’s finished higher than ninth in any division that they’ve been in,” he said.

“I would say to people that you aren’t helping the situation by all of a sudden putting managers, directors and players under pressure. Then there’s chopping and changing and everything else, which is not healthy for anybody.

“I listen to football phone-ins on the radio quite a bit and you get people there saying things like (Carlo) Ancelotti is a bad manager. There you go.

“I’m not saying that changes (of manager) should never happen – but have a look at somebody’s success rate.

“It’s obvious that looking at teams like Man United and other top clubs out there that less changes I’m sure would encourage more results.”

With only one point from the last six games, City have been plunged into an unexpected battle to stay up. Taylor, who will field new signings Scott Dobie and Kevin Ellison today, knows that flak comes with the territory.

“It’s not something I enjoy but I accept it because the results and the performances of the team have not been good enough,” he said.

“I just wish the season would start now. The team against Wycombe will be a very decent one, with a lot more experience and lot more league games under their belts.

“It will be much harder to play against. It’s just a shame we’ve had to go 29 games now to get it.”