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Article: Football: Johnsen debt to Taylor's patience; The Norwegian defender's resilience has paid dividends for Aston Villa, writes Chief Football Writer Hyder Jawad.(Sport)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2002
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Ronny Johnsen and Graham Taylor have different reasons to remember when England lost 2-0 to Norway in Oslo in June 1993.
For Taylor, it was the first hint that he would not be leading England to the 1994 World Cup in the United States. For Johnsen, it was an opportunity to be present for one of Norway's finest results. Nine years on, the two have joined forces at Aston Villa but Johnsen has not forgotten the day his international team-mates put one nail into Taylor's international coffin.
'Yes, we were aware of the pressure on England at that time,' Johnsen ...