PFA CHIEF Gordon Taylor is delighted to see the tide turn at his boyhood club Bolton Wanderers.

The former Whites winger – who supported from the terraces at Burnden Park with his grandfather as a youngster – is delighted to see the team thriving at the right end of League One after a torrid year.

Taylor and the PFA had to intervene on the players’ behalf at the height of Wanderers’ financial crisis and broker a deferment of wages.

But such problems now appear to have been put in the past and Taylor is pleased to see the start the Whites have made under Phil Parkinson - a manager he believes his old club are lucky to have tempted from Bradford City in the summer.

“I think they have a good manager and it is really good to see them at the right end of the league, I will be wishing them well and hoping they bounce back,” he told The Bolton News.

“Phil has been in the game a long time and he has a good record, he is a good solid lad who is highly respected, his cup successes with Bradford were nationally recognised and I think it is a real coup for Bolton to get him.

“Every club should be aiming for automatic promotion and if they can do that it will be excellent and give the whole place a lift because it’s not been the best of times recently.”

Taylor made close to 300 appearances for Bolton during his playing days between 1962 and 1970 and reckons the town deserves a successful football club.

“There is a real belief in football here in Bolton and a hard-core support for the club and its history and its tradition and hopefully its future.

“I would be absolutely delighted to see that happen this season,” he said.