LONDON (Reuters) - Former Reading, Stoke City and Portsmouth forward Dave Kitson launched a bid to replace players' union chief Gordon Taylor on Thursday and said the body's response to the COVID-19 crisis was 'an absolute embarrassment'.
Taylor, 75, has been at the helm of the Professional Footballers' Association since 1981 but said in March last year he would step down after a review of the organisation's governance.
Kitson, 40, told Sky Sports News he had been gathering information from players, managers and officials at the PFA for more than a year. "The people that I speak to... are all in agreement, whether it's me or someone else, that the time is certainly overdue for a change at the PFA."
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