When Tony first got promoted to the Select Group of Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB), there were some murmurings about whether somebody from Greater Manchester should be able to referee games involving Manchester United and Manchester City - the mainstream media, some of whom knew Taylor well, gushed about his support for Altrincham FC and his expected neutrality with City and United.
Not so.
Taylor has been biased in favour of Man Utd and against City since his elevation to the elite group of referees - there have been unanimous red cards & penalties in favour of the Reds and against the Blues (5 penalties and a red card in favour of United and 5 penalties and 3 red cards against City).
This is the same model as that utilised by Peter Walton (now of BT Sport) and his obviously unintended bias for Red over Blue.