1971 Tagg, Julian
Birthplace
Exeter, Devon 1956
Occupation
Winger
Biographical Text
Julian Tagg played for Exeter City in the Western League as a teenager. Becoming a college lecturer and youth coach he helped develop the academy set-up before becoming the club's chief executive, chairman and president in the era of supporter ownership.
Still at Ladysmith School, the 15-year-old Julian played his first match for City's reserves at Chard Town in the Western League. He was on the left wing with Cec Smyth at left-back and former Grecian Dick Plumb playing in attack for Chard. One of the first students to attend the newly-constitued Exeter College in the early 1970s, he was selected for the Devon Schools under-18 side in 1973/74 whilst continuing to occasionally play for City's various sides for another season or two.
Studying to become a teacher, he attended St Luke's College shortly before it was subsumed into Exeter University and continued to appear in local football with Leo Blanca, Ottery St Mary and Exmouth Town before a brief return to the ranks of Exeter City 'A' in 1983 that ended in injury after ten minutes.
Still at Ladysmith School, the 15-year-old Julian played his first match for City's reserves at Chard Town in the Western League. He was on the left wing with Cec Smyth at left-back and former Grecian Dick Plumb playing in attack for Chard. One of the first students to attend the newly-constitued Exeter College in the early 1970s, he was selected for the Devon Schools under-18 side in 1973/74 whilst continuing to occasionally play for City's various sides for another season or two.
Studying to become a teacher, he attended St Luke's College shortly before it was subsumed into Exeter University and continued to appear in local football with Leo Blanca, Ottery St Mary and Exmouth Town before a brief return to the ranks of Exeter City 'A' in 1983 that ended in injury after ten minutes.
Working as a physical education lecturer at Exeter College for over twenty years, Julian started gaining coaching qualifications from the age of nineteen and was still relatively young when he assisted in the management of some of Exeter City's teams. Much later, towards the end of the 1990s, he was invited to run City's first-ever under-12s at a time when professional clubs were starting to become involved in age-group football from the age of eight or nine upwards. The brief, that became established, was to 7 keep the group - which included future first-teamer Dean Moxey - together until the under-16s.
By now in the business of educational summer camps, he was part of Eamonn Dolan's team that developed the academy from a single fifteen-strong year-group into a venture that included around 200 players. Thereafter, with City lurching from crisis-to-crisis in the early 2000s, Julian was an enthusiast for community ownership and duly took on the role of vice-chair when the Exeter City Supporters' Trust took control of the club in 2003
Performing a variety of roles with the supporters' trust and the City Community Trust, he evenrually became chief executive, chairman (between 2014 and 2020), director of external affairs and president of Exeter City Football Club alongside serving on the board of the English Football League.
Awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for his work with the community aspects of football, he was also an advocate for the successful development of girls' and womens' football at Exeter City.
By now in the business of educational summer camps, he was part of Eamonn Dolan's team that developed the academy from a single fifteen-strong year-group into a venture that included around 200 players. Thereafter, with City lurching from crisis-to-crisis in the early 2000s, Julian was an enthusiast for community ownership and duly took on the role of vice-chair when the Exeter City Supporters' Trust took control of the club in 2003
Performing a variety of roles with the supporters' trust and the City Community Trust, he evenrually became chief executive, chairman (between 2014 and 2020), director of external affairs and president of Exeter City Football Club alongside serving on the board of the English Football League.
Awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for his work with the community aspects of football, he was also an advocate for the successful development of girls' and womens' football at Exeter City.
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