By John Sinnott

PSV coach Hiddink has led Australia to their first World Cup since 1974

The Football Association is hunting for a successor to Sven-Goran Eriksson, who will stand down in the summer.

And PSV Eindhoven coach Guus Hiddink, who has been linked with the England job, is part-time boss of Australia.

Taylor told BBC Sport: "I think it's extremely difficult given the intensity and pressure to look at it part-time."

PFA chief executive Taylor added: "It would send out the wrong message to public, though it's an interesting point given the fact the players aren't working 100% for the FA.

I wouldn't have thought it could be a part-time post - it is a big job Former England striker Alan Shearer

"But seeing as Eriksson's salary was worth millions of pounds a year I can't see the FA going down a part-time route.

"There is a problem of offering the job on a part-time basis to a coach working with a Premier League club, because what happens if that team suddenly starts to do badly?

"Hiddink is an exceptional case and there might be economical reasons why Australia chose to go down that route."

Within a matter of months of taking charge of Australia, Hiddink had guided the Socceroos to their first World Cup finals since 1974.

Former Scotland coach Craig Brown recalls once asking former Slovenian boss Srecko Katanec how he spent his day when he was an international manager of a country with a population of two million.

Katanec, who led Slovenia to two European Championships, told Brown he went to church in the morning and played a game of tennis in the afternoon.

Despite Katanec's more laid-back approach to his job as a international coach, Brown agrees with Taylor that any future England coach should work full-time.

"I don't think people appreciate how much work is involved.

"The England manager would probably spend as much as 40 hours each week just watching games.

"And even when I was Scotland boss and I had got home late I would try and make sure I was back at my desk at nine o'clock the next morning.

"The England manager also has an awful lot of media commitments while analysing your opponents can be time-consuming."

Former England striker Alan Shearer ruled out the possibility of the FA appointing a part-time coach.