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Watford Forever - How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other (Paperback)
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Watford Forever - How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other (Paperback)
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An unforgettable British underdog story from one of our greatest
narrative nonfiction writers, John Preston, and the international
musical icon and bestselling author, Sir Elton John.
Britain in the 1970s was beset by unrest and unemployment, as inflation
soared, fuel was scarce, and hooliganism was on the rise. And for
Watford FC, the outlook was even gloomier. Rundown and rat-infested,
Watford were an ailing side with holes in their kit and barely enough
fans to fill a stand. Of the 92 clubs in the Football League, spread
across four divisions, Watford were in 92nd place.
Meanwhile, Elton John was the most successful rockstar in the world.
With six-inch platforms, spangled jumpsuits, and peroxide hair, he was
glamorous, gay, and seemingly a world away from the semi-detached house
in Pinner where he had supported Watford FC as a child. Many assumed he
would move to America. Instead, he bought the football club.
Watford Forever is the remarkable story of Elton John's ownership of
Watford FC and its transformational journey to the top of the First
Division under iconic manager Graham Taylor. Perhaps most remarkably,
four of the same players who had been written off as has-beens went
with them all the way from the bottom to the top. Inspiring and
infectiously funny, this is a tribute to football's unlikeliest
friendship as Elton John and Taylor, a straight-talking former fullback
with a love of Vera Lynn, beat the odds and their personal demons to
save a club and a community.
Immersed in the grime and glamour of '70s Britain, Watford Forever is
one of sport's great underdog stories and a love letter to the
beautiful game.
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