Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other

Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other 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 Johns 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 footballs 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 sports great underdog stories and a love letter to the beau [...] Autor: John Preston, Elton John Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd Rok wydania: 2023 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 304 Wymiary: 16.2 x 24.2 x 3 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9780241597903