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| Title Statement | Watford forever: how Graham Taylor and Elton John saved a football club, a town and each other / John Preston, in collaboration with Elton John. |
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| Author | Preston, John, 1953- |
| Additional Contributors | John, Elton |
| Publication | New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,2024.©2023 |
| Edition | First American edition. |
| Extent of Item | xii, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates |
| ISBN | 9781324095477 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07708827 |
| General Notes | "With a new American introduction"--Cover. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index. |
| Summary | "Nothing has brought English soccer more immediately into the American mainstream than Ted Lasso, which captivated the nation in thirty-four episodes over three seasons. But before there was Jason Sudeikis's lovable and, at first, hapless AFC Richmond, there was Watford Football Club, a team from the outskirts of London with barely enough fans to fill its stands -- and which, in the mid-1970s, was languishing in 92nd place at the bottom of the last division of the English Football League. That is, until rock superstar Elton John -- who, with his dad, had followed the team as a boy -- bought the lowly franchise and, with legendary manager Graham Taylor, transformed the luckless football club into a top-seeded Premier League team. Inspiring, funny, and ultimately heartbreaking, Watford Forever recalls the improbably tender relationship between Elton John and Taylor, a straight-talking former fullback, who together beat the odds and their personal demons to save a club and a struggling community"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Soccer teams--History--England |
| Soccer--History--England--Watford | |
| Soccer--20th century--Great Britain | |
| Sports journalism--Authorship | |
| By Name | John, Elton |
| Watford Football Club | |
| Taylor, Graham,1944- | |
| Watford Football Club--History--20th century | |
| Watford Football Club--History--21st century | |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Personal narratives | |
