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

The unforgettable story, decades before John bought his beloved Watford FC when it was near the bottom of English football, then carried it to glory in alliance with manager Graham Taylor  his polar opposite. The rock star collaborated with Preston, a skilled and versatile writer, for this English-odd-couple feelgood story. A warm and redemptive tale...packed with anecdotes, moments that skewer the times with economy and prevision. Plus endless laugh-out-loud yarns&as Preston tells [Elton John and Graham Taylors] story, it rattles along at page-turning pace...it reads, indeed, like the script of a movie. You don't have to be a Watford fan to enjoy this terrific book. It is about much more than the unlikely friendship between one of the most famous stars on the planet, who as a boy had loved being taken to Watford matches by his distant father, and the fiercely ambitious son of a sports editor who wanted, in his managerial achievements, to make up for an undistinguished playing career. The original football fairytale of a small club rising from the bottom to the top. It is hard to read Entwining sport, music and social history, the absorbing A rollicking period tale of footballing success... A wonderful, feel-good account of an ultimately English provincial story, If John Preston hasnt already sold the film rights to this book, he surely will soon. Affectionately rough-and-tumble portrait of a small-town British soccer team. A real-life Ted Lasso tale of a perennial underdog sparked to lifeand fans of Sir Elton will enjoy it, too. Preston skillfully spins Watfords ascent into a rousing underdog story, and his access to John reveals a more intimate side of the pop star... This will have readers cheering. US