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Graham Taylor RIP

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,840
    RIP Graham, a sad loss

    A word for Elton John too to lose GT and George Michael within 2/3 weeks.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    Just reading/watching all the news and tributes pouring in. A very popular and well respected man
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    RIP one of football's good guys
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    edited January 2017
    Gutted to hear this news, what Graham did at Watford was incredible, and put them on the map.
    It would be like us losing Curbishley.

    I remember when he was manager of Wolves, I think it was not lng after he got the boot from the England job ,the team were staying in the Marriott @ Bexleyheath, and due to play Charlton at the Valley, and I was living in Bexleyheath at the time, and went down to the playing fields at Hall Place in the morning to have a kick around , lo and behold Graham had the same idea, he was down their having a kick about with the Wolves team!

    The funny thing was a Bexley ranger came along, and kicked them all off!

    I shouted out to Graham, do I not like that , and proceeded to say to him he could bring the team round to my back garden if he liked for a kick about.

    Being the gentlemen he was, he politely declined.

    A top guy, who loved his footie, going to miss him.
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    Total respect RIP
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,147
    Southendaddick said:

    RIP a good man and manager who is a Watford legend.

    Just hope The Sun can avoid any reference to turnips in their headlines tomorrow as he deserves better

    They will pretend it never happened as usual Tim. Most of their readers don't care what happened last week, let alone what happened over 20 years ago.
  • 25May98
    25May98 Posts: 712
    I don't think Watford have been outside the top two divisions since he got them to the top flight many years ago now. You can take that with you Graham. You will never be forgotten at WFC. RIP.

    My first game at the Valley was against Graham Taylor's Watford. 1984. FA Cup. We lost 2-0 and Watford went to the final that year.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,776
    That has made me very sad. RIP Graham. What a shock.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    As others have said, proper football man and a sad loss to the game. I know he didn't have the 'success' that Bobby Robson did with England, but domestically he was a match and seems to have been just a nice a fella.

    Liked listening to him on the radio, perhaps a bit old school in some of his ideas, but I always prefer to hear a pundit who has actually achieved as a manger rather than one who either didn't have the balls to try it or had a go and failed.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    RIP. I'll always remember that documentary where everything he said was mimicked by Lawrie McMenemy
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  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    Bangkokaddick said:

    RIP. I'll always remember that documentary where everything he said was mimicked by Lawrie McMenemy

    Phil Neal.

    McMenemy's contribution was to bellow "Haway the Lads" every 15 minutes.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    What he did a Watford was amazing. He played long ball but not like Wimbledon - He was adaptable and I think underated. The England job didn't suit him IMO. He has to go down as a great manager though and by all accounts a decent bloke.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,273
    Lovely story about Graham Taylor doing the rounds on twitter today:
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,840
    Lovely story
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    killerandflash said:

    RIP Graham, a sad loss

    A word for Elton John too to lose GT and George Michael within 2/3 weeks.

    I thought we were banned from mentioning Elton John.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,945
    edited October 2021
    The Impossible Job is on Channel 4 tonight at 11.10pm for anyone who fancies it, I'm hoping it pops up on All4 afterwards as I'm more likely.to get a chance to watch it tomorrow!

    One of the best football documentaries I've watched but I've not seen it in a while.

    https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/how-to-watch-an-impossible-job-graham-taylor-england-documentary-film-channel-4-stream
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,593
    North Lower Neil said:
    The Impossible Job is on Channel 4 tonight at 11.10pm for anyone who fancies it, I'm hoping it pops up on All4 afterwards as I'm more likely.to get a chance to watch it tomorrow!

    One of the best football documentaries I've watched but I've not seen it in a while.

    https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/how-to-watch-an-impossible-job-graham-taylor-england-documentary-film-channel-4-stream
    Watching it now. I was at all the games in the group apart from San Marino away. England were awful in some of those games, Norway away was the worst England performance I’ve ever witnessed live. Met Taylor (and all the England team) in the departure lounge bar after Turkey away. Felt a bit sorry for him as although we’d won, you could tell he was uncomfortable being around England fans. Laurie McMenemy was never far from his side and appeared to be looking out for him. Had a chat and he was a genuinely nice guy.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,593
    2 things from that programme both stand out and piss me off. Why the hell wasn’t Koeman wasn’t sent off and the scene with the FA committee. Bunch of overpaid, self serving, under qualified dinosaurs. No wonder English football was in such a mess.
  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,440
    Met him at The Valley after he'd been doing a bit of punditry, nothing but complimentary about us, genuinely decent man who was so nice to have a 10 minute chat with. Did really have the impossible job. 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,241
    DaveMehmet said:
    2 things from that programme both stand out and piss me off. Why the hell wasn’t Koeman wasn’t sent off and the scene with the FA committee. Bunch of overpaid, self serving, under qualified dinosaurs. No wonder English football was in such a mess.
    That still blows my mind, Platt, at the peak of his powers clean through and gets pulled down, if it isn't us going one nil up its Koeman getting sent off and then the blonde ponce goes up the other end and peels one in. 

    I think that was the angriest I'd ever been over a football game until the the 5-1 shellacking at Tottenham, soon to be usurped by the 4 nil at the scum under parkinson 
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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,995
    DaveMehmet said:
    2 things from that programme both stand out and piss me off. Why the hell wasn’t Koeman wasn’t sent off and the scene with the FA committee. Bunch of overpaid, self serving, under qualified dinosaurs. No wonder English football was in such a mess.
    I don't know what you mean. This young, up and coming, forward thinking lot? I'm sure a couple of them are asleep and a couple of others can't be a day under 80.




  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Thoroughly decent bloke. He made mistakes for sure but a lot of things conspired against him. A thoroughly decent human 

    RIP

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