Premier League football will be returning to Vicarage Road next season after Watford clinched promotion with a 1-0 victory over Millwall on Saturday.
Although the Hornets have been in the top division, or knocking on the door to get there, for the majority of the Pozzo era, this is only the fifth time in the club’s 140-year history they have made it to the pinnacle of the English game.
Apart from a three-season stay in Division Two from 1969 to 1972, Watford’s history had been spent in the lower reaches of the football pyramid. But that was to change after Elton John persuaded a young manager named Graham Taylor to swap Lincoln City’s Sincil Bank for Vicarage Road and they set about creating one of football’s great fairytales.