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his wife and sat down with me in my house in windsor, and i convinced him to be manager. but then, i think the thing that really convinced him was that bert millichip, of west bromwich albion, said, what are you going there for? you know, you re turning us down to go to that club. and i can see bert s point of view, absolutely. how did you sell the idea to him, then? because, obviously, he had other people that wanted him to go to their club. i don t know we just clicked. it was like i ve had two great relationships in my life in football and music. bernie taupin came from lincoln. graham came from lincoln. it s weird. and it was one of the greatest moments of my life when he said yes because i really felt as if i d done something outside of music that i never thought i could do. i convinced him that we would be in europe in six years. you convinced him ? yeah. cos normally, it has to be the other way round the manager needs to convince the chairman. isaid, listen, we ve go
and to his credit, he came down and with rita, his wife, and sat down with me in my house in windsor, and i convinced him to be manager. but then, i think the thing that really convinced him was that bert millichip, of west bromwich albion, said, what are you going there for? you know, you re turning us down to go to that club. and i can see bert s point of view, absolutely. how did you sell the idea to him, then? because, obviously, he had other people that wanted him to go to their club. i don t know. we just clicked. it was like i ve had two great relationships in my life in football and music. bernie taupin came from lincoln. graham came from lincoln. it s weird. and it was one of the greatest moments of my life when he said yes because i really felt as if i d done something outside of music that i never thought i could do. i convinced him that we would be in europe in six years. you convinced him ? yeah. cos normally, it has to be the other way round the manager needs to co
in my house in windsor, and i convinced him to be manager. but then, i think the thing that really convinced him was that bert millichip, of west bromwich albion, said, what are you going there for? you know, you re turning us down to go to that club. and i can see bert s point of view, absolutely. how did you sell the idea to him, then? because, obviously, he had other people that wanted him to go to their club. i don t know we just clicked. it was like i ve had two great relationships in my life in football and music. bernie taupin came from lincoln. graham came from lincoln. it s weird. and it was one of the greatest moments of my life when he said yes because i really felt as if i d done something outside of music that i never thought i could do. i convinced him that we would be in europe in six years. you convinced him ? yeah. cos normally, it has to be the other way round the manager needs to convince the chairman. isaid, listen, we ve got to be in europe. you ve got t