did he? ithink.i prefer you, elton. laughs i go crazy every weekend. yeah. you know? weekends can be doom and gloom, especially recently. still? even now? it just ruins my life. i don t know about you, i ve found as i ve got older, the results seem to. you just think to yourself, come on, you re a mature old man now. but it still affects your weekend. it gets worse. it does, doesn t it? it really gets worse. i think now within the club we ve got valerien ismael as the manager and what he s come in to do is trying to stabilise a club that s been firing managers left, right and centre. and the players, you know, i think because of the firings of managers, they lost their confidence. what did you make of that? i mean, it was like three or four a season at one point. oh, yeah. imean. madness, wasn t it? yeah, it was mad. yeah. it was mad. look at rob edwards. yeah. you know, he s gone to luton, which are our rival team, and he s doing very well. good luck to him. yeah. i think he s com
that you ve got to have someone to stabilise, give them a period of time, which he s beginning to do, to get them to play without fear, to play with confidence and to have discipline, because the discipline here has not been good, and that takes a long while. so, people are saying, well, he played great football at barnsley, he played great football at west brom. you have to give him some time. elton, it s been an absolute pleasure. thank you, gary. and lovely to see you again. and i ll show you the scar that you were down in the dressing room, that point, at that time. thank you so much. thank you very much. fascinating. hello there. it s been a very cold week, pretty much wherever you are, but things are set to turn even colder for this upcoming week, thanks to arctic northerlies, which will feed in plenty of wintry showers around all coastal areas, particularly ones facing the north, especially northern scotland, and nights will be very cold with severe frost
# and i think it s gonna be a long, long time. elton, lovely to see you. lovely to talk to you. congratulations on the book i ve thoroughly enjoyed it. there s something that s not in it. i came to watford with leicester city a long time ago, around 79 80, and one of our players got a terrible gash in his leg and was carried off and had to have stitches in the dressing room and you went down to comfort him. do you have any memory of that? i don t. that was me. really? i don t. that was me. it was you? it was me. and you came down in the second half to see if i was all right, and that s something that s always stuck with me. and it was a very special moment, yeah. you ve got the book, watford forever. why now? why are you doing that book now? i was approached byjohn preston, who wrote the book,
sir stanley rous used to be the life president. did he? ithink.i prefer you, elton. elton laughs i go crazy every weekend. yeah. you know? weekends can be doom and gloom, especially recently. still? even now? it just ruins my life. i don t know about you, i ve found as i ve got older, the results seem to. you just think to yourself, come on, you re a mature old man now. but it still affects your weekend. it gets worse. it does, doesn t it? it really gets worse. i think now within the club we ve got valerien ismael as the manager, and what he s come in to do is trying to stabilise a club that s been firing managers left, right and centre. and the players, you know, i think because of the firings of managers, they lost their confidence. what did you make of that? i mean, it was like three or four a season at one point. oh, yeah. imean. madness, wasn t it? yeah, it was mad. yeah. it was mad. look at rob edwards. yeah. you know, he s gone to luton, which are our rival team, and he s do
# and i think it s gonna be along, long time. elton, lovely to see you. lovely to talk to you. congratulations on the book i ve thoroughly enjoyed it. there s something that s not in it. i came to watford with leicester city a long time ago, around 79 80, and one of our players got a terrible gash in his leg and was carried off and had to have stitches in the dressing room and you went down to comfort him. do you have any memory of that? i don t. that was me. really? i don t. that was me. it was you? it was me. and you came down in the second half to see if i was all right, and that s something that s always stuck with me. and it was a very special moment, yeah. you ve got the book, watford forever. why now? why are you doing that book now? i was approached byjohn preston, who wrote the book,