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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.
How you re celebrating Watford s promotion back to the Premier League The dust may have started to settle but fans are continuing to congratulate Watford on promotion back to the Premier League and share pictures of their celebrations. Almost nine months after the Hornets were relegated following a defeat at Arsenal, Xisco Munoz’s men ensured they would bounce back at the first time of asking by beating Millwall 1-0 on Saturday to secure the second automatic promotion berth alongside Norwich City. It continued a great run of form for the Hornets, with a 13th win from their last 16 games and equalled their club record of 18 victories at Vicarage Road this season.
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Although seven different goalkeepers appeared for Watford during the 1970s, the position was dominated by one man. Andy Rankin was Watford’s player of the decade, writes Geoff Wicken. To be a Watford supporter in the early and mid-1970s was, mostly, a dispiriting experience. The six seasons starting from 1971/72 saw almost continuous decline. There were two relegations, in 1971/72 and 1974/75, followed by two years of stasis in Division Four. Then everything changed. The turnaround inspired by Graham Taylor’s arrival brought the two consecutive promotions of 1977/78 and 1978/79. Those six years of gloom were followed by two of dramatic upturn, and by autumn 1979 Watford were back in Division Two, where they had been eight years earlier.
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