Graham Taylor
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Sep 18, 2026
Martin HardyGUEST
And there's some stuff in there that I do actually agree with, that kind of that DNA problem for England and English footballers.
Martin HardyGUEST
But if you kind of were to rewind history and go back to Graham Taylor arguing with journalists when he was in charge before, I think it might have even been the defeat against Holland that, as he himself said, cost him his job.
Martin HardyGUEST
Or Steve McLaren kind of saying that's it and walking out.
Martin HardyGUEST
I don't think it's a good look for the England manager to be having those discussions and perhaps showing a little bit of vulnerability by addressing them with the media.
Charlie EccleshareHOST
Died in 2017.
Charlie EccleshareHOST
Graham Taylor was the correct answer there.
Adam HurreyHOST
Oh.
Charlie EccleshareHOST
I thought you got it, Dave, with the little chuckle that he did when he scored the goal.
Ashish MalhotraHOST
Like what? Are there any examples that you can think of?
Stefan SzymanskiHOST
Oh, well, I mean, Graham Taylor, you know, his tenure in the 90s was seen as a disaster with just strange substitutions, strange selections, and so forth.
Stefan SzymanskiHOST
And the danger for Tuchel is that he can fall into that trap.
Stefan SzymanskiHOST
That's what I was wondering,
MikeHOST
Anyone could change the course of Watford history, as I'm sure we'll probably find out.
JonHOST
Well, we're not going to include managers, because the most consequential signing of any manager ever, of course, is Graham Taylor.
JonHOST
Great job by Elton.
JonHOST
But of course, he also signed Dave Bassett, who I also think has a particular consequence of him being Watford manager, as in the dive in the 1990s.
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MikeHOST
And I think our run of Premier League success was built on those first couple of months in the Premier League where we weren't a great watch.
MikeHOST
The floodgates opened a little bit away against Stoke when Troy got off the mark.
MikeHOST
But we sent out a message to the Premier League that we weren't going to be the pushover that we'd seen in our other sorties into the Premier League under Aidy Boothroyd and Graham Taylor a bit previously.
MikeHOST
And I just think that it felt like a really strategic attempt to get in some gnarly functional defenders with the talent of Nathan Aki at that stage completely unproven.
Chris ScullHOST
And I suppose if you're picking the team, if you had to pick a five-a-side team, you've got Capello, Hoddle, Keegan, and then probably Venables, I'm guessing.
Chris ScullHOST
He's certainly a better footballer than Graham Taylor, and I don't know enough about Bobby Robson.
Chris ScullHOST
So there we go.
Chris ScullHOST
That is genuinely the first and ever deep dive into the playing careers of England managers.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Where did Bobby Robson play and career? Let's have a quick look.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
20, 20 caps for England between 1957 and '62.
Chris ScullHOST
Oh, Graham Taylor was probably the first uncapped player to manage England.
Chris ScullHOST
I'm sure that's wrong, but I can't be bothered to check.
Brian LittleGUEST
But you walked out after three years, 'cause you'd had enough of him." Yeah, you couldn't put up with that stuff, no.
Brian LittleGUEST
Graham Taylor, Graham Taylor, exactly the same.
Brian LittleGUEST
Yeah.
Brian LittleGUEST
Big Ron, exactly the same.
Vincent HoganGUEST
Um, so I said, "Look, I'll, I'll do it if you give me access all areas.
Vincent HoganGUEST
And by that, I mean write to Alex Ferguson, write to Graham Taylor, write to Jack Charlton, write to all of the people in your life, but also to your first wife.
Vincent HoganGUEST
I want to understand exactly what went on in your life."
Oliver CallanHOST
Mm-hmm.
PeterHOST
We have looked at Michael Skubala enviously over about the last two or so years.
PeterHOST
And of course there's an obvious connection for Watford, in that when we brought Graham Taylor in first of all, he came from Lincoln City.
PeterHOST
So at...
PeterHOST
I'm not gonna ask him to fill those particular boots, but what are your first impressions of Michael Skubala, how he started and how he's getting things going? 'Cause he took a little while to progress Lincoln into the championship, but he did it progressively and very impressively.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Every day is a school day, isn't that what they say?
Eoin McDevittHOST
I always thought the old TV documentary about Graham Taylor's doomed attempt to qualify England for the 1994 World Cup was called The Impossible Job.
Ciaran MurphyHOST
Well, it wasn't.
Eoin McDevittHOST
It was called An Impossible Job.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Every day is a school day, isn't that what they say?
Eoin McDevittHOST
I always thought the old TV documentary about Graham Taylor's doomed attempt to qualify England for the 1994 World Cup was called The Impossible Job.
Ciarán MurphyHOST
Well, it wasn't.
Eoin McDevittHOST
It was called An Impossible Job.
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