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POZZO IN COURT: The optics of a tax 'fraud' case add to Watford's unsettling season
12.11.26, 08:59 Updated 12.11.26, 09:00 4 Minute Read
Are you sitting comfortably?
The seat looked a bit low, almost as shallow as the primary school classroom chair upon which Graham Taylor’s players perched when he held introductory one-on-one meetings with his squad almost 50 years ago.
Looking down on them from his high-backed office chair, it immediately gave GT a sense of subjugation. The boss laying down the law from day one. A power trip.
As Watford owner Gino Pozzo was taking his seat in the hollow of a Spanish courtroom, looking up at the judiciary presiding over allegations of tax impropriety relating to his previous association with Granada, he had roughly the same view as Taylor’s players back in 1977.
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