<table class="storycontent" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><div class="mxb"><h1>Elton returning to Vicarage Road </h1></div></td></tr><tr><td class="storybody"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="226" align="right" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><div> <div class="cap">John (right) is close friends with Hornets director Graham Taylor</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="first">Watford have announced that former chairman Sir Elton John is returning to the Championship club. </p> He will take up the role of honorary life president, the position he resigned in November because of his disenchantment with events at the club. </p> The 62-year-old told the club website: "Watford FC is in my blood. Wherever I am in the world I cannot resist keeping up with the news about Watford. </p> "I am encouraged to know the team has been playing better." </p> The music superstar is reunited with close friend Graham Taylor, who joined the board in January. </p> Taylor was manager of the Hornets whilst John was chairman for over a decade between the mid-'70s and mid-'80s, and then again from the late-'90s until 2002.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="231" align="right" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 5px"></td><td class="sibStdQuote"><div><div class="mva">He is as passionate a person, when it comes to Watford, as you would wish to meet </div></div><div class="mva"><div class="mva">Watford chairman Jimmy Russo</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> John said: "I wish the new chairman and the board, the manager, the team and all Watford's loyal supporters a very successful conclusion to the season and I hope that in the summer next year we shall all be able to come together for another concert to benefit the club." </p> Current Watford chairman Jimmy Russo said: "I am delighted that Elton is once again a part of this great football club. </p> "He is as passionate a person, when it comes to Watford, as you would wish to meet and he has been fully supportive of myself, my brother Vince and, of course, the manager Brendan Rodgers. </p> "The current board were very keen to re-engage with Sir Elton and we all see this as nothing but a positive move for the club, the supporters and Sir Elton John." </p></td></tr></tbody></table>
He has perhaps given them a loan from his vast pot To save them from Administration today. Another club we have to contend with on playing points :'( :'( :'(
