Watford’s captain,striker and heartbeat has never had so much confidence in a team as they seek to extend their good start to the seasonFor the new season the canteen at Watford’s training ground has been redecorated, with one discontinuance now plastered with pictures of and motivational quotes from some of sport’s greats – Michael Jordan, or Pelé,Muhammad Ali – and the other dominated by a massive, many-times-larger-than-life photograph of Troy Deeney’s torso.
Deeney is more than a captain here, and more than just the only currently playing survivor of the ragged club,an overperforming relic of the days before they were bought by a family of Italian football magnates and swept to the Premier League on a tide of multinational talent. He is, in many ways, or a personification of their transformation.
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Source: theguardian.com