Three years after parting ways with Manager Quique Sánchez Flores, Watford brought him back.
"The Premier League season was only a few weeks old when, in the middle of a quiet Saturday evening, Watford revealed that it had fired its manager, Javi Gracia. He would be replaced, the club said, by his countryman Quique Sánchez Flores, who had himself been fired by Watford three years earlier. This was, in the eyes of most observers, the madness of modern soccer boiled down to its very essence. Gracia had, only a few months earlier, led Watford to the F.A. Cup final. He had, it was broadly agreed, done a reasonable job at one of England’s top-flight makeweights. Watford — owned by Italy’s Pozzo family, and operated according to a model in which the manager is just an employee, not some sort of all-powerful medieval potentate — stood accused of short-termism, shortsightedness, and doing things in a conspicuously foreign way. ..."
NY Times
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