Dave Watson’s career at Rotherham United is not well known. His fame came as a fearless centre half, winning the FA Cup with Sunderland and the League Cup with Manchester City, and collecting 65 England caps in eight years.
At Rotherham, though, they rate him as perhaps their finest ever player. They signed him for next to nothing from Notts County in 1967, a time when he still featured occasionally as a striker, sold him three years later for £100,000 and have re-embraced him during his years of illness.
Watson is 76, his dementia is quite advanced, and he is a regular at the Millers Memory Club, a monthly gathering for ex-players devised and hosted by John Breckin, a club legend and honorary life president.