Steven Frank Sims

Watford paid what was then a record fee for a Third Division club for this strapping centre-half and long-throw specialist, who went on to help the club establish itself in the top flight. Graham Taylor was later to bring him to Vicarage Road for a second time – and then sign him yet again for Aston Villa. The last of his 219 first-team outings for Watford was the 1986/87 FA Cup Semi-final – injury had kept him out of the corresponding fixture three years earlier. In his one England ‘B’ appearance, in May 1978, he was replaced by substitute Glenn Roeder. Steve Sims’s father Frank, also a centre-half, made three Football League appearances for Lincoln City.

West Herts / Watford Career