A bright orange number 2 shirt has been flown all the way from Uganda to Watford to honour the late Graham Taylor.
The shirt sent by Ugandan football team Stegota FC – based in the capital Kampala – is now part of the many tributes lying before the Vicarage Road stadium as a gesture of gratitude to the former Watford manager.
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For more than a decade, Graham had been kindly donating his time to KitAid, a voluntary charity which sends out donated football kit to underprivileged communities across the globe.
Graham’s role as patron of the charity embraced three of his passions – football, community and family.
In 2015, he doggedly wrote to all 92 football league clubs urging them to donate their unwanted stock to benefit youngsters around the world.
Just one week before his death, a Watford shirt signed by the man himself was delivered to a rural team in Zimbabwe.
“Graham was very proud to be a patron of KitAid. We are honoured that Graham was part of KitAid and that his great passion for football lives on in the communities of thousands of football-loving youngsters around the globe,” said charity founder Derrick Williams.
“The Stegota FC shirt symbolises the difference he has made to so many young lives in the great worldwide family of family. It is their gift to Graham and I was proud to lay it down with all the other tributes.
“He was a supporter of Stegota and they have stated that he will always be loved and remembered by them.”
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