Wednesday, December 20, 1978
Watford broke the club transfer record and the record for a third division club to paying £175,000 for Leicester City's powerful centre-back Steve Sims.
The England 'B' international would enjoy two spells at Vicarage Road making over 200 appearances for the club before following Graham Taylor to Aston Villa in 1987.
Reproduced by kind permission of Matt Rowson from his book, Watford FC On This Day
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