Silva polishing his growing reputation with Watford


Soccer Football - Premier League - Southampton vs Watford - Southampton, Britain - September 9, 2017 Watford manager Marco Silva before the match Action Images via Reuters/Tony O'Brien

LONDON (Reuters) - Few managers enhance their reputations while taking a team to relegation but Marco Silva did so with Hull City last season. Now he is adding further gloss to it as unfashionable Watford stand fourth in the Premier League.

Little was known of the former Portuguese full back in England when Hull, bottom of the table, appointed him to succeed Mike Phelan in January.

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