Drama And Absurdity On The Last Day Of The Championship Season
At the end of a long and tiring season in the Championship there was all to play for on the last day, but no-one could have expected the drama that...
Posts Tagged: "Watford"
The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
Watford’s Big Picture Problems
The take-over of an English football club by the owner of an Italian club passed somewhat quietly on account of the European Championships but, as Paul Grech, writes Watfords tie-in...
Watford FC: Laurence Bassini Is Unwell
I was still researching Watford owner Laurence Bassini’s last no-show at a fans’ forum when the headline “Watford owner to face fans’ Q&A” appeared on the BBC Football website’s...
After Notts County: England’s Club Owners. Are They Any Good?
“Are they any good?” It’s a simple question. And it is in the top one of questions supporters should ask of bidders for football clubs. But, as the BBC’s flagship...
Odd Goings-On At Blackburn And Watford
There was a rumour circulating recently that Watford Football Club were in takeover negotiations with someone who had neither changed his name nor had a troubled business and financial background....
2010: A Football Financial Review
You could frame it. If you wanted a short, pithy representation of all that has been wrong with football finance in 2010, you could do no better than quote a...
Match Of The Week: Derby County 4-1 Watford
What, one wonders, were the expectations of Derby County supporters upon the appointment of Nigel Clough in December 2008? Easy though it is to try and draw comparisons twixt father...
At The Sharp End… Dispatches From Southend, Cardiff, Watford, Preston & Portsmouth
One of the most useful research tools for football finance writing is the “Football Management” site run by Dr. John Beech of Coventry University. Dr. Beech took ten days off...
Watford Football Club: Safe, For 364 Days
While much focus has been on the foot of the Premier League, with the continuing financial travails of relegated Hull and Portsmouth and damn-near relegated West Ham, the foot of...
The Value Of Shareholder Democracy At Rangers & Watford
Both Watford and Rangers have had disagreements at boardroom level over the last couple of weeks. Mark Murphy has been looking at both clubs, and arrives at the conclusion that...
Watford’s Financial Gap – Finding A Way To Bridge It
Watford are in financial trouble, but they should be able to find £5m from Elton John or Lord Ashcroft even if they are currently being run by two brothers that...
Agents: Worth More Than Crystal Palace And Watford?
Crystal Palace and Watford are the two latest clubs to have made somewhat worrying news about their financial viability over the last few days or so, and it all jars...
Six FA Cup Semi-Finals
It seems almost difficult to believe in this day and age, but there was a time that FA Cup semi-finals mattered. Getting to Wembley was an end to itself. The...
Up The Avenue
Of the smaller clubs that have had runs in the FA Cup over the years, some have had unhappy endings. Enfield, who became a national name in the 1970s and...
A Brave New World
Whilst noble in principle, the Abercrombie Report could hardly now be described as having been an unqualified success. The report, which advocated the mass decampment of a million and a...
The Goal That Never Was
It was, by any standards, the most bizarre moment of the football season so far, and it’s difficult to imagine that it will be bettered. During Saturday afternoon’s match in...