Tag: Watford

Graham Taylor: A Life Well-Lived 

Graham Taylor: A Life Well-Lived 

Posted by | Jan 12, 2017 | , | 0

They say that you can judge a man by the company that he keeps. In a similar spirit, when somebody dies, you can judge their character as a human being by the warmth and generosity of the tributes that they receive. If we accept this as a given, we have learnt a lot about Graham Taylor today, following the news of his death at the age of seventy-two. These tributes have been widespread, heartfelt, and sincere, and have come from all four corners of English football’s vast and diverse community, from former players and pundits, from the supporters of...

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Watford & The Doctored Letter

Watford & The Doctored Letter

Posted by | Oct 25, 2016 | , | 0

The headlines may well turn out to be worse than any eventual sanction that the club faces, but there can be little question that those headlines are very damaging indeed, and that the ultimate matter of what happens next to Watford Football Club after the revelations made in the Daily Telegraph this morning is out of the club’s hands. The Telegraph reported that, when the club transferred its ownership from Giampaolo Pozzo to his son Gino in the summer of 2014, a forged document – a letter from the HSBC Bank – was used to prove to the Football...

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Video of the Day: Norwich City vs Watford, April 1984

Video of the Day: Norwich City vs Watford, April 1984

Posted by | May 10, 2016 | | 0

Tomorrow night at Carrow Road, Norwich City’s season meets its potential breaking point. They need to win both of their remaining games in order to have any chance of avoiding relegation, and the first of these matches comes against a mid-table Watford team with little left of note to play for this season. Even this might not be enough should results go their way elsewhere, but Norwich have one result against Watford that they can look back upon with considerable fondness from a little over thirty-two years ago. Watford’s promotion to the First Division in 1982 had come with...

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Video of the Day: West Bromwich Albion vs Watford, April 1983

Video of the Day: West Bromwich Albion vs Watford, April 1983

Posted by | Apr 14, 2016 | | 0 |

This weekend’s Premier League match between Watford and West Bromwich Albion falls quite squarely into that category of matches that we might consider “dead rubbers.” Both of the teams competing have already done enough to ensure that relegation isn’t going to be troubling their minds over the last few weeks of the season, whilst the possibility of European qualification is also beyond both clubs, for this season. And for today’s video we’re going all the way back to the corresponding fixture from – more or less – this weekend, thirty-three years ago. Watford were heading for Europe for the...

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Video of the Day: Watford vs Everton, August 1982

Video of the Day: Watford vs Everton, August 1982

Posted by | Apr 8, 2016 | | 0 |

The tangled webs we weave. It is something of a peculiarity of football history that the fortunes of Watford and Everton should have intertwined in the past, but it is a phenomenon exists, at least from the perspective of the Hornets. The club’s first – and to date only – FA Cup final appearance came against them in the 1984 FA Cup final and they share the same music in the form of the title music to the TV show Z-Cars, which is based on the traditional folk song “Johnny Todd”, a traditional folk song strongly associated with the...

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