David Harrison has almost completely recovered from witnessing Watford’s most embarrassing afternoon of the 1970s
We’ll start with a simple question for Treasury readers.
‘Which two words are most likely to trigger significant distress amongst Watford fans in their mid-fifties and beyond?’ Act...
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Olly Wicken gets excited about Vicarage Road fixtures and fittings
One of the many joys of writing for the Watford Treasury is looking through old photographs.
My favourite time as a Watford fan was the first Graham Taylor era, and I love browsing photos from this period for the rush of nostal...
Tom Brodrick looks back to a quirky, motorised version of football played at Vicarage Road, and unearths the forgotten story of Watford’s first – victorious – outing at Wembley.
Watford FC had barely had five years’ tenancy at their new ground, when the motorbike craze swept through the country...
James Garrett offers a personal appraisal of Almen Abdi
My favourite Watford players have always been creative midfielders: those players who have a different way of thinking, of looking at the game, of having that extra second on the ball. Maybe it’s because we haven’t had that many of them t...
It’s no exaggeration to say that the 1881 has changed the match-day atmosphere at Vicarage Road beyond recognition. Colin Payne meets the group’s founder Roy Moore to discuss what makes the group so special.
There was never a more aptly named building than The Bunker. Situated hidden at the fo...
For fans in the 1980s, the sound of Radio Hornet was part of the Vicarage Road matchday experience. Its voice Adam Cummings reminisces with Geoff Wicken
“Would the owner of the white Ford Escort parked illegally in Cardiff Road please move it immediately, as it’s causing an obstruction. If yo...
Colin Payne looks at programmes from years gone by with a story to tell. Watford v Corinthian-Casuals. Sheriff of London Shield 3 October 1966 and 28 March 1983.
The most recent winners of the biggest trophy ever awarded in football are Watford Football Club. The Sheriff of London Shield is a...
The West Herts / Watford Rovers players sported at least three different colours of shirts in the 1892 Herts County Cup Final, as Geoff Wicken relates.
Alongside its match report from the previous week’s cup final (in which the team are referred to as West Herts throughout) the Watford Observe...
Ian Grant considers Gianluca Vialli’s time at Vicarage Road.
The summer of 2001 was a time of inevitable change, given Graham Taylor's retirement.
It was truly the end of an era. Perhaps, as noted in volume 2, that end actually came with relegation from the Premiership; perhaps it came with a...
Geoff Wicken salutes a modern-day Watford treasure
It’s not often that a player gets the kind of chance that Heurelho Gomes has had to say an extended farewell to a club’s supporters: the circumstances don’t come around very frequently. But it’s not often that a player makes such an impact, be...
Colin Payne looks back at a time when the world would change forever.
As the ‘war to end all wars’ broke out, with patriotic men clambering to enlist to play their part in the ensuing heroics, football in the summer of 1914 continued. The Battle of Marne, the clash that was to see the introducti...
Neil Dunham takes a look back at Watford Rovers’ home grounds
Whether by chance or design, ‘Rovers’ was the perfect moniker for the initial incarnation of Watford’s football club. In the first ten years of their existence they were based at no fewer than five grounds in and around the town. On...