Nick Catley says a fond farewell to Mr Holebas
Fans love players for all sorts of reasons, and José Holebas hit just about all the marks from the start. Querying whether his transfer was valid after it had been officially announced, petulant social-media sulking when he wasn’t selected, agitati...
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Nick Catley on the advent of modern technology to Vicarage Road
Nostalgia’s a funny thing. Sometimes, the things that seemed in our youth to have been set in stone forever were actually surprisingly transitory. I always think of football clubs as ‘proper’ League teams or not based on whether th...
David Harrison recalls the days of following Watford away in the Fourth Division
In retrospect I suppose my educational development was somewhat perverse.
While you lot steadily progressed through the primary and secondary years, building significant knowledge across your teens, I approached th...
Ian Grant likes Danny Graham. An awful lot.
While it may be that this fanzine has a burgeoning readership among today’s pop kids, I’m going to make an assumption and ask for your forgiveness if it’s wrong. The assumption is that you’ve probably given up on a professional football career by this...
Some wonderful days just need a crowd. Jack Ottman remembers a special match in 2015.
Brighton away in April 2015 will live long in the memory for so many Watford fans, and although the game was momentous in its own right, it’s the events which unfolded afterwards that most will treasure. That ...
Tim Turner recalls the day that his twin obsessions, football and music, intertwined – and not in a good way
As a teenager in the 70s and early 80s, I had the same two obsessions as many other boys: football and pop music. My footballsupporting life began with my first visit to Vicarage Road, a...
Colin Payne looks at old film footage of how they did pre-season training in 1964
Sometimes it is all too easy to get lost down the rabbit hole of yellow-YouTube reminiscing. Too damn easy. You start by looking up Gerard Deulofeu’s sublime goal on a pristine pitch at Wembley – just to remind yo...
Peter Morgan recalls some of the lesser-known Watford games during his first 50 years following the Hornets
Let’s start at the very beginning.
A very good place to start. Before any of you burst into song, I am referring to the first game I ever attended. It was 12 days after my brother’s 10th ...