This is why we all go to football....spend all our hard earned cash, stand in the cold and rain, in a futile pursuit of happiness........ .........then suddenly it all seems worth it
Looks like the Gooners are turning on each other http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/watch-arsenal-fans-clash-outside-7549865
I haven't had a poster of a Watford player on my bedroom wall for over 30 years, but I so want one with Troy lifting the FA cup... Best. Poster. Ever.
haven't read every post so sorry if I'm repeating but Pants point blank save was every bit a game winner as Gueds lightning bolt and Welbecks miss..
If you mean from Giroud you can credit him for being in the right place for sure but it basically hit him before he could really react.
Was it a particularly good save though? He just shot it straight at the keeper and he just had to stand there. Admittedly, 'just stand there' is all you have to do if you're Big Pants.
While I'm happy tonight, I'm so so so determined that today won't be our cup final, in the way it turned out to be sadly after we won at Arsenal in the quarters in 87. Today will count for little now if we fail to reach the final. We've lost our last 3 FA cup semi finals, and all 4 when we've played a top division opponent. Being at Wembley is just a smokescreen really..in my opinion the semi finals shouldn't be staged there and the special feeling of winning through to play there should be reserved for the final. The last time we reached a cup semi, we were bottom of the league, and the PL's top two sides (Chelsea and United) were both in the hat. This time our possible opponents are two clubs outside the top ten and either the side currently 5th or 6th.. We really have a chance of only our second ever cup final in our long history..it's so very exciting but equally so daunting now to be getting so close and to have a genuine chance too.
I dunno why I haven't posted on here yet but now's as good a time as any. I'm so glad I was able to go thanks to a last minute change to see that. From the pub to the stands it was a brilliant day. The weird thing is that I felt Arsenal were unlucky not to get a goal (not that I'm the slightest bit bothered by that). We instantly sat deep but were clever with how we closed them down and stifled them. Ighalo and especially Deeney bust a gut today to stretch the game, but in the first half we weren't that great. Second half there was a huge difference. Defensively we were still doing the same thing but we were much cleverer with our build-up play going forward (bar the odd misplaced pass from Watson). After Iggy scored the first we actually started to out-Arsenal Arsenal (i.e. play on the ground, good quick passing triangles, sexy football, etc.). The game stretched and Iggy had two/three golden chances to score before the beautiful pearler from Gueds. Just unreal. It was surreal for me because when the ball crossed the goal line both times, it felt like we didn't actually score and I was dreaming. That became a very familiar thought for the rest of the match but, for me, it felt like it was our day. Welbeck will rue that miss for some time and that was a heart-in-mouth moment akin to Mackail-Smith and Brighton away last year. We held on though, and the celebrations...... Let's paint Wembley yellow when we get there
Since the Pozzos took over: 12/13: First season under Zola. Beautiful, attacking football never seen before at Watford with players that we could have only dreamed of previously. A rollercoaster of a season, peaking with one of the most incredible moments ever seen in football and reaching the new Wembley for the first time in our history. 13/14: Not great, but a season we would have all loved pre-Pozzos. 14/15: A season that started farcically, but ultimately ended with a brilliant run of results in thrilling games. We seal promotion with a game to spare after a wonderful day out in Brighton and that beautiful Vydra moment. 15/16: First season back in the PL. We start the season well and comfortably beat established PL teams, pretty much securing our safety by Christmas. Just as the season seems to be tailing off we go to the Emirates and beat Arsenal, get to the semi finals of the FA Cup for the first time in nearly a decade and are now in a position where we have a very realistic chance of winning our first ever major trophy.
Also, massive credit to Ighalo for trying to pass to Deeney TWICE. Sign of a great person is one who can listen to criticism and work on it (at least for me anyway), well done Iggy.
I wouldn't swap the Pozzos for any other owners in World football. They are truly magnificent, an unstoppable force of nature. You can take your billionaire Americans, Arabs & Russians & stick them where the sun don't shine.
Ironically, he was probably better placed to go for a shot on both occasions. Agree that it's good to see him link up more with Deeney, but I think it goes some way to support my point earlier in the week that we wouldn't necessarily be better off if Ighalo passed more instead of shooting.
Capoue's outside of the foot pass was so good it deserved a goal! But if Ighalo had just played that a little earlier Deeney would've been through, it's good to see him try though and he'll get better at it. Mertersacker did well to block the angle too so it wasn't an easy pass to Troy.
I think the Arsenal fans have taken the banter in good grace in fairness, and several were complementary towards us on 5Live/Talksport. Summed it up when walking towards Finsbury Park station and a few of us were taunting the Arsenal fans saying "Spurs are gonna win it" and a female Gooner said "No, I think Leicester are going to win it"!
I haven't read any of the other posts yet but I will do to check everybody is as chuffed as me! But for now, wherever you are, whether you go to the games or not, how bloody great is it to support our little old club at the moment. Can we go and win it? Why the hell not. I could not be a prouder fan tonight
The most arrogant fans in the PL by far. Their chants at the Vic of 'we'll never play here again' sums the arrogant cents up. I hope they are fecking suffering tonight.
The ref had a choice between earning £123500 at a concert and £123.50 for reffing Luton, wrong decision Michael!
