Watford FC 2-1 Tottenham Hotspurs - 02/09/2018

Discussion in 'Match Day' started by domthehornet, Aug 31, 2018.

  1. BanburyHornet

    BanburyHornet Academy Graduate

  2. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

  3. onion8837

    onion8837 Reservist

  4. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Walter Who?
     
  5. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

  6. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    Almost makes me want to drop The Times and buy the Mail instead. But as not everything they print is by this guy and about Watford, I won't
     
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  7. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    Two lovely articles about Watford read within a few minutes. What's happening? Is the present outfit being seen as the reincarnation of the 1982 lot?
     
  8. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

  9. Heidar

    Heidar Squad Player

    Thoroughly enjoy these "Another Angle" videos. John Marks is capable of making the hairs stand on end.

    Also great to have Rene Gilmartin back!
     
  10. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Does't fit the anti-Watford everyone's against us agenda.
     
  11. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Ha, I was right.
     
  12. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    It's utterly baffling that anyone could begin to believe we're hated. What could anyone possibly have against us? We must be one of the most unassuming of all the clubs in the country.

    We've got no hooligan past whatsoever (apart from Top Boy cameron, obvs). We've never been successful so have no delusions of grandeur. If we are known for anything at all, it's for being a family club. The town is small and virtually unknown with no links to racists/terrorists. Our most famous manager was hugely popular, as proven when he died. Our only celebrity fan is not hated. We didnt have an annoying plastic pitch in the past. We're just...nothing at all. There's the loans thing a few years ago but how many people can even remember that I wonder?

    It's ludicrous, and something that is only peddled by tiny-brained ******s.
     
  13. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Not strictly true, but at the time there were more notorious groups around...
     
  14. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    I bet if you asked someone to list the top 10, 20 or more teams in england they associated with hooliganism, we wouldnt appear on their list...
     
  15. cfdr0ftaW

    cfdr0ftaW Academy Graduate

    I don't think there's any hate agenda against Watford, it's more the tired cliches and lack of intelligent insight that I find vexing. Articles like the one posted above, by an opposition fan no less, show the standard that can be achieved if journalists and pundits could be bothered to scratch a little beneath the surface.
     
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  16. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Doesn't get enough clicks though does it? I know absolutely **** all about PL teams like Huddersfield and even if there was an insightful article written by a top journalist I still wouldn't read it.
     
  17. Eastcoastorn

    Eastcoastorn First Year Pro

    Think you're totally wrong on this.
    It not that we're hated by the media, Watford are just dismissed.
    Watfords hooligans are no longer like most clubs.
    To say we've never been successful is a bit harsh, it depends on who you compare with. No we haven't won a major trophy but 12 years at the top is not bad.
    The family club thing is now well and truly in the past. Yes its a club close to its community.
    Watford is small compared to some towns but the catchment area is huge.
    Think I'd agree with you that its unknown... except for its football club.
    GT was a popular club manager but not hugely popular as England manager.
    Agree Elton is a National Treasure and not hated.
    We're just "nothing at all". Not sure what this means but I've wasted a large proportion of my life supporting it!
    I do have a tiny brain....
     
  18. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    Would you read a similar article as the one above if it was about burnley? Cos I couldnt give a tiny***** about them.

    Only supporters of the team involved, or a minuscule amount of football statto nerds, read such in depth analysis. So if your fanbase is titchy - like ours is - then there is no demand and therefore no point in writing such articles.

    What I would suggest is actually going to the match to experience it all first hand, then you won't be reliant on reading about other people's impressions.
     
  19. Heidar

    Heidar Squad Player

    Sadly this is unbelievably true.

    Most popular football story of the season so far? Dele Alli doing a salute. This is a player who was in our pocket all afternoon.
     
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  20. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    "Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle all the way
    Oh what fun it is to see
    The L*ton run away
    repeat to fade"
     
  21. F**k no.
     
  22. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    "A-ga-do-do-do we're the Watford Service Crew..."

    As Germaine Greer once remarked that she was going to give a "journalist" a two-word reply to his question about the likelihood of all the female BB contestants to menstruate simultaneously:

    "Puh-lease????"
     
  23. Roger Irrelevant

    Roger Irrelevant Reservist

    Great to see Deeney fit and up for it.

    I love him but is anyone else wondering why he hasn't been like that for the last 2 seasons?
     
  24. Ybotcoombes

    Ybotcoombes Justworkedouthowtochange

    Less said about Walter the better , started well fell apart couldn’t adapt - it’s the watford way
     
  25. Jossy

    Jossy Reservist

    For those mildly interested, have collected a shed load of high-res images from Sunday's game - some of which you've probably seen, others maybe not. Rather than spam the forum with them, you can view them here: https://gifyu.com/album/pAO/?sort=date_desc&page=2

    There's some excellent ones amongst them.
     
  26. cfdr0ftaW

    cfdr0ftaW Academy Graduate

    So you're saying... I can actually go and watch Watford? I thought they were a collective figment of this forum's imagination?
     
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  27. onion8837

    onion8837 Reservist

    Surely it should be “Lees said about Walter...”
     
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  28. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Fewer said about Walter?
     
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  29. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Just following Uncle Joe's line on this; I don't want anybody with an ice pick shadowing me.
     
  30. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Still shouldn’t airbrush out the 60’s Rookery or the late-70’s/early 80’s Bogside even if the history doesn’t 100% square with the myth of the archetypical ‘family club’. It happened.
     
  31. brinnyboy1985

    brinnyboy1985 First Year Pro

    Not my era but wasn’t it the Wrecking Crew? However.....after a wiki search it says we were the Watford Risk Squad.

    Bad ass board game boys
     
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  32. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Previous eras is when anything happened...I’d accept from the mid-80’s onwards WFC have been totally lacking anything that could be called a firm; so passé
     
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  33. Bloke

    Bloke Reservist

    People's Front of Judea ? Splitters

    We're the Judean People's Front
     
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  34. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    The icepick in Mexico City must have been an unusual accoutrement.

    The hallmark of an extremely lost Alpinist or an extremely cautious Mexican in winter.
     
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  35. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Which one is Moose & which one Clive?
     

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