The ugly realities behind the beautiful game
The Economist on the eve of the 2018 World Cup: “VLADIMIR PUTIN rarely speaks English in public, but he...
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World Cup 2018 predictions
It is just a week until the start of the 2018 World Cup. Unfortunately being held in Russia –...
Martinez pitches Fighters to 5-3 win over Giants
From the Japan Times: and yes, we were there! Nick Martinez entered his first interleague contest in Japan with...
A new low for the season
Watching Watford this season is painful. It was last season. And that is the trouble. We are not progressing...
Australian cricket and the moral high ground
Australia captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner have been banned by Cricket Australia for a year for ball-tampering....
Arriverderci Walter
Another season ends and another Watford manager leaves. He will not be remembered. His football was plodding and dull....
“This remarkable, charming man”
Graham Taylor – by Ian Grant for the Watford fanzine – Blind, Stupid and Desperate. This article was not...
Graham Taylor – 1944 to 2017
Picture – Watford Observer In 1977 Elton John, then President of Watford FC, heeded the words of Don Revie...
Thirty years on – a tale from the Vicarage
The Watford FC official website Watford beat Manchester United 3-1 in the Premiership at Vicarage Road today. It is...
A Birmingham legend – Dennis Amiss
Dennis Amiss was my cricketing hero in the late 1960s and 1970s. A Warwickshire man through and through. Dad...