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....
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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...
How Russia trashed the Olympic movement
It is a farce. You train for years. You work. You sacrifice. You compete. You reach your goal of...
Muhammad Ali: the greatest
There are plenty of words elsewhere about this astonishing man. This picture says more than any words I can...
A luscious, post-coital rumble….football!
That moment! The Guardian’s Barnay Ronay is in glorious form in this wonderful commentary on Leicester’s Premiership winning party...
Watford’s semi-final report card
To say Watford were poor is being kind. Crystal Palace had pace, height, strength and desire. Watford were occasionally...