I would just like to pay tribute to my father in law who died this afternoon. He was a lifelong Watford supporter, home and away, first seeing them 85 years ago. I met my wife when she was 14, if I wanted the girl I had to change my support from Spurs to Watford, which I duly did, over 50 years ago. He was a lifelong socialist although he bought the Daily Mail every day, mainly for the crossword!! R.I.P. Mr John Stewart.
Sad news when Watford fans come to the end. He must have had a very strong constitution to have supported the club for so long SH.
His dad was a keen supporter as well. I managed to take him to the Vic a couple of years ago to show him the revamped stadium. Pity my grandsons are Spurs and Liverpool, I blame my son in laws!!
All my family follow me (and my ex wife ) are watford fans even a son-in-law and his two sons that live in the USA .They have only been to the Vic once 13 years ago we beat derby . My 3 kids and 4 of my 6 UK grand kids (The other 2 dont know much about football there dad was a Chelsea sth)
horrible world we live in,and it can only get worse ..i fear for new generations i'd totally understand if my kids decide not to have children of their own.
it's getting worse. These people have no regard for life, there is no fear of death and until there is, the world is more and more unsafe.
I've spent over 70 years trying to understand the world I live in and days like today make me feel I've made no progress at all.
I've shed so many tears today, I've had to turn the telly off. I'm not sure what I feel the most, sadness, despair or anger!
I wouldn't be surprised if those sentiments were being expressed right now in Syria and The Yemen - and the UK government have played a big part in the killings in both. As a nation, we simply don't have the right to deplore/condemn what happens within our shores when we are responsible for returning a government that commits far worse elsewhere. Violence has never been the answer to anything and never will be. There needs to be a way of getting all parties involved to sit down and talk - if that isn't done then violence will simply continue, and escalate to the point of no return.
OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed. This horrible day has worn me out Night all Night H Let me tell you that I love you all and thank you for your brilliant friendship. I tell you this because we never know when we will draw our last breath and it would be remiss of me not to let you all know!
Despair of the current state of events is understandable, but I don't believe we should give up. After all those years of the troubles in N. Ireland that spread to the mainland, people didn't give up, and peace returned twenty years ago. Who in the early days of talks could have imagined Martin Mcguinness and Ian Paisley becoming friends and working for the common good? Both men had to compromise on their own beliefs, and take the parties and public with them, something that was achieved. Enda Kenny the Irish taoiseach has been instrumental in making sure that the peace continues, but is warning that while the North has no government, and the UK government is in a mess over Brexit, there is a ripe opportunity for those who never accepted the peace to start their nonsense again. Blaming people for events in the past is natural, but it will not change what happened. Today and tomorrow are far more important, and we should try to find ways of creating dialogue, not cutting ourselves off and saying we don't need people that think differently.
Morning all from a dry Jersey. On my way home from a Jersey Softball Association committee meeting, I saw a former colleague who supports WBA and he questioned me about Mazzarri and the answer I gave was pretty much what Duxbury had said, even though I didn't know about that at the time. I accepted his comment about the aggregate of our 2 matches being 4-2 to them, but he went too far when he said that we were lucky to beat them at the Vic. Funny how he started walking away from me after saying that, so all I did was call towards him "What do you mean by us being lucky to beat you when we won 2-0 with 10 men?".