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The 2025/26 FA Cup starts this weekend. I thought that it could possibly be interesting if a thread starts with a game then follows the winner each round until we reach the final. I looked at the fixtures and couldn’t decide which game to choose so I have chosen two. Bury vs South Liverpool...

Wishing everyone a good Yuletide. Midwinter/summer solstice, celebration of Mithras's birthday (for those Roman soldiers amongst us) and Christian seasonal goodwill. May post Christmas and the New Year provide more victories for the Hornets. May the New Year also provide victories for each and...

A blank slate. Warning - there are unlikely to be any updates at the end of December and all January. I will be away with the family.

Getting prepared

Any suggestions welcome

I have heard that the club is going to make live games available on Hornet Hive but I can't find any details of this on the club website other than it is going to cost GBP10 a game. Does anyone know how this is going to work. Do I need to register somewhere and, if so, how I do it...

Isolation has allowed me to watch all the highlights on the official Watford FC site. (well not all the highlights. I don't look t the big defeats!) I have the following observations, some of which have surprised me: 1) We play well when Deeney is playing but not controlled by a defender. He...

In the past WFC played cricket in the close season against a local side. From memory GT was very keen on this fixture. Is this still played? Do we have 11 players that know the rules? Who would make a good left arm slow bowler?

Interesting article https://wildeastfootball.net/2018/12/watford-elton-john-xi-jinping/

In recent weeks a number of out players have been profiled in the national media with interviews. The one common factor that has struck me is how they have all struggled in their childhood/youth. A recent Times interview with Andre Gray has changed my opinion of him...

Here is the start of this season's table. Rather than overwrite each weeks' table I may just put a new one in with each result, if that is preferred. Let me know. I also thought about putting each promoted/relegated team separately but that would have removed the season by season comparison...

And yet again a new season comes around. I sometimes can't help wishing that I didn't care. Why am I bothered by what a group of people whom I have never met do on an increasingly metaphorical Saturday afternoon? Why do I wake up on Sunday morning wondering if I should look at the results...

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/teams/watford/11441871/how-watford-legends-money-is-spent-in-malawi Interesting documentary, if a little strange. Ross Jenkins has changed, somewhat and now sports a pony tail!

The following players' names have been submitted to the EPL as 'retained' by us. https://www.premierleague.com/news/698775 Watford Contracts Alvarado Hoyos, Jamie Alberto Amrabat, Noureddine Bachmann, Daniel Barrozo Rodrigues, Matheus Aias Becerra Maya, Juan Camillo Bradbury, Harvey Lee...

The first qualifying rounds of the cup start on Saturday with the Extra Preliminary round. Here are some of the fixtures that interested me (though, possibly no one else). Northwich Victoria v 1874 Northwich I was at the Drill Field in 1976 when the Vic beat us 3-2. What made it even more...

I have put together a chart of our results this season compared to the corresponding matches last season. As the season continues I will attempt to update.. I have linked the relegated teams with promoted teams

It has been noted in many places that Home Grown players command higher transfer fees than foreign players. This is because of simple supply and demand models. There are also other rules that distort the various markets involved in football. I'm sorry about that paragraph. I sound like an...

Troidini (pronounced Troy Deeney) is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies. http://www.swallowtails.net/troidini.htm Many of this tribe have yellow and black markings and are toxic to predators.