I reckon Vic's batty anyway! 
Nice easy one now, who is the youngest top flight player to score a hat trick?
Nice easy one now, who is the youngest top flight player to score a hat trick?
I reckon Vic's batty anyway!![]()
My other name is Norah.........
Nice easy one now, who is the youngest top flight player to score a hat trick?
MIchael Owen.
Bump!
Sorry Barry, I missed your correct answer, Michael Owen it is!
Could be a long wait - I seem to remember Barry saying he was off to IoM for a wedding...
Do you want to take his turn BB?
Not 100% sure, but there was a song on the Honky Chateau album called Hercules and there have been suggestions that it came from that. The first verse even mentions Watford.
Ooh I got a busted wing and a hornet sting
Like an out of tune guitar
Ooh she got Hercules on her side
And Diana in her eyes
Very good - over to you...Hurcules was the name of the horse in Steptoe and Son. In true SEJ style, that's where he got it from. The song came later.
Anyway, back to trying to answer BB's question...I remember learning about this as some background from when I studied Gulliver's Travels for my A Level. I think this is Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burden to their Parents or Country and for making them Beneficial to the Public', commonly shortened to 'A Modest Proposal'.
In short, the 'proposal' was that impoverished parents could ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.
Cheers BB.Very good - over to you...
Cheers BB.
who, on the 9 December 1916, became oldest player to have turned out for Watford in a competitive first-team match, how old was he and why was he playing?

Spot on BB, over to you.I thought that ofh would have answered this by now...
I think that you're referring to Fred Nidd, was 47 when he stood in for Skilly Williams - who joined the army the day before the match.
They all have a celibate old man in charge
They are the only countries in the world that have not been invaded by the British.
Makes you think, doesn't it - approx nine tenths of the world has been invaded by the British - although I'd prefer to say English