Just having a debate as a friend, and i think you may know the answer. Is Watford part of Greater London or Hertfordshire? Or Both? I know its random but thought you may know. Unlucky today, if yourselves and us (Hull City) can both go up i will be happy, so good luck for the rest of the season bar Tuesday.
We are in Hertfordshire only We seem to be trying hard NOT to go up - wouldn't it be kind of you to lose for us tomorrow as a sporting gesture
Hertfordshire, but I do like to think of us as a London club as I'm from London and I don't like people telling me I should support a club closer to where I live. Also, good luck to you too!
Like Arsenal/Spurs (nearest Wembley?) then you would be accused of being a "gloryhunter/armchair fan"
We're still in Hertfordshire. As far as the London papers are concerned they classify us as a London club when successfull and a Hertfordshire club when not.
A bit like Rolf Harris really - now that he has been arrested on sex charges, the media suddenly refer to him as Australian entertainer rather than plain old entertainer.
South West Herts. It's that goldarned M25 that makes people think it's London. Mind you, anyone know the true old Hertfordshire rural accent? I seem to recall it's more cockney than cockney! My missus moved from Suffolk to Cheshire in her teens and the locals thought she was a cockney.
City1904: Hertfordshire. Affiliated to the Hertfordshire FA. We are on the old Middlesex / London County Council border. South Oxhey (a large post-war estate... and as seen on The Choir two or three years ago) was built by the London County Council though now comes under 'Three Rivers' which bounds Watford to the north, west and south with Hertsmere to the east and St Albans to the north-east. Our catchment area should include part of northwest London: Harrow, Wembley, Uxbridge, Ruislip etc, maybe even further afield. Unfortunately the club have long had a fairly restrictive marketing policy and it is a rarity to find our shirts on sale outside Watford itself. We are largely, though net entirely this season, ignored by the London Evening Standard... London is a relatively untapped resource, transport links from the places mentioned are easy. Perhaps the Pozzo family will do something to address the situation (I think they will judging by the film made by Udinese TV) but when you have the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, QPR and Fulham all nearer to us than our historical rivals L*t*n geographically (West Ham [all but direct by train from Watford] and Spurs are only a couple of miles further) and football wise, you see it is a difficult battle for us.
In the past I htink we have entered London 5 a side competitions haven't we - this may help confuse issues. However facts are facts and Watford is in Hertfordshire pure and simple - and as Fez says our catchment area includes much of north west London
My grandfather, who lived all his life in a small village in West Herts, had a true rural Hertfordshire accent (along with the most of the rest of the villagers) and I can assure you GG that it was a million miles from cockney. It was more like an Oxfordshire or Wiltshire accent. There was however a German POW who also lived in the village and he did not have a rural Hertfordshire accent......
This is what an accent from the Herts/Bucks border sounds like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb7x4Y-7pOQ
Brilliant OFH, loved that. When I was growing up in 'emel, the real locals had a bit of an accent like that, whilst most had the norf Lundun accent of their parents and siblings, there were a few yocals about.
If people here say that Watford are part of London, I tell them that we're as much that as Jersey is part of Guernsey, which shuts them up. It doesn't help that all of the airports that have London, with the exception of London City, before their name are further away from London than us.
London - isn't that the rather dirty little place just south of Watford? Trying to associate yourself with that is as unfathomable as associating yourself with that other dirty little place just to the north, which also starts with an 'L'. Just sayin'
Thanks for putting me right, Vic. I'm wondering now if this idea got into my head from listening to some boatees, or maybe lockkeepers, on the Grand Union at Cassiobury. It's so long ago. I maybe also getting my wires crossed (having lived there a long time) with the north Kent and east Kent accent, which is more cockney than cockney.
