Watford Fc 1-0 Luton Town - 26/09/2020

As noted, at least three groups on here: bedwetters, happy clappers, and head wobblers.

 

Also happy wetters, bed wobblers and head clappers.

 

Anyone else finding themselves not really caring about this season so far? This is a game I should be up for, but I just feel very apathetic about it. Didn't think i'd miss going as much if I still got to watch us, but just feel quite apathetic about the whole season so far.

 

Why is the Ivic pre-match video on the club site 'private'?
https://www.watfordfc.com/video/int...-for-this-game-ivic-previews-luton-match#play

 

I suspect the person responsible for managing media messed up and forgot to switch the permissions on the video when posting the update.

 

There is zero chance that Capoue plays. He will be moving imminently, or they wouldn't have come out and said he'd requested a transfer. I expected him to be gone by the weekend, to be quite honest.

 

Glenn Murray to score the winner and go down in folklore alongside Devon White and Dominic Foley as a completely cack cult hero.

 

A charitable donation will be made in your name if this comes to pass.

 

Age Concern?

 

I feel the same about Deeney and would be pleased if he started tomorrow. I’m disgusted by my dirty hypocrisy.

 

Burnsy's call, but seems appropriate.

 

I can't believe I used the word 'fit.'

 

If any of the images doing the rounds are accurate, despite a knee injury he certainly hasn't missed leg day.

Either that or all the weight/*insert foodstuff here* has gone to his Quads/Hammys!

 

Been a looooong time since I've seen a team sheet and been excited lol

 

Anyone able to copy and paste this article here (behind a paywall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...rivalry-visceral-unpleasant-cant-help-resent/

 

I can't, but based on the claim of that being Darren Ward in the pic, it seems unlikely to be worth it.

 

And the cheese in cheese strings?

 

Actually, having said that, if you can stand the poor formating, if you look at the source code for that page... you get this -

<p>In Watford, before Saturday’s Championship fixture with Luton Town, they are taking no chances. Outside Vicarage Road the statue of Graham Taylor has temporarily been boarded up. Meanwhile the local police, having insisted on a 12.30pm kick-off, to reduce pre-match drinking time, have been visiting local pubs to advise landlords on the need to be alert.</p>
<p>“We will have a high-visibility police presence at train stations and in the city centre to make sure the match goes ahead peacefully,” says Matt Nicholls, Hertfordshire Constabulary’s Chief Superintendent. “Anyone who comes into Hertfordshire to cause criminal damage, violence or anti-social behaviour can expect to be arrested.” </p>
<p>And all this for a match, thanks to pandemic restrictions, to be played behind closed doors. It is probably as well for police overtime bills, too, that, thanks to the widely differing fortunes of the two clubs, this will mark the first time the M1 derby has been played for 14 seasons.</p>
<p>“Had supporters been there, this would have been most anticipated derby ever,” says Kevin Harper of the Luton Town Supporters Trust. “From the moment I knew they were relegated and we were staying in the Championship it was absolutely the fixture I was waiting for. It’s such a shame fans won’t be there. And it’s not even on TV, so we’ll all be watching on streaming. Even so, this is going to be a massive day for us.”</p>
<p>Since the first meeting in 1885 when Watford Rovers hosted Luton in a friendly at Vicarage Road, the rivalry has simmered. </p>
<p>“There are regular newspaper accounts of fisticuffs on the pitch in Luton games before the turn of the century,” says Matt Rowson, author of the Watford blog BHaPPY. “That died down over the years as the clubs went their separate ways. In fact, if you speak to older Watford fans in the Sixties we had a bigger rivalry with QPR. But that all changed in the Eighties.” It was then that a competitive element was added to the 18-mile geographical proximity. Under the progressive stewardship of Graham Taylor and David Pleat respectively, the two sides seemed to be constantly vying for promotion.</p>
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<p>“My favourite ever match was away against them on Boxing Day in 1979 when Kirk Stevens won it with a thunderbolt in the last minute,” recalls Nick Owen, the television presenter and Luton stalwart. “There was an astonishing FA Cup tie in 1984, two thrillers, we drew at home 2-2, then lost the replay lost 4-3. When it went to extra time my heart sank, as I was presenting breakfast television at the time, and had to be up at silly o’clock.”</p>
<p>But for all the competitive intensity — in 1981 the two clubs finished first and second in the race for promotion to the top flight — Taylor and Pleat were close friends and worked assiduously to detoxify the rivalry. Indeed, the week before Luton’s historic win at Manchester City in 1983 that saw Pleat dad dancing across the Maine Road pitch, he took a full-strength team to Vicarage Road for a testimonial. Such friendly accommodation ended, however, as the two managers moved on. In the Nineties, the clubs met frequently in the second tier and the encounters grew ever more abrasive.</p>
<p>“Watford is a fairly sleepy, family club; Graham Taylor painted it like that,” says Rowson. “That changes completely when Luton are in town. Then it is visceral, unpleasant. It only happens when Luton are here and you can’t help but resent them for it.” For many the low point was a League Cup tie in 2002. The local police were caught off guard and the streets around Vicarage Road were pock-marked with antagonism. </p>
<p>“Rumour had it celebrity hooligans came from London to join in,” recalls Rowson. “It was horrific, really violent and unpleasant.” That night, 29 fans were charged with disorder. And in 2006, the last meeting between the clubs, a chastened Hertfordshire Constabulary were out in force. Nonetheless Ben Foster, at the time on loan from Manchester United, and the only player from either side playing then who is still around, recalls an unusually abrasive encounter.</p>
<p>“The atmosphere was a bit naughty to be honest,&quot; he told the <em>Watford Observer</em> this week. &quot;It was good. I do remember enjoying it because when I first signed for Watford, I didn't know it was such a big rivalry with Luton. Even now, in the build up to Saturday, I'm getting messages on Twitter and Instagram saying: 'Fozzy come on you're the only one that's played in it, please get them up for this game'.”</p>
<p>The two clubs have had very different trajectories since that encounter. Watford, thanks to investment from the Pozzo family, have been largely in the Premier League, while Luton, hamstrung with administrative incompetence, have sunk as low as the Conference. It means the two sets of supporters will approach the reinstated fixture with different mindsets. For Watford it is a signal of the chastening new circumstances since relegation last season.</p>
<p>“There was a lot of triumphalism and gloating as they sank,” says Rowson. “But as time has gone on, there’s a generation of Watford supporters who have never seen them play Luton. They’re told by dads that Luton are the enemy, but it’s not the same thing. In fact I don’t remember hearing a single song about Luton in the last five years.” For Luton fans, though, the very fact the fixture is back is a mark of how far their club has recovered.</p>
<p>“It may mean more to Luton, because we’ve been through such a torrid time,” says Owen. “We were in the Conference when they were in Premier League, five divisions below them; that gap with your historic rivals is hard to take. Six years ago we were playing Tamworth and Ebbsfleet. Now we’re playing them. That is incredible.”</p>
<p>Though, whatever the different approaches, it would be unwise to suggest the antagonism is not entirely mutual.</p>
<p>“It’s a horrible rivalry, we absolutely loathe each other,” says lifelong Watford fan Jonathan Brick. “It’s so bad, I’d never wear a Watford shirt in Luton town centre. But then again why would I ever go to Luton town centre?”</p>
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I’m glad we’ve become their cup final.

I despise the fact we’ve given them the chance to play in it.

 

And still nobody has pointed it out?

 

Seems that way! Would take them about 30 seconds to fix, if that, so I can only presume they haven't been made aware.

 

No. I ******* hate those ****s.

There's a reason the statue's been boarded up and the game moved to lunchtime. It's because the scum are ****s.

There's been loads of bad news this year personally and nationally. But if we beat those ******* it'll go down as a good year.

 

Huge game tomorrow. Hopefully Sarr & Deeney start. People knocking Troy but I'd much rather him than Murray.

Foster
Ngakia Cathcart Kabasele Wilmot
Cleverley Chalobah
Sarr Quina Pedro
Deeney

 

Its this anyway isnt it? So its freely there on youtube

 

No idea, since we can't watch the version in the site to compare.

Chances are it's identical though, yes.

 

Watford question just shown on Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire

 

No idea how much effort that took.

It was worth it.

 

He even used the correct Copperplate Gothic font. 10/10

 

So I've just had a gander on their forums and there's a conversation going about some of the Luton hardmen renting an airbnb in Watford tomorrow for a trip to the Harry Potter studios in Elstree before the game