We’re used to this by now, but thankfully it’s really died out in the last 20 years watching the Albion and now isn’t even funny... couple of West Ham tried it Sat and promptly got arrested... best insult I’ve heard to us was Hull fans ‘you’re so southern, you’re practically French!’
Think mostly they take it in fun. When we played them at our place a group of their fans where walking along Vicarage Road singing, He's one of our own, Elton John he's one of our own.
West Ham's song to their own Bobby Zamora - sung during one of his frequent lean spells to the tune of That's Amore: "When the ball hits the head of the bloke in row z, that's Zamora"
Happy memories from the Brighton stadium. In that game even the mound of sand used for goal kicks was in our favour . Can’t see beyond a 2-0 win for us here . I shall be sporting a frilly pair of dusky pink French knickers for this that will remain resolutely dry for the full 90 mins .
Yes, that was the one sung for him the vast majority of the time. I just also remember a "That's Amore" style song about a ball in the sky or sometimes in your eye, and I associate it with him for some reason. Might simply be my memory short circuiting.
In all seriousness I would dearly love that to be the case, would give our survival hopes a big boost. For me the best and most complete away performance in the top flight during the Pozzo era after Wolves last season (missed Cardiff from the same season and Arsenal from 2016/17) was the 2-0 at Southampton in 2017/18, they barely had a sniff. I'm not expecting a performance as good as that on Saturday, but something close to it would be very encouraging and something to bring into the very tough game at Old Trafford a fortnight later. The adage "winning breeds confidence" only really holds true if either you have the quality to take advantage (as we did following the lucky Tranmere win in 1998/99), or you win convincingly to begin with (like when we beat Man Utd 2-0), or both. People were worried that Villa's slightly fortunate last-gasp wins over us and Leicester in the League Cup would give them the confidence to go on a winning run, but their loss at relegation rivals Bournemouth suggests that's not going to happen. Anything less than the kind of win I described above and I won't be that confident of staying up and my hopes will be pinned on us getting one or two surprise results that this season has seen its fair share of.
The great thing about Saturday is that if we lose, we can all stop caring knowing that we're pretty much relegated. We can pack up the forum for the Spring and Summer, Season Ticket holders can release their seats, the away trippers can have their Saturday's back and do coke in their local instead, Children (and grown ups alike) can watch Liverpool from the comfort of their own home and not have their schoolmates bully them on a Monday morning and we can all have a well deserved break from supporting these bunch of losers. Brighton 0-7 Watford
They've all just been told that the club won't be able to afford to keep them on if we got relegated.
Yes, might as well start a round of werewolf. It will be great to start watching MoTD again and be able to enjoy the upsets. Have rarely watched this year as usually involves 1/ us losing, 2/ liverpool winning, and 3/ one or two upsets where relegation rivals pick up useful and unexpected points.
Even better - what do they call it now? Used to be "the Championship" hosted by Manish (sp?). I am not sure what it is nowadays or what channel it's on. Dave I think. Still better than Jug ears and Shearer masturbating over Leicester and Liverpool each week. I want us to stay up, but if we do go down, at least we are free of getting slapped by Citee again.
EFL on Quest presented by Colin Murray with various guests like Dean Ashton, Ian Holloway and ex Luton player Sam Parkin (who I think was linked to us ?!)
I'm surprised no one's gone yet with something along the lines of (to the tune of "sing when you're winning"): "Sunk in a century, You'll all be sunk in a century, You'll all be sunk in a ceeentury, You'll all be sunk in a century".
I'm not sure why so many on here are getting so massively hung up on Sarr. Before the Everton game I was similarly downbeat about our prospects of winning in part due to Sarr's absence, as I wondered how we might score without his threat. However, in the end we still managed to go 2-0 up without him! Sarr's absence wasn't the main cause of Cathcart having an absolute nightmare and us not being able to hang on to a two goal lead.
Very true. Pereya who I had personally given up on has found his shooting boots. He usually plays alright against Brighton. Hopefully he can produce his two goal display from last season. Would suit Sarr's pace though. Brighton seem to play very narrow, so a decent ball to our wide men automatically leaves them one on one with the fullbacks. Plus they seem to push their fullbacks quite high, simular to Javi. Leaving bags of space to attack.
Because he's the best player Watford have ever had, according to some posters on another thread. A judgement which I find quite extraordinary. After all, he's been decent in what, five or six matches? The same could be said of Nordin Wooter.
All this talk about him, but do we have any confirmed news on Sarr? I don’t think he is the messiah, but he does improve our chances.
