I’m sorry to disappoint. I can find little both in life since my bereavement and in our football under Gracia to be positive about and so I post as I feel. I nailed my colours to the mask on the day he was appointed. My gut feeling was that it wasn’t the right appointment. I sincerely hope to be proved wrong and we soon return to winning ways. Positive or negative, happy or sad, at least I hope people know where they are with me and my opinions. I try not to just blow with the wind or insult people who don’t agree with me. It’s really nice to have you back here posting more, by the way. Thought we’d lost you on you and it was only Twitter we could read your always very spot on opinions. I’m pleased.
And it’s great to hear more from you, Malts. Btw, I’m about to board the District Line. Looking unusually uncrowded but there may be some contact in aisle.
Update. No seats free but only 6 of us standing in the vicinity. For contact, I’ll definitely have to move towards the other passenger. Think of me as Zaha & the woman with the smart backpack thing as Mariappa. I could do it but my inevitably necessary excuse of re-enacting a key Hornets incident may be difficult to carry off. Mind you, Wilfred always does. More to follow.
Nothing doing eastbound, so I’ve switched to west. This one would confound a brains trust of Zaha, Alli & Sterling. Excess seats so my only chance, I reckon, is to loiter near the door, as if I’m slightly confused by the whole experience. If there’s a decent onboarding surge at Acton Town, I’ll stubbornly hold my ground. Contact will be inevitable. As Phil Thompson would say, clear contact in the aisle, the conductor had no option but to give a pen.
Acton Town not all I’d hoped for. One single boarder, a petite older woman. Not lunging material at all. Also, I’m not helped by my crepe soles. Both fashionable & super high grip. They could ascend Merson’s glass mountain with ease.
I can’t imagine much happening at Osterley. It has the feel of a place between other places. Hopes now pinned on some Hounslow action. Confident that it could all get a bit tasty & remember we have the Hounslow triple header: East, Central & West. A shove is likely to be the least of it. Oo you looking at? and all the rest.
Hounslow Central! I can see the Treaty Centre which makes the Harlequin look like South Molton Street.
Hounslow bovver free! I did actually leave my leg hanging across the aisle, way across the invisible halfway line. A super polite Indian chap eased round, apologising as he went. The carriage is a picture of bourgeois gentility. Clearly the standard of the local finishing schools is higher than I thought.
Well, I reached T5 without any risk whatsoever to my verticality. A slight bump at the tube barrier but nothing my sea legs couldn’t withstand. A definite lurch on the mini train to the satellite terminal but not a single person in the carriage fell prostrate. Conclusion. Football is a contact sport but so is life. Being over 2 years old, I managed to make a not inconsequential tube journey of about 15 stops, including a change, whilst remaining erect (Matron). Wilfred Zaha is half my age & is an elite, physically honed athlete. Whilst my live experiment was not an exact replica of his experience at The Vic, I believe it was sufficiently scientifically robust to demonstrate that Zaha is a diver. Any peer group review most welcome. Btw, Javi if you are on here genuinely trying to listen to the fanbase, please remember that with WFC, you have to buy into the whole pack.
If the players do come on here to listen to the fans, do you think they have favourite/unfavourite posters? Will these posters be discussed at training? Will these posters feature in obscene graffiti in the gents at the training ground? Any illumination from, say, YK, who always seems pretty itk, or indeed anyone, most welcome.
But Kiko was one of the players who had had an attack of the sh*ts during the week was he not? I'd hazard a guess at his anus.
No, but I’m glad you made me look up the meaning of the word “Frottage”. I’m a little more complete now.
Just discovered that Gracia has presided over the longest run without an away goal in Watford’s entire history, 120 days. Well done Javi on achieving this presidious record breaking milestone after only 4 months in charge.
Just checked into Caesars Palace. SEJ is in town! Curiously, he’s playing Tues & Wed but not Mon. Insufficient recovery time after what could be a harrowing night for the Hornets?
I wouldn't have said time was a great measure of this, particularly in the PL era where there can sometimes be 5 weeks between home or away fixtures. How many games have we played in that period?
I heard you the first time. Since that wonderful Gray consolation at City, we've gone 7 games without scoring a goal, which apparently is the longest run of games and days without scoring an away goal in our history. This is a bit of a surprise to me, as I know we've been diabolical in the past several times. Had Gray not scored that consolation, the run would have stretched even further, as the result before that was a 0-1 at Brighton. Leicester 0-2, Southampton 0-1, Stoke City 0-0, West Ham 0-2, Arsenal 0-3, Liverpool 0-5, Huddersfield 0-1. Maybe Malts can answer this one, but we might be approaching a record number of blanks in a season too? Here's a list of all the games in which we've not scored this season: Brighton (h ) 0-0 Man City (h ) 0-6 Stoke (h ) 0-1 Burnley (a ) 0-1 Brighton (a) 0-1 Leicester (a) 0-2 Southampton (a) 0-1 FAC Stoke (a) 0-0 West Ham (a) 0-2 Arsenal (a) 0-3 Liverpool (a) 0-5 Huddersfield (a) 0-1 That's 12 games. 11 from 35 in the league. However, we are joint 8th in the scoring charts, so it's quite an anomaly.
Whichever way it's looked at it's a pathetic record. The second one you mention doesn't strike me as particularly abnormal though.
The only thing to note is, if you take away the 11 games where we've not scored, the other 24 matches have netted us 42 goals!!.....which is impressive. It's all or nothing with us.
19 games with no goals in the Boothroyd Premier League season, 18 of them in the league. This season has been great in comparison!
We'll end with 13 or 14 blanks, which is just a little short. Not a bad effort though. From memory, the season when we got relegated under Bassett was also bad for scoring goals.
Weird thing about this is that we almost never hand out smashings. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a match were we scored 4 apart from, ludicrously, against Chelsea, and again, off the top of my head, can't think of one where we scored 3 this season (probably/might well have happened, but I'm being anecdotal).
Cheers. I've checked, and we've only actually scored 3 goals twice in the league this season: Newcastle, as you say, and Liverpool, on the first day of the season, which of course doesn't count as a smashing, because we didn't even win. Add to that the aforementioned Chelsea match with 4, and that's it. The sum total.
