Watford FC 1-2 Manchester United - 15/09/2018

Certainly someone with footballing prowess & a dodgy memory.

 

I was hoping Alcacer was going to be unveiled.

 

I support watford because when I was very young some of the players gave me a signed poster (they were on a carnival float - it was a different world). Then I hassled my dad and he took me to see them play quite a few times (Blissett era).

I live in Devon have a 5 year old and havnt been to see them play in years but watch pretty much every game (the wonder of the Internet) , before we were in the prem I used to follow the games on the radio and shoutbox here.

I have tried to book tickets to see them play a few times , but it’s actually quite hard to get tickets if you aren’t a regular and don’t have a history , in fact wanted to come up to see a game in October , but have lost my fan id number , can’t log in and think all the games in October are reserved ticketing only (plus I’m being crap)

I absoloutly consider myself to be a fan, and often argue with my mates about how they are fake fans who only support Liverpool / Arsenal / ManU because they used to win stuff, but I support watford because I have a connection. I kind of find it offensive that anybody would consider me to not be a real fan - although agree I should make an effort to come up see the might orns at least a couple of times a year.

 

You need to write to the ticket office, I've forgotten the guys name (messenger?) - he is really helpful and I bet you could in advance book a couple of tickets for you and your son to see the game. it is the sort of thing they are good at. Someone on here will have the link for you.

 

Dave.Messenger@watfordfc.com - supporter liaison officer. He helped me find my fan id. Might well be able to help you with sorting out a ticket in October too.

 

If we win, even if we go top, I genuinely expect the media focus to be on the collapse of Man U and who will leave first Pogba or Mourinho, the win will be nothing to do with us good or bad it will be How Man U are failing to perform. However I wouldn’t care we would be 5 out of 5 and top.

I was listening to talksport early (I should really stop listening) and Durham and Goff where discussing spurs resting Harry Kane, he’s got to play at the weekend against Liverpool it’s a Massive match , especially after loosing to Watford (said with a kind of disbelief ). Main stream media can’t talk about anybody other than the top 6: it’s not a chip on our shoulder they just genuinely don’t believe that anybody else is worth the air time. We could win the league and most of the headlines would be about Liverpool and city throwing it away rather than us winning.

 

And that’s why I love this place thanks for the help

 

Anyone not born in Watford General will forever be a glory hunting, plastic out-of-towner.

This is a local club for local people

 

You are not a "proper" football fan if you don't spend 5 hours on social media after a match where your team wins, looking at opposition tweets/posts/vlogs/comments with a smug grin. You are not a true football fan if you don't say "fark MoTD, i'm not watching that sh*t" after a pathetic loss to a team you "should" be beating. If you don't go into work the next day boasting about your clubs win over the team your mate supports, you are not a proper fan.

If you care for a club where a result can determine whether you have a positive or a negative week, then, in my opinion, you are a true supporter of that team - whether you are in Norway or 2 minutes walk from the ground. You are not a real fan if you shrug off wins and losses as if they are meaningless.

 

Liked for correct use of "whom"

 

It’s easier writing in the Championship.

 

Which is exactly what happened to Leicester. The media, ‘pundits’ especially, refused to accept they had any chance of doing it right up to the last minute. After they won it (by TEN points I might add) there was a short period of “what a great story”, followed quickly by “of course Leicester only won because all the big boys messed up”. Now it is ignored as an insignificant blip in history because “it can never possibly happen again”.

 

I used to go to all the away matches when we were in the third and fourth tiers and when we were bumbling around mid-table in the 2nd tier.

I'd just turn up and buy a ticket on the gate at Barnsley, Colchester, Oxford and Plymouth.

Really strange, but now we're playing Liverpool, Man Utd and Arsenal I get turned away as the Watford allocation was sold out weeks ago, even though the stadium holds loads more people.

Anyone got any idea what's going on?

 

They’ll need to be a rota, the Champions League will attract a new breed of supporter, just what our new forum owner wants.

 

This is interesting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45158878

Looks like most football grounds / matches could easily take a few thousand more fans

 

I wouldn't worry, it's many many times ******* now than it was back then.

 

But they were a bunch of ****s who went bust and failed to pay any of the money they owed to any of their creditors and then reinvented themselves for a quid. Genuine fairy tale.

I never bought any of that **** about them.

 

Hmm, possibly - but there might be something else going on.

If it helps, I can pinpoint the exact game it started to get difficult to get a ticket.

1998/99 season was crazy. I went to the vast majority of away games, and for a lot of the season we were comfortably mid-table as our results were very hit and miss.

I comfortably managed to get tickets on the gate at every match, home and away. until we went on a blistering run and got into the play-off positions.

Barnsley away would just about seal the deal, but incredibly the place was swarming with hornets! Who knew so many lived in Barnsley!
I only managed to get in by buying a ticket off a lad who'd got turned away for being fall-over drunk.

That 2-2 draw was the last game I managed to get in with a ticket bought on the day.

I got turned away at the play-off semi and the final.

The following season I didn't manage to get any tickets at all. I gave up trying at Anfield.

 

....."whom".

 

'Shittier' or 'more shyte', you *******...

 

Unless it's Stilton with a glass of port, cheese is shyte IMHO...

 

You're not a true fan until you've sat in the home end at an away game and felt the utter pain when you can't celebrate a Watford goal.

 

Ah.. border country. I spent some of my youth in Friars, though i could walk home rather than a hazardous moped ride. First band i saw were Camel in 1979.. who just so happened returned to Friars a couple of nights back.

 

I did that at Anfield in '98. Very hard not to celebrate Mooney's goal.

 

"Sometimes it was good if we won but if we lost I wasn't feeling it as I would normally, when it ruins your week," said the striker"
TD is not a proper fan!

Source.. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45502363

 

I've lost my fan ID in the past, the club can look back at such things as buying something from the club shop and having it mailed to you even to previous addresses. There was an era where I found it incredibly hard to attend the Vic as I was away serving in the army. I managed to attend a couple of games a season but they were most likely away fixtures and there wasn't many if any away fixture ever sold out. I remember having to drive down to Watford and buy play off final tickets for the Cardiff final. For some reason they had to be purchased in person I'd just returned from Iraq and was on leave at my parents place in Cumbria. Got up early drove to the ticket office was certainly not the first there as I'd got stuck in traffic, I joined a que going through the rookery but had entered the ground via the north side of the now Graham Taylor stand, I presume the que may of gone all the way back there to start. I get to the front to get the tickets and they ask for that fan ID think it was the third address I gave them that worked. If you don't fancy your chances this way you can always reach out to people on here or the club hold tickets back for fans travelling from afar

 

I celebrated mate, was in the Eland road end when Glen Hodges scored the winner, was only a young lad with my grandad so they couldn't really give us a kick in, got covered in spit and other bodily fluids. Was all worth it in the end

 

Border country indeed!

The next door neighbours were half in Bucks & half in Herts.

I started at Friars around 77 & managed to catch the majority of the punk/new wave bands, many of whom started tours there before hitting London.

Interesting you mention Camel. I was happily listening to Prog stuff alongside punk.

I remember buying Never Mind The ******** & Aqualung at the same time.

Did you see the Bowie tribute recently put up outside Friars?

Friars was the first real Ziggy concert & Aylesbury is the market square mentioned in 5 Years.

So I didn’t squander all my youth at the Vic. I squandered some in Aylesbury.

 

Following Watford these days is like a real life version of Football Manager. If we lose a game, we can restore from the previous save and play again until we win. This is the only way you can end up with five wins on the bounce...until now.

I keep pinching myself this is now Watford's reality. Was it really only just over 6 years ago when BBB was taking the club into administration?? We were heading in a downward trajectory and it all looked hopeless. We were everyone's relegation favourites pre-season (ok maybe things haven't changed quite that much after all), but we were in a pretty bad shape on and off the pitch.

If someone said to me, just before we got wind of the Pozzo's takeover, that in 6 year's time Watford would be an established Premier League club starting their 4th straight season in the top flight and were going to win the first 5 matches, including beating Spurs, then no one could believe it, not even a remote chance of that happening......but there you go, it has happened. 6 years from now, then where will we be? An interesting thought.

We go into Saturday's match as a club with a 100% record, sitting third with twice as many points as our opponents Manchester United. Ok, we're still not the favourites to win, but there is a real expectation that this could be another memorable victory. Probably the worst thing you can give a supporter is hope, but it's another reality and is another measure where you can see how far the club has come.

It's mind boggling really.

 

BBC saying he might. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45502131

I think it's a nonsense, why have the concussion rule at all? I know from my RFU coaching that a head injury/concussion in rugby is a minimum of 19 days before being allowed to return for an adult, no matter who you are or who you play for. The rules apply to amateurs and professionals.

 

Wtf is an enhanced care setting anyway?

 

Looking forward to this one.

ST holder but this is my second trip back to the holy land since relocating to somewhere east of the Peak District!

They all talk weird up here and eat some weird food. What the hell is a cob?

The 5 hour round trip was definitely worth it for the Spurs game. Here's hoping for a similar return from this one - at least I'm staying over this time so can consume plenty of beverages!

COYH

 

Horace, welcome!

Hopefully, the forum can keep you in touch with normal vowel sounds & regular cuisine (esp cheese).

Btw, can you see your name on the following list: Abdi, Pudil, Forestieri?

 

Clubs should be required to publish both figures - number of seats sold and number of people who actually turned up