C&A alive and kicking in Vigo, Spain.., also Gibralter I think..still cr@p quality kinda a posh Primark..which is quite easy to achieve from when the Missus has dragged me there screaming.
Yes, one of their proudest boasts was that no non-Aryan had ever been employed by the company, until the dreadful political correctness movement came along and ruined everything. They didn't have a female manager until around 2000 either I believe.
Ederson has been named in Manchester City's squad for their opening Champions League group game against Feyenoord tonight. I guess he may be available to play against us on Saturday.
Nah mate. Richest family in Holland, which is just down the road from Jaywick sands. Loads of Nazi war criminals hiding out in those lavish beach huts. Just more BNP, less turd reich.
Looking forward to this one. Nice to have some optimism about the club and what we are doing after a lifeless year under Walter. Excited to see how we match up.
Man City going with a full strength team against Feyenoord tonight. Good news for us if they pick up a couple knocks/injuries. Hopefully someone has told Berghuis to do a Britos on G.Jesus, De Bruyne and Aguero. Obviously we need a lenient ref in order for him to take out all 3 but here's hoping. MAN CITY TEAM NEWS Team to play Feyenoord: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Mendy, Otamendi, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, David Silva (c), Fernandinho, Aguero, Jesus
Last game against City was weird. The applause for Auguero (and him looking baffled), the keepers on the bench, and the 'off' for WM ... looking forward to this to see how far we've come from that odd day.
City already winning. Worst defending on the line I think I've ever seen. So much for a hard night for them.
Yeah which is about 600 of 'em, judging by their average away support at the Vic when we used to play them when they were shyte. Don't be fooled by this "always been a fan, me" nonsense they come out with. Remember when we got to the cup final and all those sudden hidden Hornets who you'd never suspected had the slightest interest in football and far less Watford, suddenly appeared looking for any spare tickets? Well that's the loyal fan base of Manchester Mercantile City LLP in the 21st century. I used to have a grudging respect for their fans and their following of a proper nitty-gritty football team, experiencing the ups and downs of football's rocky path, rather than the easy glory-hunting selection of the diabolical red devils down the road. However all that has long since been blown away into the dust of history. These days, they're a sad and lamentable parody of a club. As bad as, or perhaps even worse than, even United. Every last vestige of what used to be at Maine Road, every last piece of authenticity and credibility, has long since been ripped away and carelessly tossed into the bin in the interests of brash and ostentatious commercialisation. Now they are just a little trotting international show horse for some dodgy oil sheikh. Where there used to be respect for Man City, now there is only pity for any real genuine fans of theirs who still remain and contempt for the legions of 'soccer fans' and 'always been a Manc me, even though I never mentioned it....' hucksters and come-lately frauds that make up the vast bulk of their fanbase these days. I have one simple question for any 'genuine' Man City fan who might happen to stumble across this post. Why have you not had the balls to start up a football team again (like FC United) when your team got identified, captured and had its identity absolutely and permanently erased and eliminated?
Bring it on. Let's see what the most talented Watford team we have ever had* can do. Silva and me have always preferred a straight fight for the premiership title to all this sneaking around playing relegation fodder like muff, Southampton and Liverpool.
I think people jumping on the bandwagon of a newly successful team like City or previously Chelsea is rather different than your Watford Cup Final analogy. I rather like it when we get to a big game and everyone who has ever had a connection with the Hornets comes back from overseas or makes the effort to get a ticket to 'be there' so that we have 40,000 in the stadium. Otherwise we'd be stuck with our 12,000 season ticket fan base or whatever it is.
So, what are you telling us? More successful teams get bigger crowds? You don't say. What are the 'authenticity' and 'credibility' and how do they lose them by spending more money and being more successful? Watford have become more commercial and better run and, as a result, more successful. At what point on their success-curve will you stop supporting them and can you let us know so somebody else can have your ticket?
According to them "we must be shitting ourselves". Always quite amusing when a little poxy tinpot side gets a good couple of games together and thinks they're brilliant. Not a single one of their players gets into our starting XI Keeper? Gomes. Ederson is clearly a diving canut after his antics last Saturday, although he was very committed to the dive, forcing Guedioura to bring on Bravo. Bravo. Defence? Kyle Walker for £50M? Femenia on a free, and he's played for both Barca AND Real Madrid, not like their boss who's clearly boring and only played for Barca. Kompanys fitness record would fit into our squad mentality though. Midfield. Doucoure and Chalobah **** all over every midfield in the world. No contest. Attack. Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, Ricky Richarlison. And the guy who tweeted about that thing one time. And the guy who kicked a police officer in the head once. And the other guy who looks like he could do it at any moment. No contest. 5-0 by half time to the 'Orns.
I will stop supporting them when they move away from the Vic to some corporate bowl and lose everything that makes them Watford except the name and the colours. When they get stripped of their identity and are not the same club I supported from the Rookery terraces. Look, we knew there would be a price to pay when we went in the Prem. There would be a down side. The bigger crowds you talk about, crowds of tourists with only the vaguest idea of what the club is or where it has come from, suck away authenticity and credibility. There has been some of that, but for the most part we have ridden it well so far. We have not become the awful millionaire's marionette that Man City are these days. I'm very, very glad we have rich owners who know football, but I'm glad they're not rich like Man City rich. I would genuinely and sincerely hate to have my club jiggered in the way theirs has been.
I bet that if City wanted Chalobah the bidding would have started at £25m Sent from my G8141 using Tapatalk
I like how the fact they are not rediculously wealthy has kept us "honest" as a football club. Scrimping for deals and carving out gems with genuinely good wheeling and dealing to actually make a profit rather than bankrolling the next 20 players from a pot of unlimited wealth just feels like we are still in some way morally honorable as a club. The likes of us, Burnley, maybe even Lesta who aren't throwing around rediculous money at least in some way helps to keep this league marginally honest.
"This could be the hardest game of the season so far, but having read the Watford forum I hope we smash them. Absolute ****s of the highest, highest order. embarrassing levels of bitterness." found my new signature "Is the Watford forum a pisstake? Not sure why there is hatred for us from them. I quite like them and hope they do well. Think it will be a tough game for us so soon after last night." Think they might be catching on to us. Wont make the Manchester local paper sadly this week Also I think Clive got called a Cockney Wide Boy - tell us it aint true Clive
"We cannot afford to lose this game and allow Watford to go above us in the table." Further proof , we've been rumbled, they are even joining in now.
