Category: Watford
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Barcelona Begins To Look Like The Real Deal Again
For 90 minutes at the weekend, all of us went back in time a couple of years, to a period when one football team so eclipsed all others that they were being considered not just the best side on the planet at that moment but one of…
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A Sport That Ignores What It Doesn’t Like
I love football, but there’s something about the game that’s pretty hard to deny. Football, above and beyond any other sport, is incredibly good at ignoring problems. Its leaders are incredibly good at wishing they’d go away. I’m writing a lengthy piece for this site on the continuing trials Scottish football is enduring as the…
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EPL Matchday 10: One Bore Draw And Many Harry Returns
Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea took another battering, on and off the pitch, over the last few days as this weekend’s Premier League matches saw them defeated, again, this time to West Ham. They followed that up with a penalty kicks defeat at Stoke, in the League Cup, although like most of the other top clubs that’s…
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EPL Matchday 7 Roundup: Sanchez Hits Hat-Trick In A Big Weekend
Kane and Rooney finally scored. Sanchez hit a hat-trick and Newcastle blew it … again. It was a big weekend for in the EPL, with wins for Manchester United, Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Stoke, Southampton and, of course, Liverpool and Spurs. In the latter match, Harry Kane ended weeks of fevered speculation about whether or not…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Newcastle 1-2 Watford
Steve McClaren said, after this game, that trying to turn around Newcastle’s shocking form was “a little bit like a car crash.” He isn’t kidding. Right now it resembles a motorway pile-up, and one with a high likelihood of casualties. They flirted with relegation last season, and but for Sunderland also dropping three points and…
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On this day (1st June): Brendan Rogers joins Liverpool
View image | gettyimages.com On this day in 2012, Brendan Rogers became the youngest man to be appointed manager of Liverpool football club since Graeme Souness. Rogers joined after a successful period at Swansea City where he took them to 11th in the Premier League. His previous clubs included Reading, Watford and a spell as…
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Watford interest in Italian midfielder Luca Cigarini
View image | gettyimages.com Premier League new boys Watford are reportedly wanting the signature of Atalanta’s 28-year-old midfielder Luca Cigarini. Reports say that Watford are one of a number of clubs chasing the former Italy under 21, who had made 20 appearances for them. Cigarini has made 33 appearances this season for Atlanta, and has successfully…
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Watford keen to sign Blackburn Rovers striker Gestede
View image | gettyimages.com Watford are ready to make their first major transfer since winning promotion to the Premier League as they close in on the £5 million signing of Blackburn striker Rudy Gestede, according to Daily Mail. The 26-year-old striker has netted an impressive 20 goals for Championship side Blackburn this season and has…
