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Yesterday a friend of 40 odd years passed away. Which seems a very strange first line in a thread about positive comments only.
Richard was a Watford fan. He grew up in Northwood and was a Watford fan when I first met him in 1983 so in all likelihood he’d been supporting them as long as I’ve supported the Bees. But for geography I might have been a Watford fan too, but Griffin Park was 3 miles closer when I decided I wanted to support my local team and not follow Charlie George around from one club to another…
Funnily enough my first ever Brentford game was the thrilling 3-3 draw against Watford in 1979. This was the beginning of Watford’s greatest era under a dedicated owner, a superb, and often under-appreciated, manager and some generational players. At the time I could only imagine how he felt, watching the club he supported as a kid rising up through the divisions, getting to the FA Cup final and playing in Europe. I was so jealous. It also didn’t help that his Minnesota Vikings were doing a lot better than my Bengals. Of course those glory days didn’t last, and apart from a couple of occasions when they have got back into the top flight they’ve spent most of the last 30 years in the championship. We often talked about our clubs varying fortunes, especially in our dark days when we struggled for survival while Watford flirted with the premier league. In recent years he had become a minority shareholder of Watford. I never asked him how much he’d put in as it seemed rude plus I don’t think he wanted his wife to know!
Which brings me to my point. Right now, we are the Watford fans in the early 80s, living the dream. We’ve climbed the insurmountable peak, and we should be enjoying the rarified air, not complaining because we just ended (probably unjustly) a six game unbeaten run in one of the toughest leagues in the world. At the start of the season and especially after the Forest game, if anyone had told me that with four games left we’d be in the top half of the table, safe from relegation and challenging for Europe then I’d have thought they had been drinking way too much on the train back from Nottingham. None of know how long our adventure in the big league will last. Very few of us have a clue how this season will end. Enjoy this while it lasts because once these halcyon days end we may never see the likes of it again.
Let’s get behind the team for these last 4 matches and have no regrets on what may have been. We owe that to those countless fans who never got the chance to see us at our very best.
COYR
RIP Richard
Richard was a Watford fan. He grew up in Northwood and was a Watford fan when I first met him in 1983 so in all likelihood he’d been supporting them as long as I’ve supported the Bees. But for geography I might have been a Watford fan too, but Griffin Park was 3 miles closer when I decided I wanted to support my local team and not follow Charlie George around from one club to another…
Funnily enough my first ever Brentford game was the thrilling 3-3 draw against Watford in 1979. This was the beginning of Watford’s greatest era under a dedicated owner, a superb, and often under-appreciated, manager and some generational players. At the time I could only imagine how he felt, watching the club he supported as a kid rising up through the divisions, getting to the FA Cup final and playing in Europe. I was so jealous. It also didn’t help that his Minnesota Vikings were doing a lot better than my Bengals. Of course those glory days didn’t last, and apart from a couple of occasions when they have got back into the top flight they’ve spent most of the last 30 years in the championship. We often talked about our clubs varying fortunes, especially in our dark days when we struggled for survival while Watford flirted with the premier league. In recent years he had become a minority shareholder of Watford. I never asked him how much he’d put in as it seemed rude plus I don’t think he wanted his wife to know!
Which brings me to my point. Right now, we are the Watford fans in the early 80s, living the dream. We’ve climbed the insurmountable peak, and we should be enjoying the rarified air, not complaining because we just ended (probably unjustly) a six game unbeaten run in one of the toughest leagues in the world. At the start of the season and especially after the Forest game, if anyone had told me that with four games left we’d be in the top half of the table, safe from relegation and challenging for Europe then I’d have thought they had been drinking way too much on the train back from Nottingham. None of know how long our adventure in the big league will last. Very few of us have a clue how this season will end. Enjoy this while it lasts because once these halcyon days end we may never see the likes of it again.
Let’s get behind the team for these last 4 matches and have no regrets on what may have been. We owe that to those countless fans who never got the chance to see us at our very best.
COYR
RIP Richard
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anyway, it could have been well into double digits if things had gone differently.
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. And also add if spuds or west ham had the sense or balls to sign Ivan they wouldn't be in the mess there in. 
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