Watford Football Blog

John Eustace had a goal disallowed deep into injury time, as former Hornets boss Brendan Rodgers secured revenge. Swansea edged 2-0 in front thanks to goals from Scott Sinclair and Stephen Dobbie, before on loan striker Frank Nouble made it 3-0 to the Swans on 69 minutes. Watford then gave the home faithful a glimmer of [...]

Brendan Rodgers is all set to reinstate his feet into Vicarage Road, this time though the former “Hornets” boss will be managing Swansea City, currently the 9th best team in the Npower Championship. With Watford on fire and with home advantage, can Malky Mackay’s side make it four league wins in a row? The Teams [...]

The return of home hero, Heidar Helguson sparked a goal frenzy at Vicarage Road today as the points were shared in a topsy-turvy encounter. The Icelander, temporarily back at the Vic after a three month loan deal was agreed with his parent club Queens Park Rangers during the week, took no time at all re-acquainting [...]

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000180 EndHTML:0000011916 StartFragment:0000002585 EndFragment:0000011880 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/tom/Documents/Watford%20V%20Barnsley.doc Malky Mackay hailed his young Watford side as they dug in for a gutsy 1-0 victory at Vicarage Road over bottom club Barnsley. This was the Hornet’s first victory at home since the arrival of Mackay following the departure of Brendan Rodgers back in July. They were made to [...]

Scott Loach has signed a contract extension keeping him at Watford until 2012. The 20 year-old has established himself as the Golden Boys number one, as well as a regular part of Stuart Pearce’s U21 setup. Delighted with his new three year deal Loach said: “I’m over the moon, I didn’t expect to be signing [...]

Andrei Stepanov has joined Watford on a short term contract for the remainder of the season. The Estonian international has spent the past week on trial at Watford’s London Colney training ground and has done enough to get himself a contract for the end of the current season. The defender, born in Tallinn, arrives from [...]

Lee Williamson has joined fellow Championship side Preston North End on loan until the end of the season. North End are currently battling for a place in the play-offs and Williamson has made the move in order to increase his chances of making it to the Premiership. The central midfielder joined from Rotherham United over [...]

Watford have announced the signing of Tottenham youngster Danny Rose on loan until the end of the season. In other transfer news Liam Henderson has rejoined the Hornets after his spell at Hartlepool United. Rose is an attacking midfielder who can play out wide or through the middle. The 18 year old joined Tottenham from [...]

Watford and Ipswich played out a 0-0 draw in front of a subdued Portman Road crowd. Both sides had their chances however both were unable to beat the goalkeepers. Scott Loach was in particularly good form to keep out Ipswich whilst Watford insisted on doing things ‘the Arsenal way’ and passing the ball into the [...]

Watford were unlucky to come away from Ninian Park, home of Cardiff City, without anything to show as another late penalty deprived the Hornets of a point away from home. The night started well for the Golden Boys as Tommy Smith converted from the spot early in the game. Cardiff pulled level minutes later however, [...]