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If you have good or funny story about yourself or a mate, that involves Watford fc, eg a away day disaster. Then contact me on my e-mail address below. Here are some stories which people have sent me:

Watford Stewards are the Best

Probably the best story I can tell of what has happened to me at a football match, is when I got chucked out of the Huddersfield game at home earlier this year. I ran onto the pitch after the great headed goal by Tommy Mooney. The stewards after falling over the advertising boards, lobbed me out. This left me stuck outside the ground in the rain standing in Vicarage road. So I walked down to the Rookery and stood there for a bit. A steward a couple of minutes later opened the gates to let a Huddersfield fan out, why would you leave a game 15 minutes before the end? Anyway, the steward walked away, so I sneakily made my way into the away end, walked past the old bill, and then took my seat alongside the northerner's from Yorkshire. I missed the Huddersfield goal, but at least I managed to watch the last 15 minutes or so.

Bury St Edmonds away

The funniest football fan story I have ever heard is an away day disaster of my mate, who I will keep his name quiet.
This game meant a trip up north on the 31 October 98 for an away game in Lancashire. He set of by tain from Watford junction, after buying his ticket and getting the platform number from the bloke in the ticket office. All pretty normal you say, but what happened next will put a smile on your face. He got of the station of which he thought was Bury, but to his surprise no Watford fan's got off, he asked someone where the football ground was, the reply was something like "what football ground?". He was getting a bit worried by now, so he asked anoter local for directions to the Gigg lane stadium, but he got the same reply, my mate then asked him, "this is Bury isn't it?" the bloke laughed, "sorry mate this ain't Bury, your in Bury St Edmond's". Their conversation ended right there, "shit!", he legged straight back to the station and asked how to get to Manchester Picadilly. The woman told him he had to change at Cambridge. So he bought his ticket. When he arrived at Cambridge, he was told the next train would'nt get up to Manchester until after 3pm. He was well and truly gutted by now, he decided to head back to Watford, he managed to get a refund when he got back, explaining it was all the bloke's fault in the ticket office.
Not only did he miss the match, but to rub it in, the hornet's won 3-1! In a action packed game. Oh what being a Watford supporter put's people through.

Email: d.wade@pmail.net