Four generations of Jessica Walters’ family, along with 16,000 football fans, cheered her as the only Watford FC girl mascot on the pitch for their first home game of the season.

She was following in her father Daniel’s footsteps who 30 years earlier was also a proud mascot before a Watford game at Vicarage Road.

Jessica, aged six, lives in Mill Hill and attends Haberdashers' Askes' School for Girls in Aldenham.

Fourteen members of her extended family - most of them life-long Watford fans - were at the game to watch the youngster skip on to the Vicarage Road pitch alongside captain Almen Abdi.

Her 92-year-old great grandfather and great grandmother, Eddie and Betty Marks from Watford, were in the Upper Rouse to see Jessica take centre stage, as were paternal grandparents Carole and Reg Edward from Stanmore; Susie and Clive Walters from Watford; great uncle Geoffrey Edward from Northwood; aunt Samantha Walton from Mill Hill; cousins Darcey and Naomi from Mill Hill; uncle Ivor from California; parents Katie and Daniel Walters from Mill Hill; brother and sister Joe and Zoe Walters from Mill Hill.

Now siblings Joe and Zoe are hoping they can follow Jessica’s, and their father, to be a mascot in the future.

Gran Carole Edward said the family’s fantastic day was one of the special aspects of being a Watford FC fan.

She said: "This is what makes Watford such a special club.

"Generations of families do and surely will want to be involved with their local team especially now that they could be on the threshold of national greatness."