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  • Gracia wants to achieve 'something special'

    Javi Gracia wants to achieve something special with Watford this season after reaching the 40 point mark before the end of February. The Hornets' head coach insists that if his side can keep playing as well as they did in their 5-1 win over Cardiff

  • Report: Deulofeu destroys Bluebirds

    Gerard Deulofeu's first hat-trick in English football saw Watford stroll to a 5-1 victory at Cardiff and climb to seventh place in the Premier League. Deulofeu, recalled to the Hornets' starting line-up after sitting out the FA Cup win at QPR,

  • Everton to pay compensation for Silva

    Everton are to pay Watford £4 million compensation for their hiring of Marco Silva, in order to avoid a Premier League enquiry. Watford had made a formal complaint to the Premier League last year after Silva left for the Toffees, as they believed

  • Ministers deliver ultimatum to stop no-deal Brexit

    Two south Hertfordshire MPs are reported to be part of a high-level push to ensure a no-deal Brexit is taken off the table. Justice Secretary David Gauke and business and industry minister Richard Harrington are among nine ministers threatening

  • Hornets' Gunners clash moved for TV

    Watford’s home Premier League fixture with Arsenal in April has been moved for live TV broadcast. The clash with the Gunners at Vicarage Road, originally scheduled for Saturday, April 13, will now be played on Monday, April 15 with an 8pm kick-off

  • TV star launches new intu shop

    A former Blue Peter presenter helped to launch a pop-up charity shop specialising in designer clothing. TV presenter and Action for Children retail ambassador, Anthea Turner, put in a surprise appearance at the intu shopping centre in Watford to

  • Gracia's home draw delight

    Watford head coach Javi Gracia is delighted to finally have a home cup tie this season. The Hornets will face Crystal Palace at home on Saturday, March 16 in an early 12.15pm kick-off as they aim to reach the semi-finals of the FA Cup. The

  • Theft prompts police appeal

    Police have released a CCTV image of a man they wish to speak to in connection to a fuel theft. Hertfordshire Constabulary said a driver filled up his tank without paying at the Tesco garage on High Road in Bushey Heath at around 2pm yesterday.

  • Next season kick-off date announced

    The Premier League has announced its 2019/20 season will begin on Saturday, August 10, with the transfer window closing two days earlier. The transfer deadline on the Thursday will be at 5pm. It will be the second successive year the window will

  • Wattana falls to 14-year-old in Watford

    Fourteen-year-old Belgian Ben Mertens defeated former world number three James Wattana in the first round of the BetVictor Shoot Out at Watford Colosseum. The young amateur, who had been 60-31 up, triumphed 60-59 when Thailand's Wattana, 49, ran

  • Warnock: 'Hornets are the best of the rest'

    Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock has described Watford as the best team outside the top six and he believes a third victory on the trot for the Bluebirds is an impossible achievement. Cardiff would climb to 13th place by claiming a third successive

  • Best places to commute into London revealed

    The best towns to be a commuter in the UK have been revealed. Top of the list was Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, where a train ride into London only takes 26 minutes and the average house costs £384,000, a study by TotallyMoney found. Just behind