Name: Watford
Founded: 1881 (as Watford Rovers, became Watford Football Club in 1898)
Home ground: Vicarage Road
League Titles: 0
Instagram: @watfordfcofficial
Watford have had mixed fortunes in English football. Their most successful period came after Elton John became club chairman in 1976 and under Graham Taylor's tenure as manager between 1977 and 1987. The Hornets rose from the fourth to the first division, finishing second in the English top-flight in 1983, before competing in the UEFA Cup and reaching the FA Cup final the following year. The club also made the FA Cup final for a second time in 2019. Past players include John Barnes, David James and Ashley Young.
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Elton John: The Watford Years
LONG FORM The late Oli Phillips reported for the Watford Observer from 1963 to 2005 – before his passing, he gave FFT the fascinating inside story of a rock’n’roll superstar’s love affair with his football club
"I'm gonna take it to the Moon": KSI tells FourFourTwo how he plans to get his new club Dagenham & Redbridge into the Premier League
EXCLUSIVE Some fans didn't know KSI when he joined Dagenham in March, but the YouTuber has big ambitions. In an era of celebrity investors, he tells FFT why he wants to take the club to the Premier League
‘Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy were on the bench. We watched the whole game back on YouTube. People tell you where they were when it happened’ Troy Deeney on Watford’s playoff win over future England duo
EXCLUSIVE One of Deeney’s most iconic goals came against a side featuring two future Three Lions goalscorers
Why Watford are gambling on youth and past glories combo to free themselves from Championship purgatory
Watford have become perpetual middle-of-the-road finishers in the Championship since their most recent relegation - but they're trying to change that
‘Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Ice Cube – I’m from that late-70s, early-80s era, so I like those kinds of raps’ John Barnes reveals the one rap song he wished he’d been asked to perform on
Former England winger Barnes rhymed himself into music folklore with his iconic rap on New Order’s ‘World in Motion’, but reveals he was never asked to perform on other records
FourFourTwo's half-term report: Which teams have surprised us so far this season?
FourFourTwo looked back at our 2025/26 season predictions to see which teams are exceeding expectations so far... and who's falling short
'If I hadn’t gone to jail, I’d be dead now. It was the hard reset I needed' Troy Deeney on prison, management and THAT Watford goal
EXCLUSIVE After drunkenly stumbling into professional football, Troy Deeney spent 13 weeks in prison, but emerged to become a Watford legend. He still has ambitions for a successful managerial career, too – just don’t ask him about Dale Vince…
‘Thankfully I was found, I’d taken an overdose, and they pumped my stomach. I survived.’ Clarke Carlisle on the career-threatening injury that drove him to attempt suicide
Former professional footballer Clarke Carlisle has been very vocal about the battles with his mental health he waged during his career
