NORTHAMPTON TOWN 1-2 WATFORD

What a pleasant way to spend a balmy summers evening, a couple of pints in the Sixfields Tavern laughing at all the Watford fans being turned away by the Geriatric bouncer. And then a leisurely stroll to my new seat in the West Stand,which has taken the whole of last season to wrestle back from the young upstart who tried to nick it, well you can't now, I've got a Season Ticket.

There was a presentation of Promotion Medals and a Trophy to the Cobbs from the Nationwide, very nice but an injection of a vast sum of money would be more welcome methinks. The numerous Watford fans looked on rather bemused, they really don't have a lot to celebrate, do they? I must comment on the dress sense of these creatures, the Watford "Moody Geezer" is still sporting Henri LLoyd, and horror of horrors, Ralph Lauren Blousons. Sort yourselves out Lads!

The Cobbs shaped up with Gabbiadini and Forrester up front, and five across the back, Frainy was back at his old Position of Left Back, he's more effective when he plays in a more central role, as he did last season. Its obvious that Signor Gabbi has upset Watford at some point in his illustrious career, everytime he touched the ball he received taunts of "cheat" he seems to thrive on it, the Watford players 5 and 6, Palmer and Robinson appeared to have taken extreme umbrage at Gabbiadinis appearance on the pitch and spent most of the match attempting to shove him off it. Rugby is played at Franklins Gardens not Sixfields.

The referee was shocking, Mr Walton I know you are local, and are maybe afraid of showing bias, but a foul is a foul is a foul. The Watford defence were allowed to foul Forrester and Gabbiadini at will, even to the extent that Forrester was wrestled to the ground in the box, and Mr Walton blew for a free kick outside it, why? the assistant referees were as bad.

Watford opened the scoring with a well worked move, the Cobblers equalised from the aforementioned freekick, taken by the immortal Frain and put away by the soon to be Forrester.

The second half produced a lot of pressure from Watford, and inevitably a goal from the "Edger Davids' clone, Nordin Wooter, why do these Dutch men have such stupid hair? he appeared to receive a smack in the mouth from Sammo, which resulted in the usual "handbags at dawn". Sammo received taunts from the Watford fans for the rest of the match.

Gabbiadini continued his feud with the Watford defence, its good to see a Cobblers forward snapping and growling at the oppositions defence, we,ve been too nice in previous seasons and its cost us dearly. A run and shot from Gabbiadini almost led to the equaliser, Forrester followed up the re-bound but the keeper was able to save it.

All in all it was a fairly entertaining spectacle, the scoreline does,nt really matter, these games have very little bearing on the season ahead. All I ask is that we kill the Pish, it was good to see the new signings on home turf, messers Gabbiadini and Forrester seemed to work well together, I for one cannot wait to see them both up front with big Stevie Howard holding up the ball for both of them to score goal after goal.

And finally who was that Watford No10.................. not even the Watford fans knew who he was, very strange? oh and before I forget, Watford won 2-1.

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