Latest articles from Ed Perchard

FAN'S VIEW: Gracia 'a dream' who has been let down

There’s nothing like the first few weeks of the football season. Fully refreshed, you have forgotten the misery that sport can bring, and instead can luxuriate in the fresh mix of familiar surroundings and new bells and whistles around your club, all with an entirely logical and justified sense of optimism.

FAN VIEW: Hornets can avoid familiar slump in key month

International breaks often feel like impositions on the domestic season. They’re too-frequent sideshows that disrupt the flow of what most of us are actually interested in. But last week, the final pause of 2018, has given everyone - fans and clubs alike - one last chance to breathe before what will be for Watford a season-defining month.

FAN'S VIEW: Time to bask in the glow of glorious start

This is it. Here’s your chance. Strut into school, laugh at your Arsenal-supporting colleagues, remind your sibling that they chose to support United instead and so deserve everything they get. Laugh off the responses that it will all come crashing down to earth, that Watford always start well. Who cares?

FAN'S VIEW: Settled summer will aid Hornets

Last weekend’s sweaty, half-paced friendly with Sampdoria didn’t tell us much about Watford’s prospects going into the new season, but the team that toiled in the boiling sun did show something that has long been missing from a Watford side in August – consistency.