I have no background in soccer short of:
- "Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby
- The 2006 World Cup
- My wife started playing this summer
I really got into the World Cup this summer and being a moderate anglophile (mostly via late sixties folk-rock) took a look at England for the source of my soccer devotion. I like the club system in England, the nominally eglitarian notion that any football (there - that wasn't so bad) club can scratch its way into the Major Leagues (to use a baseball metaphor - get used to those too).
Why Watford? Blame it on Roy Harper. I was pleased to find out they were in the Premier League this year (not a fair weather fan - I'd set my sights on Watford before I knew). I will need some basic info. I know we are supposed to hate Luton Town and have the whole Hornet thing figured out, but what's with the moose? I don't think there are any moose in GB. (OK, I know there are no tigers in the US either, but at least the Detroit Tigers have the same logo and name - not like they wear a picture of a emu and call themselve the Tigers). Please fill me in on the team song/chant whatever.
The notion to blog this came late (like today) so my Everton comments will be few days off. Looking forward to West Ham United tomorrow. I hope I can follow it at work. I'll try to be dutiful, but I don't even catch all the St. Louis Cardinal games here. I hope to hear from a few devotees at Vicarage Road. Go Watford.
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The "moose" is actually a stag/hert which is because we are a club from Hertsfordshire (which is a county) and the stag/hert is the animal that symbolises Hertsfordshire. God knows why.
There are many many "team songs" and it would take a while to go through all of them. You should come over and watch a match sometime in the holidays.
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