Football is back!
After a much needed international break, Watford roared back against Reading this weekend, capturing their first win of the season.
Newbie Mark Yeates had a hand (or foot as it were) in both goals, lobbing a free kick over the wall from 25 yards out for the first goal twelve minutes in and feeding the assist to John Eustace for the second goal six minutes into the second half.
Later in the day, Fanninho & I took in the SLU match against defending NCAA champs, the Akron Zips*. SLU, off a double overtime win against Notre Dame, went down 0-4 against a much stronger team, but played with more organization and discipline than I had seen yet this season, falling to set pieces and an inability to adapt against Akron's wing play.
That match was proceeded by a Guinness World Record attempt at the most people dribbling at once (have not heard how that turned out) as well as remembrance activities for 9/11 both pre-match and at the half, including honoring one of the survivors of the WTC attack.
The Watford win lifted them out of the relegation zone into sixteenth place.
I had not paid too much attention to the top of the table and was surprised to see Brighton & Hove Albion and Southampton, the 1st & 2nd place finishers in League One last year holding down those two spots in the Championship. A repeat of those standing would have paid long odds at the start of the season.
Watford's next match is next Saturday, September 17 at Barnsley. Kickoff is 9:00 am St. Louis time.
* Zips is short for Zippers, after the popular rubber overshoes manufactured by the B.F. Goodrich company (HQ'ed in Akron at the time) in the 1920's & 30's. The mascot is Zippy the Kangaroo, one of the few female mascots in college sports in the U.S.
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