Our latest book review comes from Tom Bodell, editor of Vital Watford. Tom can be followed on Twitter at @TBBodell and here casts his eye on the autobiography of Richard Lee, one time Hornet and now a Bee. Graduation: Life Lessons of a Professional Footballer By Richard Lee Published by Bennion Kearny August 2010, £9.

Our latest book review comes from Tom Bodell, editor of Vital Watford. Tom can be followed on Twitter at @TBBodell and here casts his eye on the autobiography of Richard Lee, one time Hornet and now a Bee. Graduation: Life Lessons of a Professional Footballer By Richard Lee Published by Bennion Kearny August 2010, £9.

Name: Bruce Dyer In his 1990s prime for: Crystal Palace Lowdown: After beginning his career with Watford in 1993, Dyer was sold to Crystal Palace after less than one season with the club, moving for £1.1million, the record transfer fee for an English teenager at the time and England's first £1million teenager.

Poka, Pav
It has been one hell of a busy fortnight in the world of Tottenham Hotspur – and not a whisper of any of it from The Boys From White Hart Lane. For shame.
So, in a desperate attempt to catch up - and stay relevant – TBFWHL is taking a look back at 14 days in which Spurs stumbled into the fifth round of the FA Cup, re-entered the title race after a brief remission and brought in a couple of battle-hardened veterans at the expense of a cult hero.

Poka, Pav
It has been one hell of a busy fortnight in the world of Tottenham Hotspur – and not a whisper of any of it from The Boys From White Hart Lane. For shame.
So, in a desperate attempt to catch up - and stay relevant – TBFWHL is taking a look back at 14 days in which Spurs stumbled into the fifth round of the FA Cup, re-entered the title race after a brief remission and brought in a couple of battle-hardened veterans at the expense of a cult hero.

Now the title of this one might be rather annoying to some fans. Many (me included) have seen Tom Cleverley becoming something of a savior for our team. In truth, when we were 2-0 down against City...
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We hadn't realised that Mike Williamson is very good friends with Adrian Mariappa of Watford. Adrian Mariappa not coming to Newcastle We knew that Mike had played with Mariappa at Watford when he was there in 2009 for nine months, before he moved to Portsmouth, but Mike has said he's disappointed the move didn't finally materialize, as Watford and Newcastle were unable [.

THFC1882 presents guest writer Kenny Palmer's report of Tottenham Hotspur versus Wigan:

A man of the match performance by Gareth Bale against obliging opponents Wigan helped reignite Spurs title challenge, as they now sit just five points behind the Manchester clubs following the leaders City's defeat to Everton.

After Blackburn got their very own Olsson twins yesterday, we look at the best of twin team-mates to grace English football. 1. Rafael and Fabio Da Silva Arguably English football's top-achieving twins to date, in tag team terms. Unlike some sets of footballing twins, the talent seems to be fairly equal between the pair.

The one priority Newcastle had in this transfer market was to get a center-back in. Adrian Mariappa fee couldn't be agreed with Watford And Newcastle failed to do that, although it seems they came fairly close to signing Adrian Mariappa of Watford, as cover for Coloccini and Williamson, but we are no better off [.

We see Adrian Mariappa is starting the game for Watford at Milwall tonight in the Championship. Adrian Mariappa starts at Milwall tonight means no deal? So that hardly gives any time for the player to complete a move to Newcastle, if indeed he is to come through the door at Newcastle before 11:00 [.

Okay, you can all relax now. Turns out that our hero, Arsenal captain Robin van Persie, will NOT be sanctioned for allegedly throwing an elbow in the face of defender Carlos Cuéllar, after all. Had the Football Association chosen to sanction him, and there certainly seemed to be justification for doing so, the punishment to both Robin as an individual and Arsenal as a cohesive whole would have been severe enough, considering the awful timing, to virtually end the team's season on quite a sour note.

Okay, you can all relax now. Turns out that our hero, Arsenal captain Robin van Persie, will NOT be sanctioned for allegedly throwing an elbow in the face of defender Carlos Cuéllar, after all. Had the Football Association chosen to sanction him, and there certainly seemed to be justification for doing so, the punishment to both Robin as an individual and Arsenal as a cohesive whole would have been severe enough, considering the awful timing, to virtually end the team's season on quite a sour note.

THFC1882 welcomes back guest writer Kenny Palmer with a preview of Tottenham Hotspur versus Wigan.

A week is a long time in football, as Spurs two contrasting performances highlighted. Heroic in defeat against Manchester City earning plaudits for the character they showed in coming back from 2-0 down to level the scores before losing to an injury time penalty.

Hello. A good a place to start as any, I suppose. You know where you are with hello. It's comforting, familiar. In the same way it's nice to know that a tiny part of every Arsenal fan's soul must die when they see Theo Walcott in the number ‘14' shirt each weekend, only to more often than not play like Lenny Henry rather than the garment's most formidable inhabitant.

"Go on, touch it. I've put the safety on."Football on a Friday night? It's just not cricket. Perhaps that was the reason for Tottenham's utterly distasteful performance at Vicarage Road as they scraped past a plucky Watford. If you were to believe the general theme of the commentary and post-match media reports, you'd be forgiven for thinking Spurs arrived in north west London, rudely parked their giant team coach wherever they chose, shaped to headbutt anyone and everyone on their way in and spend the entire game cheating and coercing the ref into allowing them victory.

"Go on, touch it. I've put the safety on."Football on a Friday night? It's just not cricket. Perhaps that was the reason for Tottenham's utterly distasteful performance at Vicarage Road as they scraped past a plucky Watford. If you were to believe the general theme of the commentary and post-match media reports, you'd be forgiven for thinking Spurs arrived in north west London, rudely parked their giant team coach wherever they chose, shaped to headbutt anyone and everyone on their way in and spend the entire game cheating and coercing the ref into allowing them victory.

Spurs took the concept of winning ugly to new depths on Friday night in a poor performance that saw them edge past Watford and into the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Match winner Rafael van der Vaart conceded that this wasn't the best performance by this current Spurs side but he was relieved to get through the tie.

Arsenal's defence has taken a pounding over the last few weeks with the numerous injuries to the back line, and Arsene Wenger has maintained that there is no truth in any of the Arsenal transfer rumours and he will not be making any purchases in the next few days, maybe! He was typically cryptic last [.

Hertfordshire Fire Service MuseumAdabeyor was disappointed to find we were going to play a football match and not to visit this must see Watford feature. The JimmyG2 Column I know the Watford Civic and Preservation Society will disagree but Watford was more than just horrible and disgraceful, it was horrible disgraceful.

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With Tax-dodge McGurk back on the bench after a week in Southwark crown court, a single against-the-run-of-play 25-yard pinger from Rafael van der Vaart saw Tottenham into the Fifth round proper at Vicarage Road last night, despite coming in for an absolute shelling from Watford during the second-half.

Jesus H Christ Almighty that was a dire performance. Granted, we're through to the fifth round, a win is a win and all that but for the majority of the match, not only did we look like the championship side, but a championship side with only 10 men still on the bloody pitch! Never mind, they were obviously saving their energy for the thrashing of Wigan on Tuesday.

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Watford vs Tottenham FA Cup 2012 Highlights 0-1 Van der Vaart Goal Video Spurs is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Watford vs Tottenham 2012 ( Watford Spurs Video below) Final score and result: Watford vs Tottenham 0-1 ( Van der Vaart) Vicarage Road, FA Cup- 27 January, 2012- Friday- 19.

A brilliant Rafael Van der Vaart strike guided Tottenham Hotspur to a 1-0 win at Watford while Marouane Fellaini's decisive second-half goal saw off Fulham in Friday's all-Premier League FA Cup Fourth Round clash at Goodison Park.

Van der Vaart struck right before half-time from 30-yards out to stun Vicarage Road and give the Spurs a slender advantage that the hosts were not able to overturn.

A brilliant Rafael Van der Vaart strike guided Tottenham Hotspur to a 1-0 win at Watford while Marouane Fellaini's decisive second-half goal saw off Fulham in Friday's all-Premier League FA Cup Fourth Round clash at Goodison Park.

Van der Vaart struck right before half-time from 30-yards out to stun Vicarage Road and give the Spurs a slender advantage that the hosts were not able to overturn.

During the first half of the Watford v Spurs match, the ESPN cameramen spotted a rather simple man who had WFC on both cheeks and clearly didn't realise that what he sees in the mirror isn't the same as what the rest of us see... I can only assume he did the right cheek and [...] Related posts:

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During the first half of the Watford v Spurs match, the ESPN cameramen spotted a rather simple man who had WFC on both cheeks and clearly didn't realise that what he sees in the mirror isn't the same as what the rest of us see... I can only assume he did the right cheek and [...] Related posts:

1. What are we waiting for?

News is coming in that Watford have just rejected Newcastle's third bid for center-back Adrian Mariappa. Adrian Mariappa 3rd bid turned down by Watford That was supposed to be the third and final bid from Newcastle, and it's very unusual for Mike Ashley to go back twice with improved offers for any player, but that seems [.

Welcome, if you've managed to get this far. We're having one or two server problems, you see. Hence why this page may've taken longer to load than an episode of Casualty. On a lighter note, I did find a Dairylea Dunker in the fridge last night, so it swings in round-a-bouts.

Watford dans la Cup, then.

Assistant Kevin Bond was giving little away in terms of team news yesterday while he did confirm that there were injury doubts over Scott Parker, Younes Kaboul and Gareth Bale,

"Younes missed training on Wednesday, while both Gareth and Scotty had to come out of training early with slight muscle problems," he said.

If Newcastle cannot get Adrian Mariappa in from Watford before next Tuesday evening, who are the other targets Newcastle are pursuing? Cesena's Yohan Benalouane available on loan We know that a number of their top targets like James Tomkins are not available in January, but the 22 year-old could be available in the summer, if for example West Ham don't gain promotion back to [.

It's been a long week for Harry Redknapp and the manager will no doubt be delighted to get back to football affairs as Spurs take on Watford at Vicarage Road tomorrow night. Reports today are confirming that Harry will be in the dugout and he will pick the team but who is available to choose from?

Watford away in the 4th round of the FA Cup and the mood in their forums suggests that the result is a foregone conclusion and that it'll be a "nice" game to watch as the pressure is completely off. Some fans are hoping we play a weakened side to give them a chance at going through. One fan reckons that for the number of usual starting 11 players in the Spurs team will be equal to the number of goals they lose by.

Most Spurs fans will be grateful for an early weekend kick off as a chance to get back to the football after a mixed week at the club. Watford will host us in our fourth round FA Cup tie and one player almost certain to feature is the versatile Jake Livermore.

Jake has appeared regularly in the cup competitions, even filling in at right back against Cheltenham and has therefore underlined his potential to the club in more than one area of the pitch.

Reports have been coming through today that a permanent deal for Giovani dos Santos could be tied up before the weekend. There has been much speculation about Gio's future since the transfer window opened and according to Villareal's vice-president Jose Manuel Llaneza, Gio's White Hart Lane misery could soon be at and end.

Newcastle could find themselves in an unlikely bidding war with the son of Watford manager Sean Dyche. That's if the Hornets boss' tongue-in-cheek comments about the Magpies' bid for defender Adrian Mariappa. Dyche has rejected a bid of £750,000 and an improved bid of £2m for the 25-year-old. He said: "A bid has been made [.

Gary Smith is the new Stevenage manager. It doesn't come as any surprise that Smith has been appointed as he has been the favourite for the position over the last week or so. He was even in the main stand watching his new side beat play-off rivals MK Dons 4-2 earlier tonight. News of his appointment broke soon after and the Harlow born coach is set to be the man given the task of replacing Graham Westley and continuing Boro's promotion push.

It's been such a flat start to the week after Sunday's defeat which was hard to take, followed by current Spurs headlines which are dominated by Harry's court case.

The season goes on however and at the club, Joe Jordan and Jermain Defoe are leading the voices that are ‘taking the positives' out of Sunday's game.

Easily the best footballing side in the Championship last season, it's hardly a surprise that Swansea have been attracting a lot of positive attention due to their performances in the Premier League. Thomas Rooney thinks a couple of Swans should be given a chance in the England squad and if the widely predicted changes happen after Euro 2012, Thomas has a point!

Stevenage are on the road again this weekend as they make a trip up to Glanford Park to face Alan Knill's Scunthorpe United. Boro are still managerless after Graham Westley's departure last Friday, but they will be confident going into the game after a run of 10 away games in all competitions without defeat.