This week's trip down Vicarage Road memory lane reflects on the ownership of Jack Petchey WatfordFC
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Watford-wise the 1990s were a bit of a lost decade for me, well at least the years from 1992 to 1997 were. We all have a lost period in our supporting lives, that time where perhaps relationships, family, finance or just priorities in life dictate that the obsession you’ve seen thus far as admirable loyalty is in fact blatant selfish indulgence. I didn’t totally stop going, yet somehow really wasn’t that bothered.
It was a chronic lack of finance which really defined the era. Clubs, at least those in what was then known as Division One, had to make do with what they had, and what they had generally were mediocre gates, modest sponsorship deals, and hopefully one or two players that would increase in value enough to ensure that the club would see out another season.
Petchey was unpopular – even Bassini avoided a boardroom crowd invasion – but I will always contend that if not for Jack’s sheer, dogged loathing of spending money he didn’t have, the Pozzo revolution may well have occurred at the Valley rather than in WD18.
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