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Clap Your Hands, Stamp Your Feet £2.50 An independent view of Watford FC and football in general BACK IN BLACK ... AND WHITE! DOWNLOAD EDITION Please visit our Just Giving page and make a donation to The Bobby Moore Fund http://www.justgiving.com/CYHSYF Thank You! Geri says: “Good Lord! Are you Clap boys still going in glorious black and white? I may even pick up the mic and start miming again…” Credits The editorial team would like to extend their immense gratitude in no particular order to the following people, without whom this fanzine would not have been possible: Marvin Monroe Jay’s Mum Steve Cuthbert Tom Willis Woody Wyndham Josh Freedman Capt’n Toddy Martin & Frances Pipe Jamie Parkins (for the photos) Mike Parkin Hamish Currie Guy Judge Chris Lawton Martin Pollard Ed Messenger (since 1951) Tim Turner Bill Wilkinson our sellers Sam Martin and Ian Grant .. and of course to you our readers for buying it! Thanks a million! Barry and John While this edition is officially a ‘one off’ at the moment, if you would like to see Clap Your Hands Stamp Your Feet back on the streets at another date in future then please continue to send your padding to our email address over the next few months and if we get enough contributions we may yet be back in the springtime... yep, fairweather fanzine sellers - that’s us! [email protected] The views expressed in this fanzine are not necessarily shared by the editors and we take no responsibility for any offence or controversy arising from their publication. It’s only a load of old padding anyway so if it has caused offence - get a life! Design and layout by John Wood. Freelance Graphic Designer available for all small business and personal printed design needs inc. Marketing Flyers & Brochures, Invitations, MS Powerpoint Templates, Corporate Identity and Branding. No web work. No job too small! email: [email protected] ... September nd 1980 ... “I hadn’t had a touch of the ball,” said 17 year old substitute Nigel Callaghan. “Martin Patching told me to go into the box. The ball just came to me. I hit it. I thought it would bounce out when it hit the bar. But it was in. I just grabbed the nearest person. It hasn’t sunk in yet, I’m numb, It’s amazing. It’s like a dream.” A young Nigel Callaghan (far right) has just written his name into Watford folklore Of all Watford’s ‘Special Nights’ - and there have been many - surely this one was THE Special One. The 7-1 humbling of First Division Southampton, wiping out a 4-0 first leg deficit, was Roy of the Rovers stuff - capped off by a 17 year old unknown called Nigel Callaghan coming off the bench to smash the 6th goal into the roof of the net and finally edge us ahead in the tie. Cally went on to score many fantastic goals for the Orns, the cheeky backheel against West Ham, the two screamers away to Notts County, the last minute volley at Old Trafford all come to mind. But this is the one that the few of us lucky enough to witness it will remember long after the others. Cally is Watford through and through - spotted as a youngster playing in Hemel and came up through the youth team. An object of much affection on and off the field, not least for his legendary ‘Cally’s Discos’. But there was nobody better at whipping in deadly accurate crosses from the right - even David Beckham would have had to doff his hat to him if he’d been around in those days. While a small minority of the crowd foolishly labelled him lazy, he battled hard and won them over, before moving onto Derby and Villa, and a brief but successful loan spell back at the Vic in March 1991. Sadly, earlier this year Cally found that he had an even bigger battle on his hands against bowel cancer. Now almost 30 years to the day since AC/DC released Back in Black, and Cally scored THAT goal, it’s time to salute a true local hero, the legendary DJ with the legendary waistline, and wish him the best of luck for the coming months and years. Derby County Legends v Watford Legends Pride Park Stadium, Sunday 12th September, KO 1.00pm. Former stars of both Watford and Derby County will meet at Pride Park in September as the two clubs join together to raise money for former Hornet Nigel Callaghan. Watford Chairman Money raised from the sale Graham Taylor, as well as Luther Blissett and John Barnes have already confirmed their of this fanzine will benefit The attendance. Other former Golden Boys on show will include John McClelland, Nigel Gibbs, Steve Bobby Moore Fund, Nigel Palmer, Neil Price and Iwan Roberts. All funds raised on the day will go to Nigel Callaghan, the Callaghan’s chosen cancer Bobby Moore Cancer Research and Lewis Mighty. Tickets are now available to purchase for the charity. game, costing £10 for adults and £5 for concessions. They can be purchased from the Derby Please make your donation at: County Ticket Office by calling 0871 472 1884 or by logging on to wearederby.com. http://www.justgiving.com/CYHSYF John Wood Watford Waffle First of all, let me do the Oscar speech. I’d like to say what a pleasure it has been to be given the honour of the Waffle page. As it is increasingly unlikely I’ll get to trot out onto the hallowed Vicarage Road turf decked in the famous yellow with the skipper’s tourniquet strapped around my upper arm, this is as close as I am ever going to get to fulfilling my childhood dream. There are so many people who have made this adventure possible and who have been listed in the credits page – I love all of you! In this edition, we have some of the regular old faces as well as some new talent on show. A combination of nostalgia, serious, amusing and some downright padding. All in a typical Clap read really. You know you love it. So, it has been the best part of a decade since the ragamuffin publication Clap Your Hands Stamp Your Feet waltzed its way onto the streets of WD18. As I am sure a lot of you know, a lot of the writers continued carrying the banner into the excellent Look At The Stars, an amalgamation of Clap and The Yellow Experience, well into the last decade, but for a while I’ve been thinking about doing a one off special. I’ve received several emails asking me if this is definitely a one off special. The answer is an ambiguous ‘probably’. It is genuinely flattering that people still remember us and miss us, but what with a plethora of fanzine style tittle-tattle readily and freely available on the web, is there really a need for a hard copy publication on the streets? Also as well, the original fanzine editorial team (some of which you’ll spot later) have pretty much all grown up, got responsible jobs, got married and are now all pillars of the community. Well, something like that. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. But like the boys of Take That and some bands of the 1980s, we thought we’d get our laptops out and perform one last time. The last thing CYHSYF was involved with was the Graham Taylor Special at the end of the 2001 season. So, in that time what has happened? Well, in the summer before there was an autopsy on the England team’s failure to set the world alight at a major tournament, Manchester United were dominating the English league, whilst Liverpool where losing ground everyday, but thinking of more inventive excuses (is it a coincidence they’ve never won the league since they banned the back pass rule?) Tottenham were just a couple of great players away from being ‘great’ again and Watford where pootling along in the lower second tier. Actually, not a lot has changed at all has it? But as always, it has been far from boring. We had the excitement and expectation of the Vialli campaign for it all to end in bitter disappointment, the loving tenure of Uncle Ray, who remarkably (and looking back, goodness knows how) brought us not only the very survival of our club, but chucked in a couple of semi finals. The progressive sound-biting wisdom of Aidy Boothroyd who not only shook the club up so much, the cabbages are still reverberating in the allotments to our current appointment, the likeable student, Malky. The mediocre personnel of Jamie Hand and Steve Kabba are now only distant memories of the statisticians, but the wondrous moments that where produced by Marlon King (he was great for us, despite his later misdemeanours) and Ashley Young will stay for years. Who can forget that 3-0 victory at Smellhurst Park? There where many, many other stars too, but I’ve singled them out because of that day. We’ve also borrowed some great players like Adam Johnson and young Tom Cleveley. Even though they were never ‘ours’, we still think of them as ‘Orns. But for me though, Watford is all about Jay DeMerits and Lloyd Doyleys. We don’t expect players to be the best in the world, but we’ll take any player to our hearts who’ll run and try until they are pooped, before you can utter the words ‘Sir Thomas Mooney’.