Foolham game.

[Golden_Boy™]

Watford boss Adrian Boothroyd is likely to name the same team that drew at Wigan last week to face Fulham.

That would mean defender Lloyd Doyley and forward Darius Henderson staying on the bench as Boothroyd's men chase their first win of the campaign.

Papa Bouba Diop and Carlos Bocanegra are full fit after playing through injury in the defeat by Chelsea.

Mark Pembridge, Luis Boa Morte, Jimmy Bullard, Ahmad Elrich, Simon Elliott and Philippe Christanval are all out.



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Watford (from): Foster, Lee, Chamberlain, DeMerit, Mackay, Shittu, Stewart, Doyley, Chambers, Mariappa, Smith, Mahon, Francis, Bouazza, Spring, Bangura, McNamee, King, Young, Henderson, Priskin.

Fulham (from): Niemi, Lastuvka, Rosenior, Knight, Pearce, Queudrue, Brown, Diop, Radzinski, Timlin, John, Helguson, McBride, Volz, Bocanegra, Routledge, N Jensen, C Jensen.


BIG-MATCH FACTS
WATFORD will run out for the Monday match, attempting for a seventh time to pick up a first win since their return to the Premiership and a 100th victory in top flight football.

The match with Fulham pits the youngest manager in the Premiership (Adrian Boothroyd, 35) with the third youngest (Chris Coleman, 36).

This is the first match-up between these clubs in the Premiership.

FULHAM have had an even start to this League campaign - two wins, two draws and two defeats. They've seemingly started matches weakly and finished strongly, conceding four goals in the first 22 minutes and scoring twice in the last five minutes.

Their last match on the road was a goalless draw at Tottenham. Should this fixture finish level, it would be the 50th draw Fulham had registered in their Premier League history.

The Cottagers have won half of their 16 previous League meetings with the Hornets, including 'doubling' their opponents at second League level in 2000-01. In addition the Thames-side club won a third round FA Cup tie after a replay in the season before last.


REFEREE
Mike Riley (Leeds, Yorkshire)

Premiership referees' table
Mike Riley's 2006-07 Premiership card count

SEQUENCES/RECENT FORM
WATFORD


Club stats
Fixtures
Going into the weekend: 18th 3 points
(all statistics are ahead of this weekend's round of Premiership fixtures)
1. Drawn their last two League games (0-0, home to Aston Villa and 1-1, away to Wigan).

2. One of only two clubs without a Premiership victory. The other is fellow promoted outfit Sheffield United.

3. Pursuing their first Premier League victory since 14 May 2000, when they beat Coventry 1-0 at Vicarage Road on their Premiership swansong.

4. Adrian Bothroyd is chasing a 25th victory in his 60th League game in charge of Watford.

5. Won six of 44 Premier League matches all time.

6. Lost half and drawn half of their League matches this season (three draws and three defeats of the six).

7. Bagged three points from the possible 18.

8. Striving for a first maximum in eight League games.

9. Drawn two and lost one of their three top flight engagements at Vicarage Road.

10. Used more players in Premiership matches this season than any other club (21).

FULHAM


Club stats
Fixtures
Going into the weekend: 11th 8 points
(all statistics are ahead of this weekend's round of Premiership fixtures)
1. The last three Premiership matches have been a win, a draw and a defeat in that order.

2. Lost the last two in League and Cup (1-2, home to Wycombe in the Carling Cup, and 0-2 home to Chelsea in the Premiership).

3. 1.5 goals per game conceded, so far in this League season.

4. Completed 18 top tier matches since a victory by more than a single goal (6-1, home to West Brom on 11 February).

5. Won one, drawn one and lost one in League games on the road, conceding double as many goals as scored (three for, six against).


KEY PLAYER NOTES/POTENTIAL MILESTONES
WATFORD


Squad profiles
Damien FRANCIS, Hameur BOUAZZA and Marlon KING have scored one Premiership goal a piece - Watford's only goalscorers so far this season.

FULHAM


Squad profiles
If he figures, Heidar HELGUSON will be playing against his former club.

If selected in the 11, HELGUSON will be making his 150th career League start (Watford and Fulham).

If involved, Moritz VOLZ will be making his 100th English League appearance (Wimbledon and Fulham).

If he gets a run out, Brian McBRIDE will be making his 100th career Premiership appearance (Everton and Fulham).

If he lines up from the opening whistle, Luis BOA MORTE will be making his 100th start in a Fulham shirt.

Mark PEMBRIDGE needs one more appearance to total 400 in his League career.

If he plays, Niclas JENSEN will be making his 50th career Premiership appearance (Manchester City and Fulham).


HEAD TO HEAD TOTALS
Home and away
League: Watford 5 wins, Fulham 8, Draws 3
Prem: Watford 0 wins, Fulham 0, Draws 0

at Watford only
League: Watford 3 wins, Fulham 3, Draws 2
Prem: Watford 0 wins, Fulham 0, Draws 0





(BBC)

[Golden_Boy™]

'H' looking forward to thanking Hornets fans

By Kevin Affleck

HEIDAR HELGUSON insists Monday night's (October 2) game with Watford provides him with the chance to salute the Vicarage Road faithful for their support.

The spring-heeled Fulham striker returns to the club for the first time since he left in the summer of 2005 and is looking forward to getting the chance to say goodbye to the fans with whom he enjoyed such a special relationship.

"The fans were absolutely fantastic to me and I haven't got a bad word to say about them - it's all positive," said the terrace hero in an exclusive interview with the Watford Observer. "I would just like to thank them for making my years there so enjoyable.

continued...
"When I played my last game there the move wasn't on the cards, so it will be nice on Monday to see them and get an opportunity to thank them for the support they showed me."

Helguson's all-action and whole-hearted approach endeared him to the fans almost instantly following his move from Lillestrom for a then club record fee of £1.5m in January 2001.

The Icelandic international, who turned 29 last month, went on to make 199 appearances, scoring 64 goals, in five-and-a-half years with the Golden Boys before Chris Coleman beat Paul Jewell to his signature.

Fans were up in arms when Helguson was sold for £1.3m at the end of a season that culminated in him becoming the first player to scoop all three of the club's end-of-season awards. But the striker insists it was time to move on and the money his sale generated helped Aidy Boothroyd build his promotion-winning team.

"For footballing reasons it wasn't that hard a decision because it was an opportunity that I couldn't really turn down," admitted Helguson.

"Once a club has accepted an offer there is not much you can do but I thought it was about time to leave. Things didn't look too rosy at the club at that point and because of the financial situation, the club needed money for me to be able to stay alive.

"It is difficult to say goodbye to people you have known and been around for so long but I experienced the Premier League in my first season at the club and then coming up against those teams in the cup made me want to play at that level every week."

(Watford Observer)

[C@V]

Fulham 1-1 Watford

[Golden_Boy™]

Watford 4 Foolham 0

[linslade04ltfc]

Pre match Report by Watford observer reporter Louise....err

As tension mounts for tonights fixture, Watford manager Betty Boothroyd told the Observer "At least i am clear on the bung inquiry.....I hope they dont look into my dealings with the canteen ladies at Shitteridge Road....nope thats the Sexual Offences Unit at Herts Police Headquarters"
Watford Observer....... Quality News at Affordable prices

[ovechkin8]

If we play as we have been doing recently I think we ought to edge this one. Have a sneaking suspicion HH might come to bite us on the bum. Heres to three points at last.

[linslade04ltfc]

oh dear lol

[Super Danny Webber]

the only team in the premiership not to have won a game ;d

[linslade04ltfc]

do i laugh or cry lol

[philpoke]

cry

[linslade04ltfc]

with laughter or tears of joy?

[HURLOCK]

good result for Watford, however Fulham are one of the teams that they needed to take all 3pts from.

Need to make some purchases in January me thinks!

[kinghornet]

at least we scored 4 goals though ;D

[hornychihuahua]

Feck feck feck

[mortontheblade]

us and thee is in the same position - need to turn bad luck into wins...

COME ON!!!