The Watford Courier
Match17 Oct 2026
6 goals as Watford and Ipswich Town go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Watford and Ipswich Town, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Jonathan Macaulay
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match17 Oct 2026
Watford come up short against Ipswich Town
Ipswich Town left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Edoardo Bove gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Late improvement for Nathan Baxter
At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑4 defeat, delivered by Michael Matthews to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Kwadwo Baah runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Watford training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edo Kayembe is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Yannick Agnero finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Watford have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
- Looking ahead Thomas Ince faces his old club
- The dugout Mady Camara does not fit this one
- The dugout The manager makes Daniel Bachmann a promise