Watford’s owners, the Pozzo family, have, in other words, taken a non-traditional approach to running their club and it is, somehow, some way, working. Take, for another example, the squad ...

A strong whiff of Modern Football catches in the throat. The Pozzos were the first simultaneous owners of clubs in Spain, Italy and England’s top flights. After Watford used loan regulations to ...

Watford’s incredible rise from the fourth tier of English football to the top flight took just five seasons. They then finished as runners-up to Liverpool in the club’s first elite-division ...