Watford fire and hire again, but why is this one different?
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The Athletic
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🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ian Irving is joined by Adam Leventhal and David Walker to talk about Watford's 17th head coach of the Pozzo era.
On Monday this week in the space of 15 minutes, Watford announced the departure of Rob Edwards and the arrival of Slaven Bilic. It's not new but this time things felt different, and this time Watford fans are angry. Listen to get the inside story on how the club looks and to try to get inside the mind of Watford's trigger happy owner
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | 17 head coaches and counting. |
| 0:05.8 | Watford have fired and hired yet again before the end of September. |
| 0:10.0 | It's nothing new, and yet this time it seems quite different. |
| 0:13.7 | The Athletics Watford writer Adam Leventhal and podcaster David Walker are here to explain it all. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Ian Irving and this is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:26.4 | Breaking news concerning Watford to have sacked their manager Rob Edwards. |
| 0:31.1 | Watford supporters were told explicitly by the chairman and CEO Scott Duxbury |
| 0:36.4 | and I quote that we will be backing Rob Edwards |
| 0:38.9 | come hell or high water. And I find it really quite low end how Rob Edwards was treated. And he's |
| 0:44.0 | going to be replaced, we understand, by Slav and Billich. There's never a sense that we recruit |
| 0:49.0 | the same type of head coach. Watford were a laughing stock last season. |
| 1:02.3 | Right, let's get stuck straight into it. Adam, how long have you been covering Watford for for the athletic? Well, since the very start in, which was 2019, so the start of the |
| 1:08.5 | 2019-20 season. So yeah, we've been here a number of times. |
| 1:13.9 | We have, haven't we? So just over three years then, and how many Watford managers have you |
| 1:18.1 | had to get to know and cover? Let's see if we can get this. So Havi Gratia, Kike Sanchez-Flores |
| 1:24.4 | Mark 2, Nigel Pearson, Vladimir Ivich, Shisco Munoz, Claudia Ranieri, Roy Hodgson, Rob Edwards, he was the last one, wasn't it yet, and now Slavon Village. So however many that is, Owen Hayden Mullins thrown in, so I think we've probably got, what, nine, ten, ten managers there. So yeah, it's been... Nine permanent managers, if you include the caretaker. That is ridiculous, isn't it? |
| 1:47.1 | David, as a fan, are you rolling your eyes? I mean, even by Watford standards, that's a remarkable |
| 1:53.1 | sequence, isn't it? It is really. I mean, and I think Adam came in right at the start of |
| 2:00.4 | the really ridiculous sort of sequence of it all. |
| 2:04.4 | Because before... |
| 2:05.0 | Was it me, Dave? |
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