Eric Robert Charles BURGESS (1964) Defender

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1 Eric Robert Charles BURGESS (1964) Defender Born Edgware, Middlesex, 27 October 1944 Football League: 3 appearances Début: 1 1 away draw v Colchester United, Football League Div 3, 31 Mar 1964 Final game: 2 0 home win v Luton Town, Football League Div 3, 28 Dec 1964 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 2; all competitions 2 WATFORD (apprentice September 1960, professional June 1962); Torquay United (free July 1965); Plymouth Argyle (free July 1968 until September 1969); Plymouth City; Colchester United (February 1971 after 2 months trial); Wealdstone (free July 1972 until career ended by injury April 1975) Football League Career 1963/64 WATFORD 1 Football League Division 3 3rd of /65 WATFORD 2 Football League Division 3 9th of /66 Torquay United 17 Football League Division 4 3rd of 24 (Promoted) 1966/67 Torquay United 27 1 Football League Division 3 7th of /68 Torquay United 29 Football League Division 3 4th of /69 Plymouth Argyle 11 1 Football League Division 3 5th of /70 Plymouth Argyle 3 Football League Division 3 17th of /71 Colchester United Football League Division 4 6th of /72 Colchester United 41 8 Football League Division 4 11th of 24 After captaining Middlesex Schools as a cricketer, Eric Burgess became one of Vicarage Road s first two apprentices. He was a strongly built defender whose career was ended by injury, and he later ran his own business in ladies fashions and promotional merchandise. His brother Les also played for Watford s youth team and for Chesham United in the 1967/68 FA Amateur Cup final at Wembley, before becoming a Queens Park Rangers professional, but without making Football League appearances.

2 R.BURGESS (1897) Full back West Herts Career FA Cup: 1 appearance Sole appearance: 4 7 home defeat v 3rd Grenadier Guards, FA Cup Preliminary Round, 18 Sep 1897 Royal Artillery; WEST HERTS (1897/98) He made his only appearance immediately after being discharged from the army, lining up at left back in that goal drenched FA Cup tie. No other visiting team has ever scored seven times in a cup tie at Watford, and only one other cup game in the club s history has produced eleven goals.

3 Alfred Thomas BURR (1893) Wing half Born Watford, Hertfordshire, 7 August 1871 West Herts Career FA Amateur Cup: 2 appearances Début: 6 2 away win v Norwich Thorpe, FA Amateur Cup 2nd Round, 11 Nov 1893 Final game: 0 2 away defeat v Ilford, FA Amateur Cup 3rd Round, 2 Dec 1893 Longest run of consecutive appearances: all competitions 2 Watford Church Institute; WEST HERTS; Melrose Including five friendly matches, he made seven appearances in the club s first team, all of them as a wing half in the 1893/94 season. Alf Burr became better known in the town, however, for the business which he ran in St Albans Road.

4 E.BUSBY (1897) Winger West Herts Career Southern League: 10 appearances (2 goals) Herts Senior Cup: 2 appearances Début: 2-0 home win v Royal Engineers Training Battalion, Chatham, Southern League Div 2, 6 Feb 1897 Final game: 3-3 away (but played at Watford) draw v 1st Coldstream Guards, Southern League Div 2, 17 Apr 1897 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Southern League 4; all competitions 5 Watford St Mary s; Watford Athletic; WEST HERTS (1896/97) Southern League Career 1896/97 WEST HERTS 10 2 Southern League Division 2 9th of 13 The regular outside-left for a spell late in 1896/97, he was in the side which won the Herts Senior Cup that season but didn t get a look-in once the paid men were brought in the following autumn, when professionalism was adopted. During his firstteam run the committee instructed the club s honorary secretary to tell Busby and Dabber Harrison that... they should take care not to infringe the offside rule....

5 David BUTLER ( ) Full-back Born Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, 23 March 1945 Football League: 168 appearances (2 goals) FA Cup: 8 appearances (1 goal) Football League Cup: 10 appearances Début: 1-1 away draw v Orient, Football League Div 2, 21 Nov 1970 Final game: 0-3 away defeat v Reading, Football League Div 4, 13 Sep 1975 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 65; all competitions 71 Stockton; Workington (amateur August 1964, professional November 1964); WATFORD ( 12,000 November 1970, assistant trainer-coach when career ended by injury November 1975, first-team trainer close season 1976); also Rickmansworth Town coach (for several years by July 1973); Crystal Palace physiotherapist (September 1979); Queens Park Rangers physiotherapist (by December 1980); Tottenham Hotspur physiotherapist (by March 1990); England joint-physiotherapist (February 1994 until July 1996); Australia scout in Europe (January 1977); Crystal Palace coaching staff (close season 1998 until January 1999); Middlesbrough scout; Tottenham Hotspur scout (by March 2015) Football League Career 1964/65 Workington 6 2 Football League Division 3 15th of /66 Workington Football League Division 3 5th of /67 Workington 18 2 Football League Division 3 24th of 24 (Relegated) 1967/68 Workington 45 1 Football League Division 4 23rd of /69 Workington 44 1 Football League Division 4 12th of /70 Workington 44 Football League Division 4 20th of /71 Workington 19 1 Football League Division 4 10th of /71 WATFORD 25 Football League Division 2 18th of /72 WATFORD 33 Football League Division 2 22nd of 22 (Relegated) 1972/73 WATFORD 43 Football League Division 3 19th of /74 WATFORD 46 1 Football League Division 3 7th of /75 WATFORD 19 1 Football League Division 3 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 1975/76 WATFORD 2 Football League Division 4 8th of 24 Replacing the long-established Duncan Welbourne at right-back, Dave Butler was brought to the club by Ken Furphy, who had been his first manager at Workington. He gave consistently good service before a knee injury ended his playing career, but stayed in the game to become a respected physiotherapist who was used by England frequently at youth and later Full international level. He was also appointed as physio for the Rest of the World XI which took part in the Football League s centenary match at Wembley in August 1987.

6 Steven BUTLER ( ) Forward Born Birmingham, Warwickshire, 27 January 1962 Representative Honours England Non-League Football League: appearances (9 goals) FA Cup: 1 appearances Football League Cup: 4+3 appearances Full Members Cup: 1 appearance Anglo-Italian Cup: 1+1 appearances Début: 0-0 away draw v Port Vale, Football League Div 2, 30 Mar 1991 Final game: (as sub) 2-1 home win v Leeds United, Football League Cup 3rd Round, 10 Nov 1992 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 29; all competitions 34 Army; Combined Services; Windsor & Eton; Wokingham Town (close season 1983); Brentford (December 1984); Maidstone United (loan November 1985, free June 1986); WATFORD ( 150,000 March 1991 after brief loan period); AFC Bournemouth (loan December 1992); Cambridge United ( 75,000 December 1992); Gillingham ( 100,000 December 1995); Peterborough United player-coach ( 5,000 October 1998); Stevenage Borough (loan March 1999); Welling United player-coach (June 1999); Gillingham (joint player-coach with A.Hessenthaler July 1999, assistant-manager June 2000); Leicester City first-team coach (July 2000 until October 2001); Maidstone United player-coach (October 2001); Hull City (coach October 2002, non-contract player by August 2004); Ramsgate coach (2007); Maidstone United assistant-manager (November 2010 until March 2011); Football Showcase Elite Training Academy head coach (by January 2012) Football League Career 1984/85 Brentford 3 1 Football League Division 3 13th of /86 Brentford Football League Division 3 10th of /90 Maidstone United Football League Division 4 5th of /91 Maidstone United Football League Division 4 19th of /91 WATFORD 10 1 Football League Division 2 20th of /92 WATFORD Football League Division 2 10th of /93 WATFORD 2 7 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 16th of /93 AFC Bournemouth 1 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 17th of /93 Cambridge United 23 6 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 1993/94 Cambridge United Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 10th of /95 Cambridge United Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 20th of 24 (Relegated) 1995/96 Cambridge United Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 16th of /96 Gillingham Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 1996/97 Gillingham Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 11th of /98 Gillingham Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 8th of /99 Gillingham 4 3 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 4th of /99 Peterborough United Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 9th of /00 Gillingham Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 3rd of 24 (Promoted) Steve Butler was a tall striker who had a good career in army football, earning selection for the Combined Services representative side, and playing in four Army Cup-winning REME teams in five years. He was a member of the Maidstone United side which won promotion to the Football League in a season in which he and a colleague were joint-top-scorers in the Conference, and he won three Non-League caps. He went on to record the highest individual tally in Maidstone s three seasons at the higher level. His scoring rate at Watford was a disappointment particularly at home, where he scored only once but he amassed impressive totals with both Maidstone and Cambridge United in the lower divisions, and hit an extraordinary eight in two League games, 48 hours apart, at Easter His last League appearance was as a substitute in a 1999/2000 play-off final at Wembley, where he scored an extra-time equalizer which led the way for Gillingham to win promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in its history.

7 John Tinsley BUTTON (1897) Wing half Born Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1874 Died St Albans, Hertfordshire, 24 July 1955 West Herts Career Southern League: 3 appearances Début: 1 2 away defeat v Wycombe Wanderers, Southern League Div 2, 9 Jan 1897 Final game: 3 3 away (but played at Watford) draw v 1st Coldstream Guards, Southern League Div 2, 17 Apr 1897 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Southern League 2; all competitions 2 Watford Church Institute (by September 1891); WEST HERTS; Melrose Southern League Career 1896/97 WEST HERTS 3 Southern League Division 2 9th of 13 This son (one of 12 offspring) of a Primitive Methodist minister was the appointed reserve team captain for 1897/98. A season earlier, the last of his three first team appearances at wing half was surrounded by complications. The Coldstreams were fined two guineas for scratching on the morning of the original date for the fixture, and then forfeited home advantage for an undisclosed amount, so that this away game took place at Cassio Road.

8 George William BYERS (2015) Midfielder Born Goodmayes, London, 29 May 1996 Representative Honours Scotland Youth Football League: 0+1 appearance Sole appearance: (as sub) 5-0 home win v Charlton Athletic, Football League Championship, 17 Jan 2015 WATFORD (Academy from age 8, scholar July 2012, professional May 2014); Swansea City (free July 2016) Football League Career 2014/15 WATFORD 1 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 2nd of 24 (Promoted) A product of the club s Academy, midfielder George Byers represented Scotland at Under-16 and Under-17 levels before getting a brief first-team run as an 18-year-old substitute with the club already four goals up.

9 David Stuart BYRNE ( ) Winger Born Hammersmith, London, 5 Mar 1961 Football League: 16+1 appearances (2 goals) Full Members Cup: 1 appearance Début: 1-1 home draw v Bristol Rovers, Football League Div 2, 17 Nov 1990 Final game: (as sub) 2-1 away win v Middlesbrough, Football League Div 2, 23 Mar 1991 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 8; all competitions 8 Brentford (schoolboy); Southall; Hounslow; Chiswick Albion; Harrow Borough; Hayes (1981/82); Hounslow; Kingstonian (October 1983); Gillingham (July 1985); Millwall ( 5,000 July 1986); Cambridge United (loan September 1988); Blackburn Rovers (loan Febuary 1989); Plymouth Argyle (free March 1989); Bristol Rovers (loan February 1990); WATFORD ( 50,000 November 1990, contract settled by mutual agreement January 1983); Reading (loan August 1991); Fulham (loan January 1992); Shamrock Rovers (January 1993); St Johnstone (March 1993); Partick Thistle (free July 1993); Walsall (loan February 1994); St Mirren (February 1995); Tottenham Hotspur (non-contract June 1995); Ayr United (August 1995); Albion Rovers player-coach (player-exchange January 1996 until close season 1997); Wolverhampton Wanderers and Reading scout (by December 1998); Plymouth Argyle youth-team coach; also Plymouth College director of football; a football agent by March 2002; Torquay United coaching staff; Swindon Town youth-team coach November 2006, caretaker-manager December 2007, assistant-manager January 2008, caretaker-manager November 2008, assistant-manager December 2008, head of player development June 2009 until August 2010); Sheffield Wednesday (academy head coach July 2012, academy recruitment staff July 2013); Yeovil Town head youth coach (July 2015 until May 2016) Football League, Scottish Premier League and Scottish League Career 1985/86 Gillingham Football League Division 3 5th of /87 Millwall Football League Division 2 16th of /88 Millwall Football League Division 2 1st of 23 (Promoted) 1988/89 Cambridge United 4 Football League Division 4 8th of /89 Blackburn Rovers 4 Football League Division 2 5th of /89 Plymouth Argyle 13 1 Football League Division 2 18th of /90 Plymouth Argyle Football League Division 2 16th of /90 Bristol Rovers 2 Football League Division 3 1st of 24 (Promoted) 1990/91 Plymouth Argyle 11 3 Football League Division 2 18th of /91 WATFORD Football League Division 2 20th of /92 Reading 7 2 Football League Division 3 12th of /92 Fulham 5 Football League Division 3 9th of /93 St Johnstone 12 Scottish Premier League 6th of /94 Partick Thistle 21 2 Scottish Premier League 9th of /94 Walsall 5 Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 10th of /95 Partick Thistle 11 1 Scottish Premier League 8th of /95 St Mirren 6 Scottish League Division 1 (2nd tier) 7th of /96 Ayr United 8 2 Scottish League Division 2 (3rd tier) 6th of /96 Albion Rovers 17 1 Scottish League Division 3 (4th tier) 10th of /97 Albion Rovers 29 Scottish League Division 3 (4th tier) 5th of 10 The final act in first-team football of no other Watford player has been charged with such significance as David Byrne s spectacular 90th-minute winner at Middlesbrough with his last kick of the match. He didn t know it at the time, but despite remaining with the club for nearly two more years he never appeared in the first team again, instead being converted from a winger into a reserve-team full-back. That goal sparked a remarkable run of results, by means of which what had seemed certain relegation was averted. The Tottenham Hotspur signing in 1995 was solely to use him as a member of a bizarre squad cobbled together to represent the club in the monstrously irrelevant pre-season Inter-Toto Cup. Byrne s career of League appearances for ten English clubs and five in Scotland (all in the space of twelve seasons) has very few equals.

10 Nigel Ian CALLAGHAN ( ) Winger Born Changi, Singapore, 12 September 1962 Representative Honours England Under-21 & B Football League: appearances (42 goals, including 1 penalty) FA Cup: 25+1 appearances (3 goals) Football League Cup: 20+3 appearances (4 goals) Football League Trophy: 8 appearances (2 goals) UEFA Cup: 6 appearances (1 goal) Full Members Cup: 1 appearance Début: 4-0 home win v Burnley, Football League Div 2, 3 May 1980 Final game: (as sub) 2-3 home defeat v Bristol City, Football League Div 2, 11 May 1991 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 46; all competitions 57 St Michael s School; Watford & District Primary Schools; Hertfordshire Schools; also Scorpions (1971 until 1977); WATFORD (schoolboy November 1977, apprentice May 1979, professional July 1980); Derby County ( 140,000 February 1987); Aston Villa ( 500,000 February 1989); Derby County (loan September 1990); WATFORD (loan March 1991); Huddersfield Town (loan January 1992); Stafford Rangers (free March 1992 released January 1993); Millwall Reserves (January 1993); Walton & Hersham (October 1993); also Leavesden Aerodrome S&S on Sundays (October 1993); Berkhamsted Town (December 1993); Hellenic (South Africa) player-coach (February 1994 until March 1994); trained with Baldock Town (December 1994); Borrowash Victoria (February 1995); Beaconsfield SYCOB (October 1995); Leavesden Sports (by November 1996); Kings Langley (briefly October 1997) Football League Career 1979/80 WATFORD 1 Football League Division 2 18th of /81 WATFORD Football League Division 2 9th of /82 WATFORD Football League Division 2 2nd of 22 (Promoted) 1982/83 WATFORD 41 9 Football League Division 1 2nd of /84 WATFORD Football League Division 1 11th of /85 WATFORD Football League Division 1 11th of /86 WATFORD Football League Division 1 12th of /87 WATFORD Football League Division 1 9th of /87 Derby County 18 4 Football League Division 2 1st of 22 (Promoted) 1987/88 Derby County 40 4 Football League Division 1 15th of /89 Derby County 18 2 Football League Division 1 5th of /89 Aston Villa Football League Division 1 17th of /90 Aston Villa 7 1 Football League Division 1 2nd of /91 Aston Villa 2 Football League Division 1 17th of /91 Derby County 12 1 Football League Division 1 20th of 20 (Relegated) 1990/91 WATFORD Football League Division 2 20th of /92 Huddersfield Town 8 Football League Division 3 3rd of 24 Although Nigel Callaghan was born in Singapore, at Changi RAF station, his family returned to Garston when he was about two weeks old. He made his League début as an apprentice and became an integral part of the club s successes in the early 1980s. Flourishing on the right wing as a gifted striker of the ball, he unleashed shots and crosses in profusion, and perhaps could have achieved more before allowing his career to drift. The managers of his first two non-league clubs were both former Watford colleagues: Dennis Booth at Stafford Rangers and Neil Price at Walton & Hersham. He was a member of the England team which won the UEFA Under-21 tournament in 1983/84, as was Steve Hodge.

11 Joseph William Herbert CALVERT (1948) Goalkeeper Born Beighton, Derbyshire, 3 February 1907 Died Leicester, 23 December 1999 Football League: 5 appearances Début: 1-1 home draw v Northampton Town, Football League Div 3 (South), 31 Jan 1948 Final game: 0-3 home defeat v Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Football League Div 3 (South), 28 Feb 1948 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 5; all competitions 5 Owston Park Rangers; Bullcroft Colliery; Frickley Colliery (October 1930); Bristol Rovers (May 1931); Leicester City (May 1932); Northampton Town guest player during Second World War; RAF representative matches in India & Burma (1943); WATFORD ( 4,750 for Calvert, T.Eggleston, T.W.Hartley & J.Osborne, January 1948); Brush Sports (free July 1948) Football League Career 1931/32 Bristol Rovers 42 Football League Division 3 (South) 18th of /33 Leicester City 8 Football League Division 1 19th of /36 Leicester City 2 Football League Division 2 6th of /37 Leicester City 5 Football League Division 2 1st of 22 (Promoted) 1937/38 Leicester City 8 Football League Division 1 16th of /39 Leicester City 11 Football League Division 1 22nd of 22 (Relegated) 1946/47 Leicester City 32 Football League Division 2 9th of /48 Leicester City 6 Football League Division 2 9th of /48 WATFORD 5 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of 22 One of five players signed simultaneously from Filbert Street (including one on loan), former coalminer Joe Calvert briefly replaced Tommy Rigg in goal for a run of five games which constituted his entire first-team career at Vicarage Road. He was the oldest of three players who made Football League appearances for Leicester City at the age of 40, and all of them also played for Watford, the others being Chris Powell and Kevin Phillips. And an earlier ex-leicester goalkeeper, Jim McLaren, was 41 when he made his final League appearance for Watford.

12 Alessandro CAMPANA ( ) Midfielder Born Harrow, Middlesex, 11 October 1988 Football League Cup: 1+2 appearances (1 goal) Début: (as sub) 3-1 home win v Notts County, Football League Cup 1st Round, 23 Aug 2005 Final game: 0-2 away defeat v Southend United, Football League Cup 2nd Round, 28 Aug 2007 Longest run of consecutive appearances: all competitions 1 WATFORD (scholar July 2005, professional April 2007); Wealdstone (loan November 2007); Grays Athletic (free August 2008); Wivenhoe Town (free October 2008); Thurrock (free November 2008); Enfield Town (free February 2009); Hemel Hempstead Town (August 2009); also Mangans on Sundays (by September 2009); Brighton Electricity; Hemel Hempstead Town (July 2012); Kings Langley (September 2013); Berkhamsted Town (November 2015) The third-youngest player to have represented Watford in a competitive first-team game, Alex Campana appeared in three Football League Cup ties, and scored in a 3-0 victory over Gillingham. Playing subsequently in local Sunday football for Mangans he had a prolific scoring run in 2009/10 which included a sequence of 30 goals in six games.

13 Harry Joseph CAPELL ( ) Full-back Born Watford, Hertfordshire, 20 November 1865 Died Broadwater, Sussex, 9 September 1940 Watford Rovers Career FA Cup: 4 appearances Herts County Cup: 7 appearances Début: 0-1 home defeat v Swindon Town, FA Cup 1st Round, 23 Oct 1886 Final game: 3-4 defeat v Hoddesdon (at Hertford), Herts County Cup Final, 17 Mar 1888 Longest run of consecutive appearances: all competitions 11 In addition to the cup games, Capell featured frequently at full-back from the age of 16 (perhaps only 15, the very earliest line-ups being unknown) for six seasons from 1882/83, appearing altogether in at least 48 friendly matches. His father ran an upholstery business in Watford High Street, and he himself became a qualified architect and surveyor.

14 Étienne CAPOUE (2015- ) Midfielder Born Niort, France, 11 July 1988 Representative Honours France Youth, Under-21 & Full (to end of 2016/17 season) FA Premier League: 70 appearances (7 goals) FA Cup: 4 appearances Football League Cup: 0+1 appearance Début: 2-2 away draw v Everton, FA Premier League, 8 Aug 2015 Longest run of consecutive appearances: FA Premier League 33; all competitions 24 Chamois Niortais (France) (1995); Chauray (France) (2002); Angers SCO (France) (2004); Toulouse (France) (2005, professional February 2008); Tottenham Hotspur ( 9.3 million August 2013); WATFORD ( 6.3 million July 2015) FA Premier League Career 2013/14 Tottenham Hotspur FA Premier League 6th of /15 Tottenham Hotspur 11 1 FA Premier League 5th of /16 WATFORD 33 FA Premier League 13th of /17 WATFORD 37 7 FA Premier League 17th of 20

15 Clarke James CARLISLE ( ) Centre-half Born Preston, Lancashire, 14 October 1979 Representative Honours England Under-21 Football League & FA Premier League: 34+2 appearances (3 goals) FA Cup: 2 appearances Football League Cup: 2 appearances (2 goals) Début: 1-2 home defeat v Preston North End, Football League Championship, 6 Aug 2005 Final game: 0-1 away defeat v Sheffield United, FA Premier League, 28 Apr 2007 Longest run of consecutive appearances: FA Premier League/Football League 11; all competitions 13 Lancashire Under-15; Blackpool (schoolboy February 1995, trainee July 1996, professional August 1997); Queens Park Rangers ( 250,000 May 2000); Leeds United (free June 2004); WATFORD ( 100,000 August 2005 after brief loan); Luton Town (loan March 2007); Burnley ( 200,000 August 2007); Preston North End (loan July 2011); Northampton Town (loan January 2012); York City (free August 2012); Northampton Town (loan November 2012, free January 2013, retired May 2013) Football League & FA Premier League Career 1997/98 Blackpool Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 12th of /99 Blackpool Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 14th of /00 Blackpool 43 4 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 22nd of 24 (Relegated) 2000/01 Queens Park Rangers 27 3 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 2002/03 Queens Park Rangers Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 4th of /04 Queens Park Rangers Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 2004/05 Leeds United Football League Championship (2nd tier) 14th of /06 WATFORD Football League Championship (2nd tier) 3rd of 24 (Promoted) 2006/07 Luton Town 4 1 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 2006/07 WATFORD 4 FA Premier League 20th of 20 (Relegated) 2007/08 Burnley Football League Championship (2nd tier) 13th of /09 Burnley 39 3 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 5th of 24 (Promoted) 2009/10 Burnley 27 FA Premier League 18th of 20 (Relegated) 2010/11 Burnley Football League Championship (2nd tier) 8th of /12 Preston North End 20 3 Football League Division 1 (3rd tier) 15th of /12 Northampton Town 18 1 Football League Division 2 (4th tier) 20th of /13 York City 10 Football League Division 2 (4th tier) 17th of /13 Northampton Town 29 3 Football League Division 2 (4th tier) 6th of 24 The brainiest footballer on the planet? Well, he s somewhere up there, possessor of a well-documented intellect which extends some way beyond a grasp of the offside law s finer points, and a practising Christian. A strapping defender whose collection of red cards owes much to a lack of pace and nothing at all to any thuggish tendency, Clarke Carlisle sees his role as that of a thoughtful rather than aggressive centre-half. An alcohol-related mid-career crisis was overcome before he reached Vicarage Road signed by Aidy Boothroyd, who had worked with him at Leeds United the previous season, in which he scored in both League meetings with Watford. Boothroyd later recruited him three times for Northampton Town twice on loan and then on a free transfer. In November 2010 Carlisle succeeded Chris Powell as chairman of the Professional Footballers Association.

16 Thomas Albert Edward CARPENTER ( ) Goalkeeper Born Carshalton, Surrey, 11 March 1925 Football League: 4 appearances Début: 2 3 away defeat v Swindon Town, Football League Div 3 (South), 18 Nov 1950 Final game: 0 3 away defeat v Bristol Rovers, Football League Div 3 (South), 23 Apr 1951 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 2; all competitions 2 Harrow Town (1940); Wembley (1946); WATFORD (amateur November 1946); Harrow Town (1948); WATFORD (professional November 1950); Headington United (free close season 1951); Ashford, Kent (mid 1952/53 until career ended by injury about a year later) Football League Career 1950/51 WATFORD 4 Football League Division 3 (South) 23rd of 24 Soon after joining Wembley at the time of that club s foundation in 1946, he began his association with Vicarage Road more than four years before eventually signing professional forms at the age of 25. Engaged on a part time basis, Tommy Carpenter understudied Geoff Morton, for whom he deputised in goal on four occasions before being released. His daughter Christine was to marry a future Watford manager, Dave Bassett.

17 David CARR (1965) Forward Born Wheatley Hill, County Durham, 19 January 1937 Died Blackhall, County Durham, 12 November 2013 Football League: 10 appearances (3 goals) Début: 0-3 away defeat v Mansfield Town, Football League Div 3, 20 Feb 1965 Final game: 3-2 home win v York City, Football League Div 3, 30 Oct 1965 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 6; all competitions 6 Ludworth; Huddersfield Town youth team; Spennymoor United; Darlington (May 1957); Workington ( 1,500 July 1962); WATFORD ( 2,000 plus K.Oliver February 1965 until retirement July 1966) Football League Career 1957/58 Darlington Football League Division 3 (North) 20th of /59 Darlington Football League Division 4 16th of /60 Darlington 23 9 Football League Division 4 15th of /61 Darlington 13 6 Football League Division 4 7th of /62 Darlington 19 8 Football League Division 4 13th of /63 Workington Football League Division 4 10th of /64 Workington Football League Division 4 3rd of 24 (Promoted) 1964/65 Workington 27 7 Football League Division 3 15th of /65 WATFORD 6 1 Football League Division 3 9th of /66 WATFORD 4 2 Football League Division 3 12th of 24 A goalscoring forward who played for Huddersfield Town s youth team with Denis Law and became very well-known to Ken Furphy, who played alongside him at Darlington and subsequently signed him for both Workington and Watford. Dave Carr top-scored in the Cumberland club s promotion side, and the following season, just before moving to Vicarage Road, took part in its greatest-ever triumph, a 5-1 Football League Cup victory at Blackburn Rovers after beating Barrow 9-1 in a earlier round. His career was ended by serious injuries sustained in a car crash and he returned to his trade as a bricklayer.

18 James Edward Charles CARR ( ) Winger Born Maryhill, Glasgow, 18 December 1893 Died Harrow, London, 26 June 1980 Southern League: 18 appearances Southern Charity Cup: 1 appearance Début: 3-3 home draw v Reading, Southern League Div 1, 15 Mar 1913 Final game: 0-1 away defeat v Merthyr Town, Southern League Div 1, 7 Mar 1914 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Southern League 13; all competitions 13 Pinner; Watford Orient (close season 1912); Hertfordshire (1912/13); WATFORD (amateur February 1913, professional August 1913); West Ham United (free May 1914); Kilmarnock & Portsmouth guest player during First World War; Reading (by November 1916); Southampton (June 1923); Swansea Town (May 1926); Queens Park Rangers (October 1927, released close season 1928) Southern League & Football League Career 1912/13 WATFORD 3 Southern League Division 1 14th of /14 WATFORD 15 Southern League Division 1 18th of /15 West Ham United 9 1 Southern League Division 1 4th of /20 Reading 35 1 Southern League Division 1 7th of /21 Reading 36 4 Football League Division 3 20th of /22 Reading 40 3 Football League Division 3 (South) 13th of /23 Reading 40 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 19th of /24 Southampton 24 4 Football League Division 2 5th of /25 Southampton 28 2 Football League Division 2 7th of /26 Southampton 34 4 Football League Division 2 14th of /27 Swansea Town 7 1 Football League Division 2 12th of 22 Jimmy Carr was a winger who played for Hertfordshire and, with his brother Jack, was a founder-member of Watford Orient FC. He was still an amateur when he made the first three of his Southern League appearanced for Watford. In July 1927 he was granted a permit to play as an amateur for Southall, but was prevented from doing so when the Athenian League then decided to bar ex-professionals. From that year he ran the Red Lion Hotel at Southall and was still doing so in 1954, when he represented England at bowls in the Empire Games in Vancouver.

19 André Martin CARRILLO (2017- ) Winger (Full name André Martin CARRILLO DIAZ) Born Lima, Peru, 14 June 1991 Representative Honours Peru Full Début: (as sub) 0-0 home draw v Brighton & Hove Albion, FA Premier League, 26 Aug 2017 Esther Grande de Bentín (Peru) (2004); Alianza Lima (Peru) (2007); Sporting CP (Portugal) (May 2011); Benfica (Portugal) (July 2016); WATFORD ( 1 million loan Aug 2017) FA Premier League Career 2017/18 WATFORD

20 John Henry CARTER ( ) Centre forward Born Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, 11 November 1910 Died Reading, Berkshire, 2 July 1992 Football League: 15 appearances (7 goals) FA Cup: 2 appearances (1 goal) Début: 1 1 away draw v Cardiff City, Football League Div 3 (South), 14 Apr 1933 Final game: 1 1 home draw v Walsall, FA Cup 2nd Round, 8 Dec 1934 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 8; all competitions 8 Hazells; Watson & Viney s; Aylesbury United; WATFORD (amateur November 1931, also professional November 1931); Reading (August 1935, initially on a month s trial); Ipswich Town (July 1936); Yeovil & Petters United (August 1938) Football League Career 1932/33 WATFORD 3 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 11th of /34 WATFORD 10 4 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of /35 WATFORD 2 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 6th of /36 Reading 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 3rd of 22 His first team appearances as Billy Lane s understudy at centre forward were limited, but he scored in nearly half of them. After leaving Watford, a five goal performance as a trialist in Reading s reserve team helped Jack Carter to obtain an engagement at Elm Park, where he was employed as a steward four decades later. His move to Ipswich Town, then in the Southern League, was a signing by former Watford playing colleague Mick O Brien, shortly after the Irishman s appointment as the Suffolk club s manager. The Southern League championship was won in his first season, and Carter was the leading scorer.

21 Wilfred CARTER ( ) Wing-half Born Annesley, Nottinghamshire, 19 June 1896 Died Watford, Hertfordshire, 1 November 1975 Football League: 126 appearances (4 goals) FA Cup: 5 appearances Début: 3-0 home win v Southend United, Football League Div 3, 25 Sep 1920 Final game: 0-0 home draw v Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Football League Div 3 (South), 21 Nov 1925) Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 23; all competitions 25 Bolsover Colliery; army football during First World War; WATFORD (June 1920, released close season 1926); Sutton Court (July 1926); Callowland School football coach Football League Career 1920/21 WATFORD 18 Football League Division 3 6th of /22 WATFORD 30 Football League Division 3 (South) 7th of /23 WATFORD 24 3 Football League Division 3 (South) 10th of /24 WATFORD 28 Football League Division 3 (South) 20th of /25 WATFORD 24 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 11th of /26 WATFORD 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of 22 An accomplished wing-half for Watford throughout the early-1920s who also played first-class cricket for Derbyshire over the same period (the county requested, and were granted, his release two weeks before the end of the 1922/23 football season), and in June 1939 scored 206 not out in 105 minutes for Watford LMS. Bill Carter (he also answered to Wilf ) was a cricket pro in Scotland and Repton School s coach before being employed as football coach, and later caretaker, at Callowland School back in Watford. He died in Shrodells Hospital, next-door to the football club in Vicarage Road.

22 Norman CASE ( ) Centre forward Born Prescot, Lancashire, 1 September 1925 Died Watford, Hertfordshire, 1973 Representative Honours Irish League Watford Career Football League: 10 appearances (4 goals) Début: 1 3 home defeat v Southend United, Football League Div 3 (South), 16 Dec 1950 Final game: 1 3 home defeat v Walsall, Football League Div 3 (South), 5 May 1951 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 8; all competitions 8 Career Path Sheffield United (August 1948); Leyton Orient (free October 1948); Rochdale (November 1948); Cheltenham Town (free February 1949); Ards; Sunderland (October 1949); WATFORD (December 1950); Yeovil Town (loan August 1951); Rochdale ( small fee February 1952); Cheltenham Town (close season 1952); Canterbury City (August 1953) Football League Career Apps 1949/ / / /52 Sunderland Sunderland WATFORD Rochdale Subs Goals 2 4 League Status and Final Position Football League Division 1 3rd of 22 Football League Division 1 12th of 22 Football League Division 3 (South) 23rd of 24 Football League Division 3 (North) 21st of 24 Norman Case moved to Sunderland shortly after being capped by the Irish League (he scored against the Scottish League in an 8 1 defeat) following a five goal performance for Ards against Coleraine. After a run at centre forward when he first arrived at Vicarage Road he was transfer listed at 1,000 at the end of the season, but spent much of the next winter on loan to Yeovil Town, for whom he scored 23 times. Known as Norman. Birth & death (M1973) indexes OK probate nothing. Sheff Utd registration cancelled don t know date. Watford transfer listed him at 1,000 cs 1950 & cs No obit notice in Observer. Denis Clarebrough says he played in Sheffield Utd s trial match and a few reserve games, but the Sheffield papers give no inkling as to his origins. Irish Lge v Scottish Lge 7/9/1949 he scored the IL s only goal in an 8 1 defeat. Scored 5 for Ards v Coleraine (9 1) 20/8/1949.

23 Darren Mark CASKEY (1995) Midfielder Born Basildon, Essex, 21 August 1974 Representative Honours England Schools & Youth Football League: 6 appearances (1 goal) Début: 2-4 away defeat v Portsmouth, Football League Div 1, 28 Oct 1995 Final game: 0-2 home defeat v Norwich City, Football League Div 1, 26 Nov 1995 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 6; all competitions 6 Tottenham Hotspur (trained from age 10, schoolboy December 1988, trainee August 1990, professional March 1992); also FA School of Excellence; WATFORD (loan October 1995); Reading ( 700,000 February 1996); Notts County (free June 2001); Bristol City (non-contract March 2004); Hornchurch (August 2004, released when the club s backers went bust November 2004); Peterborough United (non-contract November 2004, monthly contract December 2004); Bath City (January 2005); Havant & Waterlooville (February 2005); Virginia Beach Mariners (USA) (close season 2005); Rushden & Diamonds (free January 2006); Kettering Town (free July 2006); Halesowen Town (loan October 2007, signed by February 2009); Ilkeston Town (player-coach 2009, assistant manager by September 2010); Gateshead assistant manager (September 2013); Wrexham assistant manager (May 2015) FA Premier League & Football League Career 1993/94 Tottenham Hotspur FA Premier League 15th of /95 Tottenham Hotspur 1 3 FA Premier League 7th of /96 WATFORD 6 1 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 1995/96 Tottenham Hotspur 3 FA Premier League 8th of /96 Reading 15 2 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 19th of /97 Reading 25 9 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 18th of /98 Reading 19 4 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 24th of 24 (Relegated) 1998/99 Reading 42 7 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 11th of /00 Reading Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 10th of /01 Reading Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 3rd of /02 Notts County Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 19th of /03 Notts County Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 15th of /04 Notts County Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 2004/05 Peterborough United 2 2 Football League Division 1 (3rd tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 2005/06 Rushden & Diamonds Football League Division 2 (4th tier) 24th of 24 (Relegated) He captained England to success in the 1992/93 European Under-18 championship, in which he scored the only goal in the final from the penalty spot, and had more than 30 Premier League appearances under his belt before a loan spell at Vicarage Road. Darren Caskey scored on his home début for Watford, and the characteristics of his assiduous link-play bore a marked resemblance to those of one of his predecessors, Kevin Richardson. Jake Forster-Caskey, a son of Caskey who became a stepson of Nicky Forster (Brentford, Reading, etc) appeared in a Football League match for Brighton & Hove Albion only 13 days past his sixteenth birthday.

24 Keith Barrington CASSELLS ( ) Forward Born Islington, London, 10 July 1957 Football League: 6+6 appearances FA Cup: 1+1 appearances Football League Cup: 2+1 appearances Début: (as sub) 3-0 home win v Dagenham, FA Cup 1st Round, 25 Nov 1978 Final game: 1-3 away defeat v Bristol Rovers, Football League Div 2, 4 Nov 1980 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 6; all competitions 6 Wembley; WATFORD (trial May 1977, 500 October 1977); Peterborough United (loan January 1980); Oxford United (valued at 50,000 in part-exchange for L.Taylor November 1980); Southampton ( 80,000 March 1982); Brentford ( 25,000 February 1983); Mansfield Town ( 17,000 August 1985); Hertfordshire Police (December 1989) Football League Career 1978/79 WATFORD 3 Football League Division 3 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 1979/80 WATFORD 5 2 Football League Division 2 18th of /80 Peterborough United 8 Football League Division 4 8th of /81 WATFORD 1 1 Football League Division 2 9th of /81 Oxford United Football League Division 3 14th of /82 Oxford United Football League Division 3 5th of /82 Southampton Football League Division 1 7th of /83 Southampton Football League Division 1 12th of /83 Brentford 16 8 Football League Division 3 9th of /84 Brentford Football League Division 3 20th of /85 Brentford Football League Division 3 13th of /86 Mansfield Town Football League Division 4 3rd of 24 (Promoted) 1986/87 Mansfield Town Football League Division 3 10th of /88 Mansfield Town 40 9 Football League Division 3 19th of /89 Mansfield Town Football League Division 3 15th of 24 Keith Cassells (the accent is on the second syllable of the surname) was a lively forward who couldn t establish himself in Watford s first team, but made progress elsewhere. He scored a hat-trick in his first Football League game for Mansfield Town, whom he helped to win the Associate Members Cup at Wembley Stadium, a stone s throw from where his career began. He joined the Hertfordshire Constabulary in 1989, subsequently resuming match-day employment at Vicarage Road this time as a uniformed PC and later rose to the rank of detective sergeant. In the aforementioned final at Wembley, Cassells failed with a shoot-out penalty-kick it was saved by a future Watford goalkeeper, Keith Waugh, who himself also later joined the police and served in uniform at a Watford match.

25 Marco CASSETTI ( ) Defender Born Brescia, Italy, 29 May 1977 Representative Honours Italy Full Football League: 71+5 appearances (1 goal) FA Cup: 2+1 appearances Football League Cup: 1+1 appearances Début: (as sub) 1-5 away defeat v Derby County, Football League Championship, 1 Sep 2012 Final game: 1-4 home defeat v Huddersfield Town, Football League Championship, 3 May 2014 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 18; all competitions 18 Montichiarri (Italy) (1996); Lumezzane (Italy) (1998); Hellas Verona (Italy) (2000); Lecce (Italy) (2003); Roma (Italy) ( 1.5 million, 2006, plus a further 851,500); Udinese (Italy) (free 2012); WATFORD (loan August 2012, free June 2013, released close season 2014); Calcio Como (Italy) (January 2015) Football League Career 2012/13 WATFORD 39 2 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 3rd of /14 WATFORD Football League Championship (2nd tier) 13th of 24 A vastly experienced defender, equally effective at full-back or in a more central position, Marco Cassetti was a regular contributor to Watford s ultimately thwarted attempt to reach the FA Premier League in 2012/13. His play was always conspicuous for more mobility than is the norm for a 35-year-old. Capped five times, he was the first Lecce player to be honoured by Italy at senior level.

26 Francis James Augustine CASSIDY (1983) Midfielder Born Watford, Hertfordshire, 20 August 1964 UEFA Cup: 0+1 appearance Sole appearance: (as sub) 0 4 away defeat v Sparta Prague, UEFA Cup 3rd Round 2nd Leg, 7 Dec 1983 WATFORD (schoolboy June 1979, apprentice June 1980, professional May 1982); Plymouth Argyle (loan February 1984); Peterborough United (free June 1984); Bishops Stortford (free close season 1986); Harrow Borough (by October 1988); Chesham United ( 15,000 November 1989); Harlow Town (loan March 1991); Aylesbury United ( 4 figure fee August 1991); Hayes (1991/92); Yeading; Berkhamsted Town (1994/95); Saffron Walden Town (January 1995); Tring Town (by April 1995); Hemel Hempstead Town (close season 1995); London Colney (by April 1996); Hemel Hempstead Town (October 1996); Tring Town (close season 1997); Kings Langley (close season 1998); Watford Academy staff (by 2006) Football League Career 1983/84 Plymouth Argyle 1 Football League Division 3 19th of /85 Peterborough United 31 7 Football League Division 4 11th of /86 Peterborough United Football League Division 4 17th of 24 One of the relatively few Watford born players of modern times to play in the club s first team, Francis Cassidy was even more unusual unique, in fact in playing out the whole of his senior Watford career more than six hundred miles from Vicarage Road. It amounted to a few minutes of substitute action on a bitterly cold winter s evening in Prague. He was a midfield player who took part in the club s 1981/82 FA Youth Cup win.

27 Craig George CATHCART (2009- ) Centre-half Born Belfast, 6 February 1989 Representative Honours Northern Ireland Youth, Under-21 & Full (to end of 2016/17 season) Football League: 87+4 appearances (4 goals) FA Cup: 6 appearances Début: 3-3 home draw v Leicester City, Football League Championship, 19 Sep 2009 Longest run of consecutive appearances: FA Premier League 27; all competitions 27 Glengormley High School; Carnmoney Colts (1999); St Andrew s Boys Club; Manchester United (regular trials from age 11, the club s Belfast School of Excellence, scholar July 2005, professional February 2006); Royal Antwerp (Belgium) (loan September 2007); Plymouth Argyle (loan August 2008); WATFORD (loan September 2009); Blackpool ( 350,000 August 2010); WATFORD (free June 2014) Football League & FA Premier League Career 2008/09 Plymouth Argyle Football League Championship (2nd tier) 21st of /10 WATFORD 12 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 16th of /11 Blackpool FA Premier League 19th of 20 (Relegated) 2011/12 Blackpool 27 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 5th of /13 Blackpool Football League Championship (2nd tier) 15th of /14 Blackpool Football League Championship (2nd tier) 20th of /15 WATFORD Football League Championship (2nd tier) 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 2015/16 WATFORD FA Premier League 13th of /17 WATFORD 13 2 FA Premier League 17th of 20 Craig Cathcart captained the Manchester United team which reached the FA Youth Cup final in 2006/07, but missed both legs of the final the first owing to a call-up to the first-team squad and the second through injury. Although not a commanding figure as Watford s on-loan centre-half, he gained Football League experience during his Vicarage Road spell, and with Plymouth Argyle the previous season, which helped his development while still in his teens. On his return to Watford five years later he was a much more mature and assertive defender.

28 George Charles CATLEUGH ( ) Wing half Born Horden, County Durham, 11 June 1932 Died Hillingdon, London, 5 April 1996 Football League: 293 appearances (15 goals) FA Cup: 19 appearances (1 goal) Southern Floodlight Cup: 9 appearances (1 goal) Football League Cup: 6 appearances Début: 1 1 home draw v Northampton Town, Football League Div 3 (South), 21 Sep 1954 Final game: 2 2 home draw v Brentford, Football League Div 3, 21 Apr 1964 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 113; all competitions 129 Kings Lynn (amateur); Nuneaton Borough (amateur); Bury (amateur 1953/54); WATFORD (professional May 1954); Folkestone Town (free July 1965 until at least April 1968) Football League Career 1954/55 WATFORD 20 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 7th of /56 WATFORD 24 3 Football League Division 3 (South) 21st of /57 WATFORD 46 4 Football League Division 3 (South) 11th of /58 WATFORD 45 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 16th of 24 (Relegated) 1958/59 WATFORD 46 2 Football League Division 4 15th of /60 WATFORD 41 Football League Division 4 4th of 24 (Promoted) 1960/61 WATFORD 14 Football League Division 3 4th of /62 WATFORD 22 2 Football League Division 3 17th of /63 WATFORD 4 Football League Division 3 17th of /64 WATFORD 23 Football League Division 3 3rd of /65 WATFORD 8 Football League Division 3 9th of 24 A popular workhorse who gave Watford eleven seasons of full hearted commitment, mostly at right half, having come to the club s notice when in opposition as the only amateur in Nuneaton Borough s convincing FA Cup win in George Catleugh s career ended when he suffered a broken leg while playing for Folkestone Town against Barnet a repetition of the injury sustained during his Watford service in (His surname was pronounced locally as Catlow, but this error almost certainly arose from a misinterpretation of the County Durham born player s accent in enunciating Catlew.)

29 Walter CATLIN (1898) Centre forward / Inside forward Bucks & Contiguous Counties League: 1 appearance Sole appearance: 2 1 away win v Wycombe Wanderers, Bucks & Contiguous Counties League Div 1, 5 Dec 1898 Luton Town (October 1897); WATFORD (May 1898) Southern League Career 1897/98 Luton Town 1 1 Football League Division 2 8th of 16 After scoring in his only Football League game, at the end of his one season as a professional with Luton Town, he spent the following winter as a Watford player. He was selected at inside right or centre forward for three friendly games and a Bucks & Continguous Counties League fixture at Wycombe, but failed to get on the scoresheet.

30 Aleksandrs CAUNA (2009) Winger Born Daugavpils, Latvia, 19 January 1988 Representative Honours Latvia Full Football League: 2+3 appearances (1 goal) Début: (as sub) 1-2 away defeat v Plymouth Argyle, Football League Championship, 3 Mar 2009 Final game: (as sub) 3-1 home win v Derby County, Football League Championship, 3 May 2009 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 2; all competitions 2 Dinaburg (Latvia); JFK Olimps/ASK Riga (Latvia); Skonto Riga (Latvia); Chelsea trial (September 2008); Sunderland trial (November 2008); WATFORD (loan January 2009 until close season 2009); Blackpool trial (August 2010); CSKA Moscow (Russia) (loan February 2012, signed June 2012, released January 2017 ); FK RFS (Latvia) (March 2017) Football League Career 2008/09 WATFORD Football League Championship (2nd tier) 13th of 24 Sasa Cauna (pronounced Cowna ) was a Chelsea trialist when Brendan Rodgers was the reserve-team manager at Stamford Bridge, and it was Rodgers who brought the player to Watford on loan, where he gave a handful of sprightly performances on the left wing before returning to the Latvian capital and continuing his international career. He was Latvia s Player of the Year in 2011.

31 Yohan Étienne Anthony CAVALLI (2007) Midfielder Born Ajaccio, Corsica, France, 12 September 1981 Representative Honours France Youth FA Premier League: 2+1 appearances FA Cup: 1 appearance Début: 1-0 away win v West Ham United, FA Premier League, 10 Feb 2007 Final game: (as sub) 2-2 home draw v Charlton Athletic, FA Premier League, 3 Mar 2007 Longest run of consecutive appearances: FA Premier League 2; all competitions 3 Nantes (France) (1997); Lorient (France) (free January 2002); US Creteil-Lucitanos (France) (August 2003); Real Mallorca (Spain) (January 2005); Istres (France) (July 2005); WATFORD (free January 2007, released August 2007); AEC Mons (Belgium) (October 2007); Nimes Olympique (France) (close season 2008); AC Ajaccio (France) (2010) FA Premier League Career 2006/07 WATFORD 2 1 FA Premier League 20th of 20 (Relegated) In his few months at Vicarage Road, Yohan (Yohann? Johan? Johann? take your pick, anything goes) Cavalli made little impact before being released and resuming his career on the continent. He went on to make several appearances in a Corsica representative team, and scored in a 1-0 victory over the Bulgarian national side. In the week in which the small midfielder signed for Watford his father, team manager of Algeria s national side, gave Hameur Bouazza his international début.

32 James CHALMERS ( ) Winger Born Old Luce, Wigtownshire, 3 December 1877 Died Gallipoli, Turkey, 12 July 1915 Southern League: 30 appearances (5 goals) FA Cup: 2 appearances (1 goal) Début: 1-0 away win v Queens Park Rangers, Southern League Div 1, 7 Sep 1901 Final game: 1-1 away draw v Northampton Town, Southern League Div 1, 19 Apr 1902 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Southern League 30; all competitions 32 Beith; Morton (July 1896); Sunderland (May 1897); Preston North End (October 1898); Notts County (June 1899); Beith (September 1900); Partick Thistle (October 1900); WATFORD (July 1901); Tottenham Hotspur (April 1902); Swindon Town (May 1904); Norwich City (May 1906); Beith (1907/08 until 1912/13) Scottish League, Football League & Southern League Career 1896/97 Morton 16 Scottish League Division 2 5th of /98 Sunderland 24 5 Football League Division 1 2nd of /99 Sunderland 3 1 Football League Division 1 7th of /99 Preston North End 10 2 Football League Division 1 15th of /00 Notts County 25 2 Football League Division 1 15th of /01 Partick Thistle 6 Scottish League Division 1 11th of 11 (Relegated) 1901/02 WATFORD 30 5 Southern League Division 1 13th of /03 Tottenham Hotspur 4 Southern League Division 1 4th of /04 Tottenham Hotspur 6 1 Southern League Division 1 2nd of /05 Swindon Town 31 9 Southern League Division 1 16th of /06 Swindon Town 31 2 Southern League Division 1 15th of /07 Norwich City 14 2 Southern League Division 1 8th of 20 Prematurely grey and heavily built when scarcely out of his teens seems a less-than-promising description for a lively leftwinger, but Jimmy Chalmers was good enough to have enjoyed three seasons of fairly regular top-flight football with a style that was once described in Athletic News as impetuous and dashing. At a time when dismissals were rare, he was sent off twice once as Swindon Town s captain in 1905/06, and the following season when he returned to Cassio Road with Norwich City Reserves. For the latter indiscretion he was subsequently suspended for two months. A compositor by trade, he worked for a time on the Watford Observer. He died of wounds eleven weeks into the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.

33 Nathaniel Nyakie CHALOBAH (2012- ) Midfielder Born Freetown, Sierra Leone, 12 December 1994 Representative Honours England Youth & Under-21 (to end of the 2016/17 season) Football League: 37+4 appearances (5 goals) FA Cup: 1 appearance Début: (as sub) 0-1 home defeat v Brighton & Hove Albion, Football League Championship, 18 Sep 2012 Final game: 0-1 defeat v Crystal Palace at Wembley Stadium, Football League Championship Play-off Final, 27 May 2012 Longest run of competitive appearances: Football League 20; all competitions 21 Chelsea (Academy, scholar July 2011, professional January 2012); WATFORD (loan August 2012); Nottingham Forest (loan September 2013); Middlesbrough (loan January 2014); Burnley (loan September 2014); Reading (loan January 2015); Napoli (Italy) (loan September 2015); WATFORD ( 5 million July 2017) Football League & FA Premier LeagueCareer 2012/13 WATFORD Football League Championship (2nd tier) 3rd of /14 Nottingham Forest Football League Championship (2nd tier) 11th of /14 Middlesbrough Football League Championship (2nd tier) 12th of /15 Burnley 4 FA Premier League 19th of 20 (Relegated) 2014/15 Reading 15 1 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 19th of /17 Chelsea 1 9 FA Premier League 1st of 20 A precocious footballing talent was apparent from the start of a season-long first loan spell, following a campaign in which Nathaniel Chalobah had captained the Chelsea team which won the FA Youth Cup. He had also played alongside Josh McEachran and George Thorne in the England side which won the 2010 European Under-17 championship. A self-awareness of his creative skill and vision too often spilled into over-confidence and the loss of possession, a deficiency which maturity was always likely to eradicate. The personal peak moment of his first Watford stay was a blistering long-range shot which put the club two goals up in a vital promotion battle at Leicester City.

34 Alec Francis Roy CHAMBERLAIN ( ) Goalkeeper Born March, Cambridgeshire, 20 June 1964 Football League & FA Premier League: appearances FA Cup: 16 appearances Football League Cup: 19+1 appearances Début: 2-0 away win v Crewe Alexandra, Football League Div 2, 31 Aug 1996 Final game: (as sub) 1-1 home draw v Newcastle United, FA Premier League, 13 May 2007 Longest run of consecutive appearances: FA Premier League/Football League 98; all competitions 80 Warboys Town; Ramsey Town; Huntingdonshire Youth; Ipswich Town (free from Ramsey Town July 1981); Colchester United (free August 1982); Everton ( 80,000 July 1987); Tranmere Rovers (loan November 1987); Luton Town ( 150,000 July 1988); Chelsea (loan September 1992); Sunderland (free July 1993); Liverpool (loan March 1995); WATFORD ( 40,000 July 1996 until close season 2007; also first-team goalkeeping coach from March 2005, and academy coach until December 2017) Football League & FA Premier League Career 1982/83 Colchester United 4 Football League Division 4 6th of /84 Colchester United 46 Football League Division 4 8th of /85 Colchester United 46 Football League Division 4 7th of /86 Colchester United 46 Football League Division 4 6th of /87 Colchester United 48 Football League Division 4 5th of /88 Tranmere Rovers 15 Football League Division 4 14th of /89 Luton Town 6 Football League Division 1 16th of /90 Luton Town 38 Football League Division 1 17th of /91 Luton Town 38 Football League Division 1 18th of /92 Luton Town 24 Football League Division 1 20th of 22 (Relegated) 1992/93 Luton Town 32 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 20th of /94 Sunderland 43 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 12th of /95 Sunderland 17 1 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 20th of /96 Sunderland 29 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 1st of 24 (Promoted) 1996/97 WATFORD 4 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 13th of /98 WATFORD 46 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 1st of 24 (Promoted) 1998/99 WATFORD 49 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 5th of /00 WATFORD 27 FA Premier League 20th of 20 (Relegated) 2000/01 WATFORD 19 2 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 9th of /02 WATFORD 32 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 14th of /03 WATFORD 42 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 13th of /04 WATFORD 20 1 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 16th of /05 WATFORD 4 1 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 18th of /06 WATFORD 2 1 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 3rd of 24 (Promoted) 2006/07 WATFORD 1 FA Premier League 20th of 20 (Relegated) After becoming the first Watford goalkeeper for 26 years to keep a clean sheet on his first-team début for the club, Alec Chamberlain had to wait eight months for his second appearance, having been signed as Kevin Miller s understudy. With Miller s departure, however, and although well into his thirties, he embarked on a distinguished club career which established him as one of the major and most popular Vicarage Road figures of modern times. He ended the 1998/99 season with an ever-present League record for the eighth time in his career. Climaxing that season and Alec Chamberlain s career were a shoot-out penalty save in highly-charged circumstances which took the club through to the Play-off final, followed by a clean sheet at Wembley to help ensure promotion to the Premier League. That penalty save was at odds with his overall record when facing spot-kicks on Watford s behalf, which was quite dreadful: excluding shoot-outs, he faced 37 kicks and saved only three, from two of which the penalty-taker scored following up. His Football League career began as understudy to Mike Walker (ex-watford) at Colchester United, for whom he was ever-present in four consecutive seasons, and it ended with a last-minute substitute appearance in the Premier League which made him the second-oldest player ever to have represented Watford in a competitive first-team match.

35 James Ashley CHAMBERS ( ) Full-back Born Sandwell, West Midlands, 20 November 1980 Representative Honours England Youth Football League & FA Premier League: appearances FA Cup: 3+1 appearances Football League Cup: 8+1 appearances (2 goals) Début: 3-0 home win v Queens Park Rangers, Football League Championship, 9 Aug 2004 Final game: (as sub) 0-1 away defeat v Sheffield United, FA Premier League, 28 Apr 2007 Longest run of consecutive appearances: FA Premier League/Football League 35; all competitions 38 West Bromwich Albion (schoolboy May 1995, trainee July 1997, professional January 1999); WATFORD (loan August 2004, 75,000 September 2004, plus a subsequent 175,000 in appearances/promotion increments); Cardiff City (loan October 2006); Leicester City (free June 2007); Doncaster Rovers (free August 2008, released close season 2012); Hereford United (loan March 2012); Walsall (non-contract August 2012, contract June 2013, retired close season 2015); Worcester City (August 2016) Football League & FA Premier League Career 1999/00 West Bromwich Albion 10 2 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 21st of /01 West Bromwich Albion 27 4 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 6th of /02 West Bromwich Albion 1 4 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 2002/03 West Bromwich Albion 2 6 FA Premier League 19th of 20 (Relegated) 2003/04 West Bromwich Albion 14 3 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 2004/05 WATFORD 40 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 18th of /06 WATFORD Football League Championship (2nd tier) 3rd of 24 (Promoted) 2006/07 Cardiff City 7 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 13th of /07 WATFORD 8 4 FA Premier League 20th of 20 (Relegated) 2007/08 Leicester City 15 9 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 22nd of 24 (Relegated) 2008/09 Doncaster Rovers 34 3 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 14th of /10 Doncaster Rovers 43 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 12th of /11 Doncaster Rovers 6 1 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 21st of /12 Hereford United 7 Football League Division 2 (4th tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 2012/13 Walsall 16 6 Football League Division 1 (3rd tier) 9th of /14 Walsall 40 1 Football League Division 1 (3rd tier) 13th of /15 Walsall 31 Football League Division 1 (3rd tier) 14th of 24 James Chambers and his twin brother Adam both went on to enjoy long Football/Premier League careers after winning Youth international caps. They were the first pair of twins to represent England at any level. James, mainly a full-back but with a liking for getting forward and sometimes used in a midfield role, had brief experience of the Premier League with both West Bromwich Albion and Watford, in the latter case having played a substantial part in the club s promotion-winning season in 2005/06. Despite never having scored a League goal in his entire career, he was responsible for two Watford goals, only ten minutes apart, in a 5-2 Football League Cup victory over Southampton in 2004/05. He eventually managed one in a League match on New Year s Day 2014, at the 333rd time of asking.

36 William CHAPMAN ( ) Winger Born Murton, County Durham, 21 September 1902 Died Murton, County Durham, 2 December 1967 Football League: 210 appearances (10 goals) FA Cup: 22 appearances Division 3 (South) Cup: 1 appearance Début: 0-3 away defeat v Crystal Palace, Football League Div 3 (South), 25 Aug 1928 Final game: 0-0 away draw v Queens Park Rangers, Football League Div 3 (South), 24 Mar 1934 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 36; all competitions 40 Murton Council School; Murton Celtic; Murton PM; Hetton PM; Democratic Club, Murton; Sheffield Wednesday (May 1923 after a month s trial); Manchester United ( 250 April 1926); WATFORD (June 1928); Murton Colliery Welfare (free August 1934 until retirement mid-1937/38) Football League Career 1923/24 Sheffield Wednesday 2 Football League Division 2 8th of /25 Sheffield Wednesday 2 Football League Division 2 14th of /27 Manchester United 17 Football League Division 1 15th of /28 Manchester United 9 Football League Division 1 18th of /29 WATFORD 38 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 8th of /30 WATFORD 35 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of /31 WATFORD 36 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 18th of /32 WATFORD 38 4 Football League Division 3 (South) 11th of /33 WATFORD 39 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 11th of /34 WATFORD 24 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of 22 By the time his six-year stint at Watford ended, the Chapman-Barnett right-wing pairing had long been a prominent feature at Vicarage Road, with Billy Chapman on the flank. A fast, tricky and consistent performer who began his working life as a coalminer, he was on the Old Trafford staff with Frank Barson, Frank McPherson and Tommy Barnett, and all four players moved to Watford in Chapman had been on Manchester United s transfer list at 750, but his services were obtained for a lesser amount.

37 Kenney CHARLERY ( ) Forward Born Stepney, London, 28 November 1964 Representative Honours England Non-League St Lucia Full Football League: 45+3 appearances (13 goals) FA Cup: 1 appearance Football League Cup: 3 appearances Anglo-Italian Cup: 0+1 appearance Début: (as sub) 1-1 away draw v Brentford, Football League Div 1, 17 Oct 1992 Final game: 0-2 away defeat v Stoke City, Football League Div 1, 4 Dec 1993 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 22; all competitions 24 Newham Schools; Essex Schools; Beckton United; Basildon United; Fisher Athletic; Maidstone United ( 35,000 March 1989); Peterborough United ( 35,000 March 1991); WATFORD ( 350,000 October 1992); Peterborough United ( 150,000 December 1993); Birmingham City (350,000 July 1995); Southend United (loan January 1996); Peterborough United player-coach (valued at 150,000 in a player part-exchange February 1996); Stockport County ( 75,000 March 1997 plus a subsequent 25,000 increment for promotion); Barnet player-coach ( 82,000 August 1997); Boston United ( 25,000 September 2000); Dagenham & Redbridge (free October 2001); Farnborough Town (free August 2002, player-coach by September 2003 until May 2004); Waltham Forest (August 2004); Harrow Borough player-coach (December 2004); Peterborough United coaching staff (April 2006); Harrow Borough first-team coach (close season 2006); St Albans City assistant-manager (close season 2011); Ware manager (November 2015 until January 2017); London Colney (manager and part-owner June 2017) Football League Career 1989/90 Maidstone United Football League Division 4 5th of /91 Maidstone United Football League Division 4 19th of /91 Peterborough United 2 2 Football League Division 4 4th of 24 (Promoted) 1991/92 Peterborough United Football League Division 3 6th of 24 (Promoted) 1992/93 Peterborough United 10 3 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 10th of /93 WATFORD Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 16th of /94 WATFORD Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 19th of /94 Peterborough United 26 8 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 24th of 24 (Relegated) 1994/95 Peterborough United Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 15th of /96 Birmingham City Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 15th of /96 Southend United 2 1 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 14th of /96 Peterborough United 19 7 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 19th of /97 Peterborough United Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 21st of 24 (Relegated) 1996/97 Stockport County 8 2 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 1997/98 Barnet Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 7th of /99 Barnet Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 16th of /00 Barnet Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 6th of /01 Barnet Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 24th of 24 (Relegated) Peterborough United did well financially out of Ken Charlery s moves to and from Watford. A striker and a very popular figure at London Road, he hit two play-off goals at Wembley to take the club to the second tier of English football for the first time in its history. He was nearly 25 when he made his Football League début as a substitute at Peterborough, but in the colours of newly-elected Maidstone United and as a colleague of Steve Butler.

38 Charles Thomas CHASE ( ) Forward Born Patcham, Sussex, 31 January 1924 Football League: 16 appearances (1 goal) Début: 0 2 home defeat v Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Football League Div 3 (South), 7 Dec 1946 Final game: 2 2 home draw v Norwich City, Football League Div 3 (South), 3 Jan 1948 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 13; all competitions 13 Brighton & Hove Schools; Sussex Schools; Downs Athletic; Southwick; Brighton & Hove Albion (amateur September 1940); Sussex Youth; Brighton & Hove Albion (professional December 1945); WATFORD (November 1946 after 2 months trial); Crystal Palace (free June 1948 until close season 1950) Football League Career 1946/47 WATFORD 14 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 16th of /48 WATFORD 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of /49 Crystal Palace 27 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 22nd of /50 Crystal Palace 28 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 7th of 22 Charlie Chase, who in the Second World War served in the Royal Sussex Regiment and then as a paratrooper before being invalided out after being wounded, secured an engagement at Vicarage Road in the first normal post war season at the end of two months as a trialist. A versatile player whose spasmodic Football League appearances for Watford were all in the forward line, he later became head groundsmen in The Parks, home of Oxford University Cricket Club, between two spells of similar employment at Brighton College. At the age of 16 he was a member of the Brighton & Hove Albion side which defeated Norwich City 18 0 on Christmas Day 1940.

39 Denis CHENEY (1948) Winger Born Coalville, Leicestershire, 30 June 1924 Died Bournemouth, Dorset, 29 September 2008 Football League: 18 appearances (5 goals) Début: 1-1 home draw v Northampton Town, Football League Div 3 (South), 31 Jan 1948 Final game: 3-3 away draw v Notts County, Football League Div 3 (South), 1 May 1948 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 18; all competitions 18 Coalville Town (February 1939); Leicester City (amateur March 1940, professional November 1941); WATFORD (loan January 1948 until July 1948); Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic ( 2,500 October 1948); Aldershot (July 1954); Dorchester Town (August 1956); Portland United (June 1959) Football League Career 1947/48 Leicester City 1 Football League Division 2 9th of /48 WATFORD 18 5 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of /49 Leicester City 1 Football League Division 2 19th of /49 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 13 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 3rd of /50 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 26 5 Football League Division 3 (South) 12th of /51 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 23 9 Football League Division 3 (South) 9th of /52 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 29 9 Football League Division 3 (South) 14th of /53 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic Football League Division 3 (South) 9th of /54 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 30 7 Football League Division 3 (South) 19th of /55 Aldershot Football League Division 3 (South) 14th of /56 Aldershot 21 6 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of 24 The odd man out when five players were signed from Leicester City in that he came only on loan, but nevertheless Denis Cheney was ever-present on the left wing until he returned to Filbert Street at the end of the season. He was soon back in Division 3 (South), however, where he made over two hundred Football League appearances with his two Hampshire clubs, who used him in the more central attacking positions, from which he racked up a useful tally of goals. Dorchester Town subsequently benefited from his scoring prowess to the tune of 61 goals in a season. He made his Leicester City first-team début in a wartime fixture at the age of 16, before experiencing active service in Singapore.

40 Steve Reginald CHERRY (1995) Goalkeeper Born Nottingham, 5 August 1960 Representative Honours England Youth Football League: 4 appearances Début: 2-3 home defeat v Barnsley, Football League Div 3, 26 Aug 1995 Final game: 2-4 away defeat v Portsmouth, Football League Div 3, 28 Oct 1995 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 3; all competitions 3 Derby County (schoolboy November 1975, apprentice August 1976, professional March 1978); Port Vale (loan November 1980); Walsall ( 25,000 August 1984); Plymouth Argyle ( 17,000 October 1986); Chesterfield (loan December 1988); Notts County ( 70,000 February 1989); WATFORD (free July 1995); Plymouth Argyle (loan February 1996, free May 1996); Rotherham United (free July 1996); Kettering Town (free March 1997); Rushden & Diamonds (March 1997, contract cancelled December 1997); Rothwell Town; Stalybridge Celtic (February 1998); Notts County (March 1998 until May 1998); Mansfield Town (non-contract July 1998); Gainsborough Trinity (August 1998); Oldham Athletic (non-contract March 1999); Lincoln United (2002); also Lincoln City (non-contract and goalkeeping coach March 2003); Kidsgrove Athletic (December 2003); Belper Town (October 2004); Notts County goalkeeping coach; Macclesfield goalkeeping coach (July 2008 until close season 2010) Football League Career 1979/80 Derby County 4 Football League Division 1 21st of 22 (Relegated) 1980/81 Port Vale 4 Football League Division 4 19th of /82 Derby County 4 Football League Division 2 16th of /83 Derby County 31 Football League Division 2 13th of /84 Derby County 38 Football League Division 2 20th of 22 (Relegated) 1984/85 Walsall 41 Football League Division 3 11th of /86 Walsall 30 Football League Division 3 6th of /87 Plymouth Argyle 21 Football League Division 2 7th of /88 Plymouth Argyle 37 Football League Division 2 16th of /89 Plymouth Argyle 15 Football League Division 2 18th of /89 Chesterfield 10 Football League Division 3 22nd of 24 (Relegated) 1988/89 Notts County 18 Football League Division 3 9th of /90 Notts County 49 Football League Division 3 3rd of 24 (Promoted) 1990/91 Notts County 49 Football League Division 2 4th of 24 (Promoted) 1991/92 Notts County 42 Football League Division 1 21st of 22 (Relegated) 1992/93 Notts County 44 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 17th of /94 Notts County 45 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 7th of /95 Notts County 25 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 24th of 24 (Relegated) 1995/96 WATFORD 4 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 1995/96 Plymouth Argyle 19 Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 4th of 24 (Promoted) 1996/97 Rotherham United 20 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 1998/99 Mansfield Town 1 Football League Division 3 (4th tier) 8th of 24 Signed at the age of nearly 35, Steve Cherry came to Watford in the unfamiliar role of second-choice goalkeeper, having enjoyed a long first-team career with his other clubs which brought him over six hundred League and cup appearances. More than half of them were for Notts County, whom he helped to win three times at Wembley Stadium, where he also experienced victory with Plymouth Argyle. All four triumphs came in the space of six years: 1989/90 Division 3 Play-off final and 1990/91 Division 2 Play-off final with Notts, 1994/95 Anglo-Italian Cup final with Notts, and 1995/96 Division 3 Play-off final with Argyle. He later turned out for Kidsgrove Athletic with his son.

41 Gary Paul Stephen CHIVERS ( ) Defender Born Stockwell, London, 15 May 1960 Football League: 14 appearances FA Cup: 4 appearances Football League Cup: 1 appearance Début: 3-2 away win v Sheffield Wednesday, Football League Div 1, 12 Sep 1987 Final game: 1-0 away win v Coventry City, FA Cup 4th Round, 30 Jan 1988 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 5; all competitions 8 London Schools; Chelsea (apprentice July 1976, professional August 1978); Swansea City (free August 1983); Queens Park Rangers (February 1984); WATFORD (free September 1987); Brighton & Hove Albion ( 40,000 March 1988); Lyn (Norway) (free close season 1993); AFC Bournemouth (non-contract November 1993); Stamco (January 1995 until close season 1996); Worthing player-manager (September 1996 until December 1996); Chelsea Under-13s coach; Collingwood School, Wallington, coach (by February 2005); Chelsea old-boys teams Football League Career 1978/79 Chelsea 5 Football League Division 1 22nd of 22 (Relegated) 1979/80 Chelsea Football League Division 2 4th of /81 Chelsea Football League Division 2 12th of /82 Chelsea 28 1 Football League Division 2 12th of /83 Chelsea 29 1 Football League Division 2 18th of /84 Swansea City 10 Football League Division 2 21st of 22 (Relegated) 1984/85 Queens Park Rangers 22 1 Football League Division 1 19th of /86 Queens Park Rangers 13 1 Football League Division 1 13th of /87 Queens Park Rangers 23 Football League Division 1 16th of /88 WATFORD 14 Football League Division 1 20th of 21 (Relegated) 1987/88 Brighton & Hove Albion 10 Football League Division 3 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 1988/89 Brighton & Hove Albion 46 6 Football League Division 2 19th of /90 Brighton & Hove Albion 41 3 Football League Division 2 18th of /91 Brighton & Hove Albion 42 4 Football League Division 2 6th of /92 Brighton & Hove Albion Football League Division 2 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 1992/93 Brighton & Hove Albion 43 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 9th of /94 AFC Bournemouth Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 17th of /95 AFC Bournemouth 5 Football League Division 2 (3rd tier) 19th of 24 Somewhat surprisingly sold only six months after being signed, he had begun to look an accomplished right-back in a relegation-doomed Watford side after first being used in midfield. Gary Chivers was already an experienced player, having started with a good career at Chelsea, and after leaving Vicarage Road clocked up over two hundred Football League appearances for Brighton & Hove Albion, one of which he started in goal as a result of a pre-match injury to Perry Digweed, keeping a clean sheet for eight minutes until replaced by a substitute goalkeeper. He was Mark Falco s successor as manager of Worthing.

42 Chose Loint CHOLEVAS (see José Lloyd HOLEBAS)

43 Rocky Michael CHOPRA (2003) Forward Born Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, 23 December 1983 Representative Honours England Youth & Under-21 Football League: 4+1 appearances (5 goals) FA Cup: 1 appearance Début: 2-2 away draw v Sheffield Wednesday, Football League Div 1, 29 Mar 2003 Final game: 2-0 home win v Derby County, Football League Div 1, 21 Apr 2003 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 4; all competitions 5 Newcastle United (trained from age 9, scholar March 1998, professional January 2001); WATFORD (loan March 2003); Nottingham Forest (loan February 2004); Barnsley (loan August 2004); Cardiff City ( 500,000 June 2006); Sunderland ( 5 million July 2007); Cardiff City (loan November 2008, 4 million July 2009); Ipswich Town ( 1.5 million June 2011); Blackpool (free July 2013); Kerala Blasters (India) (free August 2014); Alloa (March 2015, released March 2016) Football League, FA Premier League & Scottish League Career 2002/03 WATFORD Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 13th of /03 Newcastle United 1 FA Premier League 3rd of /04 Newcastle United 1 5 FA Premier League 5th of /04 Nottingham Forest 3 2 Football League Division 1 (2nd tier) 14th of /05 Barnsley Football League Division 1 (3rd tier) 13th of /05 Newcastle United 1 FA Premier League 14th of /06 Newcastle United FA Premier League 7th of /07 Cardiff City Football League Championship (2nd tier) 13th of /08 Sunderland FA Premier League 15th of /09 Sunderland FA Premier League 16th of /09 Cardiff City Football League Championship (2nd tier) 7th of /10 Cardiff City Football League Championship (2nd tier) 4th of /11 Cardiff City Football League Championship (2nd tier) 4th of /12 Ipswich Town Football League Championship (2nd tier) 15th of /13 Ipswich Town Football League Championship (2nd tier) 14th of /14 Blackpool 5 13 Football League Championship (2nd tier) 20th of /15 Alloa Scottish League Championship (2nd tier) 9th of /16 Alloa Scottish League Championship (2nd tier) 10th of 10 (Relegated) A natural and predatory goalscorer, as befits someone who attended the same high school as Alan Shearer. Michael Chopra came down to Watford on loan as a teenaged Newcastle United reserve and proceeded to score four times in his second game in senior first-team football: Burnley 4, Watford 7. The following season brought his maiden first-team appearance for Newcastle, as a substitute in nothing less than a Champions League fixture away to Barcelona. The sprightly Chopra s international outings encompassed selection at six age-group levels up to and including Under-21, but he later ran into serious alcohol and gambling problems. In 2014 he joined a club in India (the land of his father), announcing that he wished to renounce his English citizenship with a view to playing international football for India, but nine months later he was plying his trade in Clackmannanshire.

44 Cyril CHUNG ( ) Forward / Half-back Born Abingdon, Berkshire, 16 July 1932 Football League: 220 appearances (22 goals, including 1 penalty) FA Cup: 19 appearances (2 goals) Southern Floodlight Cup: 2 appearances Football League Cup: 4 appearances Début: 1-2 away defeat v Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Football League Div 3 (South), 24 Aug 1957 Final game: 0-2 away defeat v Oldham Athletic, Football League Div 3, 27 Jan1965 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 35; all competitions 34 Abingdon Town; Reading (amateur August 1949); Headington United (1950); Reading (professional July 1951); Norwich City ( 5,000 January 1955); WATFORD (June 1957, player-coach close season 1962); Ipswich Town assistant-manager (July 1965 until 1969); Wolverhampton Wanderers (trainer-coach 1969, assistant-manager 1972, manager June 1976 until November 1978); Vasteras (Sweden) manager (1980 until 1982); coach in United Arab Emirates; Stoke City coach coach (July 1985 until October 1989); Colchester United assistant-manager (January 1990); Blackburn Rovers chief scout (close season 1990 until September 1991); Oldswinford manager (December 1991); Tamworth manager (February 1992 until January 1993); Doncaster Rovers manager (July 1994 until August 1996); Barbados director of football (1999); Minehead coaching staff (2005) Football League Career 1953/54 Reading 5 4 Football League Division 3 (South) 8th of /55 Reading 17 8 Football League Division 3 (South) 18th of /55 Norwich City 20 6 Football League Division 3 (South) 12th of /56 Norwich City 16 1 Football League Division 3 (South) 7th of /57 Norwich City 11 2 Football League Division 3 (South) 24th of /58 WATFORD 41 7 Football League Division 3 (South) 16th of 24 (Relegated) 1958/59 WATFORD 28 6 Football League Division 3 (South) 15th of /60 WATFORD 37 1 Football League Division 4 4th of 24 (Promoted) 1960/61 WATFORD 37 1 Football League Division 3 4th of /62 WATFORD 11 2 Football League Division 3 17th of /63 WATFORD 26 4 Football League Division 3 17th of /64 WATFORD 26 1 Football League Division 3 3rd of /65 WATFORD 14 Football League Division 3 9th of 24 Highly adaptable in his long spell at Vicarage Road, Sammy Chung son of a Chinese father and English mother turned out at inside-forward and centre-forward as well all three half-back positions. As leader of the attack he scored all the goals in a 3-0 win against Workington in September 1958, but subsequently settled down as the regular left-half in the Holton-inspired promotion season. He left Vicarage Road to follow manager Bill McGarry and become his coach at both Ipswich and Wolves, and was eventually to succeed McGarry at Molineux and lead the club to the Second Division championship in 1976/77.