'Get behind the team and let's be realistic' - Dionisi's message to the fans
15.08.26, 19:35 Updated 15.08.26, 19:35 4 Minute Read
Mike Walters
Leave your negativity at the door, get behind the team and let’s be realistic.
Alessio Dionisi’s keynote message to fans, as the Hornets kick off a 15th League campaign under Gino Pozzo’s ownership, will strike a chord with supporters who accept that no club has a divine right to win promotion - and this season there is certainly no pot of gold to finance it at Watford.
The first four Championship fixtures, against Southampton, Wrexham, West Ham and Swansea, may well serve only to conform with the most pessimistic agenda - that, in golfing terms, Dionisi has been left to play an Open course without enough lofted clubs to dig his way out of the bunkers.
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Mike Walters spent 40 years on Fleet Street as a top sports writer and a regular in the Press box at Vicarage Road. His first game as a wide-eyed Watford fan was a 5-0 FA Cup win against Reading 55 years ago and, coupled with his national newspaper experience, few supporters are better-equipped to cover English football's original family club.