Make sure you go and see this, Hornets fans. The exhibition opens on August 6 WatfordFC
Sarah Priestley, Tom Brodrick and Neil Dunham with the original Terry Challis painting. Pictures: Anthony Matthews
The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, August 6, and will showcase a host of artefacts that the 100 Years at the Vic project has collated after asking people to get in touch, including some objects that would have been lost forever had they not been saved from skips by fans.
Neil said: “Watford is a unique football club. We’re a small club, we’ve got a great community and people that work at the club tend to be fans. We had Tony Marks and Ian Sewell who were both managers of the Hornets Shop, they’ve both given things to the exhibition.“In the late 1980s and early 90s the club didn’t really take too much interest in their heritage and it was down to the supporters to dive into skips and climb onto the rubble.
She said: “I was up at Old Trafford for the first Women’s Euros match and that is an incredible place. But when you walk around behind the scenes in the stands you could be anywhere. What I love about Watford’s stadium is it is actually its own exhibition. There’s so much love for that history. It’s not just the case of the museum cares or some fans care, it’s so embedded.
Tom added: “Beyond those, being able to see the Terry Challis painting that became the famous poster that predicted that meteoric rise, the most fantastic period in the club’s history, for people to be able to see it is a wonderful opportunity.”
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