The Horns recorded their first win in seven league games and their first win at home since I left by beating the second richest club in the world (QPR) 3-0 with first-half goals from Tommy Smith, Darren Ward and Lee Williamson. In doing so we moved up to fourth from bottom as Charlton were thrashed at home, consequently parting company with manager Alan Curbishley.
In Brisbane, I had to go to bed ten minutes before the Vicarage Road final whistle but woke up with an A-League game to go to with my congenial hosts Sue and Allen (who lent me an away shirt). So it was that Watford’s red and gold merged to become the orange of Queensland Roar (rubbish name), who had a worse home record than the Golden Boys, not having won at the impressive 
but largely empty Suncorp Stadium (which, in common with WFC, they share with a rugby club) all season.
The parallels with my English club are not repeated when it comes to the league (Roar are third out of eight while their opponents Perth Glory, whose fans faced a six-hour flight home, are bottom). There is neither relegation nor promotion in the tiny division, which will grow by two (Gold Coast Galaxy and North Queensland Fury) next year. Still, the English Championship does have a Welsh team (Swansea City) while New Zealand’s Wellington Phoenix play in the Australian league.
Roar’s captain Craig Moore, who had an operation for testicular cancer just 12 days ago, started this Movember match (moustache growth is sponsored to benefit male charities every year in this month) and saw his team break their hoodoo and win by the same margin Watford did yesterday though this game saw five goals, the best of which was a second-half volley from Roar’s ex-Watford player Charlie Miller.
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