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By Nicki Hattingh
Much more than just a safe pair of hands! How Alec Chamberlain used the positive power of football to help my son...
By Peter Jones
Why meeting Alec Chamberlain was as thrilling to one sports buff as shaking hands with Viv Richards – and why not!...
By Ian Lathey
Andy Holt. A Hull City left back. It doesn’t matter which club you’re managing or where you take them, Andy will do a job for you. Twenty grand should be sufficient if you want to buy him or, if you wait a season or two, you can pick him up for free....
Role Model by Frances Lynn
Last weekend, I attended a charity game at Berkhamsted FC. This provided quite a sobering experience as a guy near me pointed to John Barnes and said to his young boy, “See that fat bloke...
By Ian Grant
For a game that's essentially fairly simple - you score, they don't, everyone goes home happy - football generates an awful lot of opinions. Each manager, each player, each game; each is surrounded by a swarm of commentary from countless sources...
By Ryan and Natasha Chamberlain
It will come as know surprise to learn that two of Watford's most enthusiastic supporters are called Chamberlain, rarely miss a home match and often follow the team on their travels too...
By Pete Fincham
"I have in my hand a piece of paper!"
The familiar yell resonates from the Rookery or relevant away end each week when Alec plays. In turn, this is greeted with the equally familiar half-wave from Watford's Number One. And that is normally that. A sort of greeting, a sort of wave, and everyone gets on with doing what...
By Matt Rowson
It's the summer of 1996. Watford, despite a late flourish under Graham Taylor, had been relegated to Division Two for the first time in seventeen years and were at a low ebb. As if to emphasise the point, the summer recruits to what we hoped was a promotion push were singularly uninspiring...
By Lee Sturgess
The word legend is thrown around very loosely nowadays, but Alec Chamberlain is one player who definitely deserves the title. Two Player of the Season awards tell their own story. Over the 10 years Alec Chamberlain has always been reliable; keepers have been brought in throughout, yet...
