This week's trip down Vicarage Road memory lanes recalls when Tommy Mooney helped fire the Hornets to the Premier League watfordfc
Nick Catley looks at the player who literally did it on a Tuesday night in Stoke – and changed a season – as the Watford Observer again teams up with its friends at the Watford Treasury to share stories from previous issues of YBR! - Yellow Black & Red!
At 4.15 pm on April 3, 1999, Tommy Mooney’s Vicarage Road career seemed to be gradually coasting to a halt, as he sat on the bench – not an unfamiliar spot for him that season – watching the Hornets trail Tranmere. Watford’s promotion hopes appeared similarly moribund. If it had all ended there, he would still have been extremely fondly remembered. Signed as part of a deadline-day quartet five years earlier which inspired a run to safety, he played a significant role in the subsequent years, including being named Player of the Season in the 1995/96 relegation campaign. He had occupied all the positions in an L-shape between left-winger and centre-back – a kind of knight’s move utility player – rivalling even Steve Palmer for versatility.
As we know, though, it didn’t end there. Part of a triple substitution that day, Mooney crossed for Peter Kennedy’s equaliser in a 2-1 win that would echo through the ages as kick-starting the run to the play-offs. In yet another example of Graham Taylor finding a way to get the best from his players, Tommy was galvanised by a switch to an out-and-out striking role. He contributed a goal and an assist at Birmingham two days later, and suddenly it was all on.
Tommy’s image was always as the ultimate no-nonsense player, a kind of anti-maverick who prevailed through sheer force of will – essentially the epitome of the player who can do it on a Tuesday night in Stoke. Handily, that’s exactly where the next game took place – well, Burslem anyway – and he lived up to the reputation.
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