Watford MP Tristan Garel-Jones praises the club in the House of Commons and is said to be a keen supporter (see In Hansard on the Hornets Nest page)…

…However ten years later we sacked him as an Honorary Vice-President for his support of the Football Spectators Bill.  At around the same time an MP, who had recently been sacked as Vice-President of a football club, revealed to Norman Tebbit that the game bored him to tears as reported in this snippet from the Sunday Express which was reprinted in the programme from the 17th October 1989- Division Two, Watford 2 Bournemouth 2

Watford Observer match report