Joao Pedro ended Watford's 255-day famine without a home win to launch the Rob Edwards era in style.
Since November 20 last year – the day they put paid to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's reign at Manchester United – the Hornets had invented umpteen ways to lose football matches in front of their own fans, each usually more tragic than the last. But Pedro, the boy from Brazil whose sublime promise has often outweighed his end product, came up trumps with a winner as stylish as it was overdue.
Brave new dawns are two-a-penny at Watford, but none of head coach Edwards' 15 predecessors in the last 10 years inherited such an unholy mess. After losing 12 of their last 13 home games on a feckless tailspin through the Premier League drayman's hatch – the other was a 0-0 draw – the Hornets could scarcely do any worse.
