Watford owner Gino Pozzo stopped briefly for a few words after the game on Saturday as he walked from pitch level into the media mixed zone. In a friendly exchange, he praised his team’s spirit and felt the performance helped to lay some foundations for the rebuilding job that is needed. He then went up into a nearby lift to the chairman’s suite.



The Italian would have been able to discuss sharing the points with Daniel Levy, but that’s not all Watford and Tottenham have in common at the moment.



The Athletic can exclusively reveal that Watford have taken on stadium design firm Populous — who led the development of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium — to work on the planned expansion of Vicarage Road.



The design company that also worked on the regeneration of Wembley have been instructed to finalise architectural designs for the planned two-phase project that could cost up to £40 million to complete. The partnership has been...