A bottle of vodka, a can of lemonade, a bottle of the energy drink Krating Daeng (which is three times as powerful as normal Red Bull) and plenty of ice served in a plastic beach bucket with a couple of straws. It’s one hell of a cocktail.



The recipe is known by many revellers who have been to party islands like Koh Phangan or Koh Samui simply because that recipe is frequently sought out the morning after the night before. “What was in that drink we had last night?” A line you will often hear being whispered through a cracking headache.



Too many of these concoctions, known simply as “buckets”, and you will suffer the worst hangover. They take no prisoners and will leave you incarcerated in your satanically hot beachside hut, dehydrated, ill and filled with melancholy and dread for days.



Watford looked like they were experiencing a hangover of that magnitude on Saturday against England’s seasiders, Brighton. The 3-0...