Nigel Ian Callaghan

Although Nigel Callaghan was born in Singapore, at Changi RAF station, his family returned to Garston when he was about two weeks old. He made his League début as an apprentice and became an integral part of the club’s successes in the early 1980s. Flourishing on the right wing as a gifted striker of the ball, he unleashed shots and crosses in profusion, and perhaps could have achieved more before allowing his career to drift. The managers of his first two non-League clubs were both former Watford colleagues: Dennis Booth at Stafford Rangers and Neil Price at Walton & Hersham. He was a member of the England team which won the UEFA Under-21 tournament in 1983/84, as was Steve Hodge.

West Herts / Watford Career