So it IS a bit of a multiple meaning here. After all "the vicarage" is itself something of a literary cliché in English writing. Someone who doesn't know from English football, like me, will see "Tales from the Vicarage" and imagine a world of things that have nothing to do with football. As I venture a little nearer to Watford FC through reading what is online, I even notice that some insiders (like team players) call the place "The Vic." A spin-off of this Watford FC writing is a series that came out of Volume Two of Tales From The Vicarage. Olly Wicken contributed to Volume Two a fantasy about life after death and how fans and participants of and in the Watford FC interact in heaven, faithful as ever. This one contribution proved so popular that it resulted in something called Hornet Heaven, best known as a podcast series.
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