Watford Football Club is saying goodbye to its long-serving Football Secretary, Gayle Vowels, who has dedicated over 12 years to the club. Gayle has been a vital part of the club's administration, working tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure the smooth running of the football side. Her ability to anticipate and empathise with the needs of the club and its supporters has been first-class, and she will be sorely missed. Gayle has been a role model in consistency to those around her at the club's London Colney training complex. She has worked in football before joining Watford, but quickly seized upon the opportunity to maintain the club's community-focused reputation wherever opportunity arose. This has been particularly keenly felt in recent years, adopting in that unassuming - and clearly comforting - way the role of gatekeeper between many of the Watford families whose children have been dealt a cruel hand by illness and terminal conditions. Her compassion towards providing special experiences for these young Hornets and their loved ones has marked her out as one of the club's great ambassadors among its office-based workforce. Gayle has demonstrated what you can achieve in an ambassadorial sense, without a squad number and your name on the back of your shirt, or without many outside of the club's office walls really knowing your name. Now you've read this, you might commit the name Gayle Vowels to your memory as someone who served the club - and its supporters - with distinction and great integrity. Thank you, Gayle, from everyone here at Watford FC. Good luck for the future.