Watford captain Troy Deeney stands by his "cojones" jibe at Arsenal players last season.

Watford will go seventh if they win tonight against Arsenal.

Deeney said in Tales From The Vicarage Volume 7: Captains: “Hindsight's a wonderful thing, and I might have been better off just saving it for the boozer afterwards, but I don't ever regret it.

“If I'm out in London now, I get Arsenal fans coming up to me and saying, 'That cojones comment was out of order, but fair play for saying what you think'.

“Others will tap me on the shoulder and say, 'Good on you, Troy, I've been saying that for years'.

“I was the first one to come out and say it, and one or two people piled into me. But when they lost at Brighton, Swansea, Bournemouth and others, it was safe for experts to come out and say, 'They have the quality but they lack the fight'. It gave others a licence to repeat it.

“People used it as a pretext for saying Arsene Wenger should go as the Arsenal manager – but I never said that, and I've got nothing but respect for Mr Wenger. He built the Invincibles, one of the greatest football teams we've ever seen in this country."