15th April 1969- Division Three, Watford 1 Plymouth Argyle 0

This win promoted us to the second tier of English football for the first time in our history.

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100 Greatest Watford wins- No.18: If you listened to the gossip in the pubs and clubs around Watford you’d have heard a familiar story, told with all the certainty of the saloon bar. Watford don’t want promotion. They keep throwing it away on purpose. Bonser doesn’t want the hassle. The board don’t want to pay Division Two bonuses or improve the ground.

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27th March 2004- New Division One, Watford 1 Wigan Athletic 1

Press clippings courtesy of Stephen Danzig

Press clippings courtesy of Stephen Danzig

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