Month: August 2013

10th August 2013- Championship, Watford 6 AFC Bournemouth 1

 Troy Deeney fired in a hat-trick as Watford thrashed newly promoted Bournemouth to go top of the table.

 Troy Deeney hit a hat-trick as Watford hammered Bournemouth 6-1 in their Championship clash at Vicarage Road.

 Troy Deeney scored a second-half hat-trick as Watford demolished Bournemouth at Vicarage Road and sent a strong message to their Championship promotion rivals.

Watford signalled their Premier League ambitions with five goals in a ruthless second half display to crush newly-promoted Bournemouth.

 Even for world-weary types like your correspondent, who prefer their battles hard-fought and their victories without any sense of entitlement, this is terribly hard to resist. It almost feels as if the anticlimax at Wembley didn’t happen; perhaps it was such a non-event, swimming in the spring heat haze, that any memories have simply evaporated and left little trace. What might’ve been a watershed moment just passed quietly into history, and here we are: the old gang, back together for another shot at the big time. Even for world-weary types, it’s a tantalising prospect.