Monthly Archives: March 2014

25th March 2014- Championship, Watford 3 Blackburn Rovers 3

Referee: Darren Sheldrake
Attendance: 13,921

An injury-time header from Rudy Gestede secured a point for Blackburn at Vicarage Road, denying Watford a seventh straight home win.

So, this is all a bit weird. For the first time in twenty-odd years, I’m visiting – definitely feels like visiting – Vicarage Road with almost no context in which to place the game I’m about to see. Last time around, a little person’s lifetime ago, it was all George Thorne and Diego Fabbrini and getting stuffed at home by Yeovil; our habit of wandering around with immaculate hair and shoelaces undone had, inevitably, led to us plunging head-first towards the bottom of a steep flight of stairs. All of last season’s joie de vivre had gone, leaving only the witless confusion of that ridiculous, disastrous second half against Leeds, the pivotal moment of Gianfranco Zola’s reign. It wasn’t any fun.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2014-03-25

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/25-march-2014/

15th March 2014- Championship, Watford 3 Barnsley 0

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

WFC.Net Goal Commentary: 1 2 3

BBC: Barnsley slumped to the foot of the Championship as Watford breezed to a fifth-straight home league win. The Hornets were in command within 16 minutes after Cristian Battocchio scored, then Troy Deeney netted his 17th goal of the season.

Bhappy: Extraordinary how things have flipped around. Under Gianfranco our away form was passable, regular points away from home from perhaps stronger performances than the results suggested… but at home we were a catastrophe, increasingly without an answer to the same sucker punch. Now… our home form is extraordinary, today’s result never in doubt. In Blackpool and Barnsley we’ve faced two poor sides at low points in their season but we’ve put them away in style. Our away form has been iffier, and the obstacle to a more credible play-off challenge. Up to now, the distance to the play-offs has not been insurmountable… it’s been the fact that we haven’t been putting together a string of results to threaten to bridge that gap that’s been the problem. Whilst we still await another away win, the strong performance at Doncaster suggests that that win will come sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, we may be getting it together just as the games start to run out.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26492909

1st March 2014- Championship, Watford 4 Blackpool 0

Watford thumped Blackpool to extend the Seasiders’ winless run to 16 league matches.

On the quarter hour Kaiser Tözsér sent a monstrous, arcing corner onto Matthias Ranégie’s head, unattended at the far post; his bullet header gave us the lead. This didn’t stop Richard Short crediting Troy Deeney, but then he’d twice welcomed Lucas Neill twice as a “loan signing” during the warm up so he’s obviously not a detail kinda guy.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2014-03-01

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/01-march-2014/

https://oldwatford.com/2019/04/23/23rd-april-2019-premier-league-watford-1-southampton-1/