Monthly Archives: April 2014

29th April 2014- Championship, Charlton Athletic 3 Watford 1

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

BBC: Callum Harriott struck his first two league goals of the season to help ensure a win that sealed Charlton’s Championship survival.

Fran’s Watford Blog: Reading my notes back, we were competitive in the first half but, once we went a goal down, we never looked like getting back into the game. We’ve been poor on our travels for most of the season, but those last two performances were abject and have had me questioning why I bother if the players don’t. Still, I know that come the end of May I’ll be itching for pre-season. I’m a glutton for punishment.

Evening Standard, 30 Apr 2014

Independent, 30 Apr 2014

19th April 2014- Championship, Watford 3 Ipswich Town 1

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5115

Watford kept alive their hopes of reaching the Championship play-offs and dented Ipswich’s with victory at Vicarage Road.

Beppe Sannino said: “Tozser’s the only player I can’t change in this team because I don’t have any other players with his characteristics. He gave us the right balance. He’s the only player that knows he’s going to play in advance.”

This was a game from a parallel universe. A parallel universe in which this season panned out as we thought it might, in which we really did rip the division up, too good for whatever the Championship could throw at us. In which a team turning up and haring after us, closing us down up the pitch and denying us space and waiting for us to make a mistake wasn’t anything like enough. A parallel universe in which, perversely, Beppe Sannino had replaced Gianfranco anyway. Go figure. I never claimed to be an expert in this stuff.

8th April 2014- Championship, Watford 3 Leeds United 0

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

WFC.Net Goal Commentary: 1 2 3

BBC: Almen Abdi gave Watford an early lead when he nodded home Ikechi Anya’s cross, before Anya headed the second from Marco Davide Faraoni’s centre. Troy Deeney’s close-range strike left Watford seven points off sixth with a game in hand. Leeds have one win in 12.

BHappy: There was an “on the cardsness” about this one. Those dropped points on Saturday, embers of resentment and regret at the outcome of this fixture last season, United’s not-even-a-little-bit funny plummet down the table with attention diverted and management precarious all pointed in one direction. One of those emphatic and yet routine wins borne of a superiority that you really wish we could distribute a little more evenly across the season’s fixtures, but life doesn’t work like that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26830155

5th April 2014- Championship, Watford 1 Burnley 1

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5112

Burnley scored a late equaliser to draw at Watford and move a point closer to promotion to the Premier League. Troy Deeney had given the hosts an early lead with a superb strike from 25 yards but the Hornets were made to rue their failure to get a second goal.

Burnley’s disallowed goal was greeted with a rousing rendition of “One Stuart Attwell” from the Rookery. Coming hot on the heels of the inevitable mock-celebration in response to the first shot drifting wide of the Clarets’ goal this briefly suggested that the much-discussed first return of Attwell since the ghost goal of 2008 would be commemorated with sarcasm and wit rather than ire and red-faced barracking. That it didn’t prove that way was in no small part down to an erratic display from the official, albeit that the only decision that had the potential to directly impact the outcome was, if failure it was, down to Attwell’s assistant. Which sounds familiar.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2014-04-05

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/05-april-2014/