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28th February 2009- Championship, Watford 2 Crystal Palace 0

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New Watford signing Don Cowie scored one and set up the other as the Hornets clinched a third successive league win.

Three games now against teams that are “down there”.  Continue this good run and lingering relegation concerns could be behind us in ten days’ time.

Mirror, 2 Mar 2009

More games from 28th February at https://oldwatford.com/tag/feb28

21st February 2004- New Division One, Walsall 0 Watford 1

Programme images courtesy of Matt Hall

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Observer, 22 Feb 2004

BSAD: Despite the post-match celebrations, we don’t yet know what this really means. But we do know what it couldmean. For all the talk of the inevitability of a battle against relegation until the end of the season, it’s well within our power to change that, quickly and decisively. To put an end to it. Approach the next handful of games in the same positive and confident manner, and that fifty point mark could be within reach much sooner than we’d thought possible. Not what we’d hoped for back in August, perhaps. But a bloody relief nonetheless.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2004-02-21
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/21-february-2004/#google_vignette

27th October 2001- New Division One, Bradford City 4 Watford 3

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There I was chatting to some familiar faces in the crowd, looking around to see which other familiar faces I could see, when I remembered that I perhaps better look at the players warming up and see who was playing. “This is odd,” I thought, “There’s a few faces I don’t recognise”. Then I looked around to see if I could work out who wasn’t playing. No Gayle (not too surprising), no Noble (slightly surprising), no Gifton (surprising), no Hyde (absolutely flabbergasting). I had heard nothing of injuries to Hyde, Gifton and Noble. Conspiracy theories ran riot. Had Noble gone back to Arsenal? What on earth was happening?

The team was announced with numbers from 1 to 16, in direct conflict to the numbers they had on their shorts. This resulted in Hughes wearing shirt number 4 with shorts numbered 10, and Helguson in shirt number 10 wearing shorts with number 18.

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