Category Archives: December

31st December 2005- Championship, Watford 1 Crystal Palace 2

Andy Johnson’s penalty made it three straight wins for Palace and closed the gap on their play-off rivals.

He’s right about one thing, is our Adrian. That penalty was a joke. The kind of thing that leaves a bitter, sour after-taste, that lingers after the result has stopped hurting. A very Crystal Palace way to lose a game. God forbid that we ever become like that, just means to an end.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2005-12-31

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/31-december-2005/

26th December 2005- Championship, Watford 3 Southampton 0

George Burley’s reign as Southampton manager got off to the worst possible start with a 3-0 defeat at Watford.

It’s quite exciting. The day after Christmas. What fantastic bargains will we get in the sales? What will the new year bring? Why did I get nervous when ig requested a proper match report, instead of my usual Boxing Day ramblings?

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2005-12-26

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/26-december-2005/

10th December 2005- Championship, Watford 1 Plymouth Argyle 1

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BSAD report: Around half an hour into the first period, Miles commented that it was “okay so far”. From someone who’s quick enough with a strong opinion, this was a statement so spectacularly radical that it required a serious double-take. Such generosity can only be explained by the festive spirit, or having spent most of the time playing computer games instead of watching properly. Because the first half, while considerably more competent than its counterpart seven days ago, offered the most dour, relentlessly unrewarding football seen at Vicarage Road since the last time that I wrote a sentence like this. It was “okay” only in the sense that nobody died.

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3rd December 2005- Championship, Watford 1 Brighton & Hove Albion 1

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Marlon King’s 10th goal of the season helped to extend Watford’s unbeaten league run to nine games.

BSAD report: It will be interesting to see whether Adrian Boothroyd’s evident displeasure at the performance has an effect when we take on Plymouth next week; it’s rare that consecutive fixtures are so similar in nature and therefore so easy to compare. He’s right to be annoyed – to summarise, this was largely woeful, and horrible to watch too – but it’s impossible to ignore the impact of injuries on a paper-thin squad, especially those to Ashley Young and Matthew Spring. It’s all very well to say that these situations merely provide opportunities for others…but that doesn’t ring quite true when you’re bringing on Jay Demerit to play as a forward for the last twenty minutes because you don’t have anyone else.

http://watford.fcdb.info?s=41405&id=4687

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28th December 2004- Championship, Watford 0 Cardiff City 0

Watford’s winless run continued as they were held to a draw at Vicarage Road by relegation-threatened Cardiff.

It only takes a second to score a goal. True, apparently. It takes an absolutely enormous number of seconds not to score a goal. Also true, from immediate personal experience.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2004-12-28

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/28-december-2004/

26th December 2004- Championship, Reading 3 Watford 0

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4637

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Reading kept up their promotion push as they cruised past struggling Watford.

…festive cheer has been spread throughout Hertfordshire and beyond by a sequence of results on the 26th December that (excluding today, but you can do your own maths) has seen us score just once in response to ten goals against. Because football doesn’t work like that, there’s a solitary win over Bristol City in 1998 – Gifton Noel-Williams by the corner flag, and all that – to confuse matters, but anyone looking for further highlights would have to make do with a couple of postponements. Or three nil-nil draws, including that one against Notts County and one at Wycombe twelve months later that has apparently (until now) been expunged from history in order to spare anyone from having to recall it.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2004-12-26

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/26-december-2004/