Category Archives: George Kirby

3rd January 2009- FA Cup Third Round, Watford 1 Scunthorpe United 0

Grzegorz Rasiak’s second half goal sent championship side Watford into the fourth round of the FA Cup at the expense of League One Scunthorpe.

We’ve seen some awful cup performances in recent years (in stark contrast to one era in our history in particular).  But this was a particularly disconcerting flavour of awful.  Lots of possession, very little penetration, an incomprehensible retraction back to a lone striker once we got ahead… it all felt a bit Vialli again somehow.

‘The band and the goal, that was all that was worth seeing’ I heard a bloke on the way out say and he was right. Still, its nice to be in the next round.

More games from 3rd January at https://oldwatford.com/tag/jan3

31st March 1973-Division Three, Watford 1 Walsall 0

Obviously the date on the front cover is wrong!

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=2971
English Division Three (old)
Blackburn Rovers2-2Tranmere Rovers
Bristol Rovers1-2Southend United
Charlton Athletic1-1Bournemouth
Chesterfield2-1Rochdale
Grimsby Town0-1Wrexham
Oldham Athletic1-1Notts County
Plymouth Argyle2-1Port Vale
Rotherham United1-0Bolton Wanderers
Swansea City2-0Halifax Town
Watford1-0Walsall
York City0-1Brentford
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8th April 1972- Division Two, Burnley 3 Watford 0

The article in the Football League Review, given away with this and many programmes at the time, was very out of date. Our relegation had already been confirmed a week earlier.

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=2922
https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1972-04-08
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-two/08-april-1972/