Category Archives: Graham Taylor

7th April 2001- New Division One, Watford 2 Crystal Palace 2

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4447

BSAD report: As you’ll know, there’s only one channel worth watching on Saturday morning. It’s ITV, where Ant and Dec’s wonderfully entertaining “SM:TV” manages to be clever, childish and amusing, without slipping into the irritating smugness that spoils the vast majority of yoof TV. That said, anyone who didn’t do a bit of channel-flicking during the cartoons yesterday would’ve missed a classic Graham Taylor moment on the BBC’s (irritatingly smug) “Live & Kicking”….

A football quiz. Two youngsters – one, a fan of Arsenal; the other, a fan of Watford. It being the semi-final of whatever this thing is, there are messages for the contestants. For the Arsenal fan, David Seaman drones his way through a couple of sentences, looking as if someone’s holding a gun to his back. For the Watford fan, GT appears, animated and full of encouragement, with fist clenched and pumping – “Go on, Andrew! You can do it! Go on!”. He gives it some welly, in short.

Why? Because you know that he understands what the message will mean to its recipient. Because it might’ve taken five minutes from his busy schedule…but it’ll be remembered forever by that young lad and, therefore, it should be something that’s worth remembering. Because he’s Graham Taylor. And, more than anything else, you wonder how anyone ever found it in their heart to abuse and be so bloody rude to such a wonderful man.

Inevitably, the Watford fan wins by a country mile. Unfortunately, this isn’t an omen.

English Division One	Table »
Fulham	0-0	West Bromwich Albion
Gillingham	4-3	Norwich City
Grimsby Town	3-1	Tranmere Rovers
Portsmouth	0-2	Nottingham Forest
Queens Park Rangers	1-3	Blackburn Rovers
Sheffield United	1-2	Barnsley
Stockport County	2-1	Sheffield Wednesday
Watford	2-2	Crystal Palace
Wimbledon	3-1	Birmingham City
Wolverhampton Wndrs	0-1	Huddersfield Town

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29th March 2001- Graham Taylor announces he will step down as Watford manager at the end of the season

Evening Standard, 29 Mar 2001

Guardian, 30 Mar 2001

Daily Telegraph, 30 Mar 2001

Independent, 30 Mar 2001

13th March 2001-New Division One, Watford 0 Burnley 1

Defeat against Burnley was annoying and frustrating rather than depressing and awful, but these are only different shades of miserable.

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10th March 2001- New Division One, Watford 4 Norwich City 1

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

BSAD report: Wherever you look, smiles as wide as the margin of victory. Which was very wide indeed.

Watford fought back from an early setback to end a lean run with only their second victory in seven games, as Norwich crumbled to defeat.

Independent, 11 Mar 2001

Daily Mirror, 12 Mar 2001

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13th September 2005-Championship, Watford 2 Norwich City 1

24th February 2001- New Division One, Watford 2 Stockport County 2

Promotion-chasing Watford suffered a major setback to their hopes against Stockport County at Vicarage Road.

This, my friends, was woeful.

GT is right to question their attitudes, and is realistic about the need for new players. Good. I’m plain insulted by this lot. In the old days, when we were good we were good. And when we were bad we were bad. But now when we could be good, we’re worse, and that’s just too much to bear.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2001-02-24

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/24-february-2001/

20th February 2001- New Division One, Watford 0 Blackburn Rovers 1

Before Stuart Attwell came along to take his place at the top of the league table of Villain Refs there was a man called Rob Styles.

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Blackburn gained three vital points in their promotion bid at the expense of rivals Watford with referee Rob Styles playing a major part in their success.

Guardian, 21 Feb 2001

Daily Telegraph, 21 Feb 2001

Independent, 21 Feb 2001

Evening Standard, 21 Feb 2001

This was one of those games, where discussing the football without first discussing the officials is impossible, where the man in black dominates proceedings to such an extent that the other twenty-four participants might as well have stayed at home, where seasons are turned on decisions made by arseholes. Hence, presumably, the fact that we’ve not yet had any comment from Graham Taylor.

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