For anyone worried that the season might fizzle out, a properly tasty game of football. Any mention of officials in the first thunk is inevitably followed by a tirade…but this is the exception, for Mr A Taylor’s contribution, while sometimes inconsistent and occasionally slightly bewildering, should be heartily applauded by all card-carrying members of the Campaign for Real Tackling.
Norwich’s automatic promotion push was dealt another blow as they were held to a draw at Watford.
Norwich’s quest for promotion was dealt another blow after a 2-2 draw at Watford saw them slip out of the top two in the Championship.
12th April 2011- Championship, Watford 2 Norwich City 2
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12th March 2011- Championship, Watford 3 Sheffield United 0
Relegation-threatened Sheffield United were reduced to nine men inside 34 minutes as they were beaten at Watford.
Interpretation of the result will be distorted by the perspective introduced by two red cards in the first half (see below), but it shouldn’t be. It’s perfectly possible to make heavy weather of a numerical advantage, and on this occasion we did anything but, belying the number of kids on show (which was considerable, even if this was as experienced a line-up as we’ve been able to field of late).
15th February 2011-Championship, Watford 2 Preston North End 2
Middlesbrough’s struggles continued as two goals from the club’s former trainee Danny Graham helped Watford to a comfortable victory at Vicarage Road.
Five thunks from another win. “Crikey”, would be the first, take that as read.
