Category: Malky Mackay

5th December 2015- Premier League, Watford 2 Norwich City 0

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Highlights | Watford 2-0 Norwich

Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo both scored as Watford earned a deserved win over struggling Norwich.

Deeney stepped up to finish past Declan Rudd after Alexander Tettey had fouled Ighalo in the area. And Ighalo netted his ninth goal of the season in second-half stoppage time after combining well with Deeney.

In harness with Deeney, the club captain, Ighalo has scored nine times and the pair have contributed over 80 per cent of Watford’s goals whereas Norwich, who are in real danger now after only one win in the past 10 league games, are struggling for goals.

“I love my strikers and I love the team we have,” their manager said after seeing his side move up to ninth. “We have passion, we have ambition and we have soul. I have an amazing feeling with these players and they are loving the Premier League.

Having arrived in the Premier League as a team playing reasonably open football on a sensible budget with a fashionable young manager, Norwich have every right to feel a bit peeved that everyone’s fawning over Bournemouth. It’s like they’ve turned up at a fancy dress party as Olaf from Frozen, only to find that someone else had that idea first and had a mum with a fancy sewing machine; they’re now in the bathroom desperately attempting to improvise an abominable snowman costume instead.

I’ll leave you with this. Six years ago we were hours way from administration. Now after the first weekend in December we sit in the top half of the Premier League.

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More games from 5th December at https://oldwatford.com/tag/dec5

12th April 2011- Championship, Watford 2 Norwich City 2

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.

English League Championship	Table »
Barnsley	0-1	Queens Park Rangers
Derby County	2-1	Leeds United
Doncaster Rovers	1-1	Preston North End
Ipswich Town	3-3	Middlesbrough
Leicester City	1-1	Crystal Palace
Millwall	0-0	Bristol City
Nottingham Forest	2-0	Burnley
Portsmouth	0-3	Coventry City
Scunthorpe United	0-2	Reading
Sheffield United	0-2	Cardiff City
Swansea City	1-1	Hull City
Watford	2-2	Norwich City

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12th March 2011- Championship, Watford 3 Sheffield United 0

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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).

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5th March 2011- Championship, Watford 1 Millwall 0

Danny Graham’s 21st goal of the season proved decisive as Watford edged out a narrow win against Millwall.

It’s all about the points, quite obviously. However theoretical the threat of relegation had been before kick-off, the winless run will have had many glancing down the table and calculating our margin of safety. Malky’s assertion that many of the dropped points can cite mitigating circumstances and stout performances wasn’t inaccurate, but with a young team and a small squad we were always at risk of building downward momentum. In spite of which, and in spite in particular of the blows to our midfield this week (see below), this was a fine, spirited performance. Millwall contributed in no small part to a game that was far more watchable than a 1-0 home win in a mid-table encounter might suggest… they played an open game, which suits us now as much as it did at the New Den at the beginning of the season. In reality the result could easily have gone the other way but the best move of the game won it, the incomparable Graham applying yet another effortlessly ruthless finish to Cowie’s visionary pass.

More games from 5th March at https://oldwatford.com/tag/mar5

22nd February 2011- Championship, Watford 1 Bristol City 3

One of those games.

15th February 2011-Championship, Watford 2 Preston North End 2

Preston threw away a two-goal lead to leave manager Phil Brown still searching for his first win since taking over at the rock-bottom Championship club.

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Every series of Masterchef – mmm, topical – has an awful lot of contestants. That being the case, a helping hand is provided in the shape of a short, simple label for us to remember each one by, a three-words-or-less summary of their entire existence prior to having their life changed by cooking scallops with a minted pea puree for Greg and Jeff. (I know it’s not Jeff, but I can’t be bothered to look it up.)

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29th January 2011-FA Cup Fourth Round, Watford 0 Brighton & Hove Albion 1

Ashley Barnes gives Brighton deserved FA Cup success at Watford

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23rd October 2010- Championship, Watford 0 Scunthorpe United 2

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Scunthorpe picked up a second league win of the week to cause an upset as Watford’s fine form came to an end.

This one stank to high heaven… and there exists no more reliable an indicator of an awful performance than the home crowd, at 2-0 down, booing the display of four added minutes at the end of the game as being too long.

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28th September 2010- Championship, Watford 2 Swansea City 3

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