Category Archives: May

10th May 1993- London Five-a-side Football Championship (at Wembley Arena)

Watford won the tournament beating Wimbledon on penalties in the final.

Evening Standard, 10 May 1993

Comicus Article- Football Nostalgia: London Evening Standard 5-A-Side Tournament

Evening Standard, 11 May 1993

8th May 1993- New Division One, Watford 0 Oxford United 1

Steve Perryman’s last programme notes.

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4035
English Division OneTable »
Barnsley1-0Swindon Town
Birmingham City1-0Charlton Athletic
Bristol City4-1Brentford
Derby County2-0Wolverhampton Wndrs
Millwall0-3Bristol Rovers
Notts County3-1Sunderland
Peterborough United1-1Tranmere Rovers
Portsmouth2-1Grimsby Town
Southend United2-1Luton Town
Watford0-1Oxford United
West Ham United2-0Cambridge United
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2nd May 1992- Division Two, Watford 5 Bristol City 2

Luther Blissett came on as a sub for his 503rd and final competitive Watford appearance. He marked the occasion by scoring his 148th goal. Both are club records. The game was also notable as Bristol City had three players sent off in three minutes including former Hornet Wayne Allison.

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=3982
18th September 1999-Premier League, Watford 1 Chelsea 0

11th May 1991- Division Two, Watford 2 Bristol City 3

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=3930
English Division Two (old)Table »
Barnsley1-0Middlesbrough
Brighton and Hove A2-1Ipswich Town
Bristol Rovers1-1West Bromwich Albion
Leicester City1-0Oxford United
Millwall2-1Blackburn Rovers
Newcastle United1-2Hull City
Oldham Athletic3-2Sheffield Wednesday
Plymouth Argyle2-0Charlton Athletic
Port Vale3-1Swindon Town
Watford2-3Bristol City
West Ham United1-2Notts County
Wolverhampton Wndrs3-1Portsmouth
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4th May 1991- Division Two, Oxford United 0 Watford 1

This victory ensured we avoided relegation, something which had looked unlikely from the beginning of September when we slipped into the bottom three. Other than for a brief period over Christmas we remained there until 27th April.

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=3929
Sunday Telegraph, 5 May 1991
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BSAD imageSo onto Oxford and three thousand five hundred fans piled down the M40 for a date with destiny.

Wearing the white away shirts, the Horns scrapped for everything and, with James in goal, one always felt we had a reasonable chance if he didn’t drop a clanger. I remember little of the game until about the sixtieth minute. The Horns won a corner, the cross came in and Paul Wilkinson (surely one of the better strikers to play for the Horns, even if he didn’t know the offside rule) smashed the ball home.

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