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2nd May 2010- Championship, Coventry City 0 Watford 4

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Two goals in as many minutes helped Watford finish their season in style with a thumping victory over Coventry.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2010-05-02

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/02-may-2010/

3rd May 2009- Championship, Watford 3 Derby County 1

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Brendan Rodgers last programme notes. This was the game where John Eustace, a Watford player but on loan to Derby, played against us and scored.

Two goals from Grzegorz Rasiak helped Watford to a victory that was not quite as emphatic as the scoreline suggests.

OK, so final day of the season, not much to play for (save finishing above Palace, always nice…). But given that… what a very fine way to end the campaign. Nigel Clough’s assertion that the first goal was pivotal was probably fair enough – the game was wide open from the start – but the implication that the Rams were worth something woefully optimistic.

https://oldwatford.com/2019/01/19/19th-january-2019-premier-league-watford-0-burnley-0/

14th May 2008- Championship Playoff Semi-Final Second Leg, Hull City 4 Watford 1 (Hull City won 6-1 on aggregate)

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Hull City are to make their first ever appearance at Wembley after a 6-1 aggregate win over Watford in the Championship play-offs.

Darius Henderson scored from close range after 12 minutes to give Watford hope of retrieving a two-goal deficit.

We were closer to pulling this off than the final scoreline ultimately suggests, and the half-hour during which we lead the game and the hosts were increasingly bricking it was the most enjoyable of the season. Unfortunately, we haven’t done “keep it tight” convincingly for a while.

11th May 2008- Championship Playoff Semi-Final First Leg, Watford 0 Hull City 2

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I haven’t done the research but I think we must have set a record of being the only club to ever achieve our lowest league attendance of the season in the first leg of a playoff game. We had attracted over 15,000 to every other league game in 07/08 but our terrible form of just one win in 14 games which saw us scrape into the playoffs meant only 14,713 turned up. In comparison 18,535 attended the first leg against Birmingham in 1999, the third highest home crowd of the 98/99 season.

Goals from veteran pair Nicky Barmby and Dean Windass put Hull within sight of the Championship play-off final. Watford had a goal harshly disallowed in the fourth minute and fell behind shortly after when Fraizer Campbell set up Barmby to sidefoot home.

To make matters worse for Adrian Boothroyd’s men, skipper John Eustace was given a straight red card after a second-half scuffle.

Yes, okay, so we lost. And we can’t defend. And, well, Dean Windass. But that was rather fun wasn’t it?

https://oldwatford.com/2008/05/13/14th-may-2008-championship-playoff-semi-final-second-leg-hull-city-4-watford-1-hull-city-won-6-1-on-aggregate/

4th May 2008- Championship, Blackpool 1 Watford 1

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Watford secured a play-off place by the skin of their teeth while Blackpool preserved their Championship status.

If anyone’s in any doubt about whether getting promoted would be a Good Thing, the alternative would include welcoming back the Nottingham Forest “we won the European Cup you know” brigade next season…

13th May 2007- Premier League, Watford 1 Newcastle United 1

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This was an emotional day for those in Watford’s goal. Ben Foster played the final game of his two season loan spell from Manchester United. He was substituted in the 90th minute for Alec Chamberlain who came on for the last game in a career that spanned 25 years and 678 appearances, over 250 of them for Watford. The one minute cameo made Alec the second oldest Premier League player ever at 42 years 327 days only beaten by Manchester City’s John Rudge who was 43 when he played for them in 1995. Alec continued to work at Vicarage Road as a goalkeeper coach until 2017. Ben Foster, of course, would return to Watford in 2018.