Category Archives: Ray Lewington

21st August 2004-Championship, Leicester City 0 Watford 1

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14th August 2004- Championship, Watford 0 Burnley 1

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http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4610

BSAD imageBSAD report: Interestingly, there’s something of a difference of opinion at Vicarage Road right now. Roles reversed, unusually. Here, the expectations of the management team appear to be rather higher than those of many in the stands…which means me, although I know that I’m not alone in thinking that the lack of depth within the squad will cause us to struggle over the course of a nine month campaign. Judging by the reaction to this defeat, however, there’s a different agenda in the dressing room…which is very welcome indeed, particularly for those who hate to hear excuses about under-performance. I might think that this is all about survival, but that’s not a word that’s passed Ray Lewington’s lips much in recent interviews.

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9th August 2004- Championship, Watford 3 Queens Park Rangers 0

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4609

Ah, this is the stuff. It’s a local derby lite, ninety percent of the passion and drama and pantomime villainy…and no unhealthy additives. And it’s bleedin’ marvellous.

10th July 2004- Friendly, Fulham 0 Watford 0

Referee Mr P Walton took the recent FIFA edict that there should be no more than six substitutions in a friendly a little far and with both sides wanting to make more changes than were officially allowed he abandoned the game at half time.  Replacement officials had to be found before the second half continued as an ‘exhibition match’.

Fulham FC Official Website: A healthy pre-season crowd of just under 7,000 caught their first glimpse of a refurbished Craven Cottage at Saturday’s friendly against Watford.

9th May 2004- New Division One, Watford 1 Reading 0

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Ashley Young’s goal ended Reading’s faint hopes of earning a play-off spot.

Daily Telegraph, 10 May 2004
Evening Standard, 10 May 2004

It’ll be a very strange summer. But then, it’s already been a fairly strange year.

24th April 2004- New Division One, Watford 1 Norwich City 2

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4605

Newly-promoted Norwich moved another step closer to clinching the Division One title with goals from Damien Francis and Leon McKenzie. Debutant Dominic Blizzard set up a tense finale with a late header that ended Norwich’s 401-minute shut-out.

They didn’t know whether to celebrate or to worry. There were nearly 5,000 Norwich fans here, another 6,000 watching a beam-back at Carrow Road and more than 3,000 had turned up to watch a midweek reserve game and listen to the closing minutes of Crystal Palace’s victory over Sunderland that had confirmed City’s promotion to the Premiership.

So, this was someone else’s day. Appropriately, it was largely someone else’s game too…which isn’t to say that we were massively outclassed, merely that only the last ten or fifteen minutes suggested that the result wasn’t an inevitability. A bit of a disappointment, then, for it would’ve been lovely to have kept this little run going, building up some proper momentum at last. In the end, we’ll just have to be content with the knowledge that this could really have mattered, and hurt.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2004-04-24
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/24-april-2004/
24th April 2010- Championship, Watford 3 Reading 0