12th September 1998-New Division One, Watford 2 Queens Park Rangers 1

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Screen Shot 2016-09-01 at 22.52.13BSAD report:One player made me leave Vicarage Road feeling thrilled, rather than merely content. On this evidence, Nick Wright is a potential Vic Road hero.

Sunday Telegraph, 13 Sep 1998
Sunday Mirror, 13 Sep 1998
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Watford Observer Review of the Season

8th September 1998- New Division One, Huddersfield Town 2 Watford 0

Programme images courtesy of Matt Hall

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BSAD: The teams came out on to the pitch to a deafening rendition of the theme tune from “The Omen” (I kid you not) which quite successfully drowned out any crowd noise there might have been. We started with what appeared to be a fairly balanced though defensive line-up, with Gibbs, Kennedy, Palmer, Millen, and Yates in defence, Smart, Micah, and Johnno in midfield, and Ngonge and Smart leading the forward line.

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 8 Sep 1998
Daily Mirror, 9 Sep 1998

28th August 1998- New Division One, Watford 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2

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BSAD imageBSAD report: The first weeks of the season have offered a microcosm of Division One. The majority, including the sides we’ve already beaten, are charitable enough both in missing and donating chances that we have nothing to fear. Then there are the serious contenders – the teams that punish errors, the teams that have dealt with us comfortably.

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22nd August 1998-New Division One, Bristol City 1 Watford 4

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BSAD imageBSAD report: Oh Graham, strike us down with a thunderbolt from heaven for ever having doubted you.

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Sunday People, 23 Aug 1998
Sunday Telegraph, 23 Aug 1998
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18th August 1998-League Cup First Round Second Leg, Watford 1 Cambridge Utd 1 (Cambridge won 2-1 on aggregate)

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BSAD imageA bit of inaudible mumbling from the PA, an unmistakable rattle of drums and it’s back. “Z Cars” returns to Vicarage Road, unheralded but still welcomed with open arms. It might well be a godforsaken wailing mess of a tune, so old and dusty and dated that no amount of revamping will ever save it, but it’s ourgodforsaken wailing mess of a tune. Which, if you think about it, is a pretty good metaphor for what supporting a football club ought to be about.

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