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18th April 2026- Championship, Watford 0 Sheffield United 2

Watford Observer: ‘This is what Watford do’ narrative has made me angrier since Oxford, Still says

Still knows he needs results to secure Watford future – ‘I’m not kidding myself’

Team news: Maamma in contention to start, Ngakia and Bola could return

‘The summer is the time to discuss what leadership looks like at Watford’

Supporters’ anger ‘totally normal’ and not an overreaction, says Still

Nabizada: The fans want to see creativity – that’s what I’m trying to do

Watford Observer: MATCHDAY AS IT HAPPENED: Watford 0-2 Sheffield United

Match Report: Watford beaten 2-0 by Sheff Utd as lifeless season finale continues

WATCH: Immediate reaction to Watford 0-2 Sheffield United

Still: ‘Baah hasn’t had the impact I wanted’

Still adamant he is the man to lead significant change after another defeat

BBC: Patrick Bamford’s second-half double helped Sheffield United to victory at out-of-form Watford.

Sky: The striker’s sharpness in front of goal made the difference and lifted Chris Wilder’s side above their opponents in the bright spring sunshine at Vicarage Road.

Fran’s Watford Blog: It was another disappointing game. We should have taken the lead in the first half and certainly started the second half very brightly. The first United goal was fortunate and against the run of play. Their second was rather better and, once that went in, the fight seemed to go out of the players, and we never really looked like getting back in the game. Again, Irankunda and Maamma were the bright sparks, working to create chances, but shots from distance and a well organised United defence frustrated them.

From the Rookery End: Jon, Kieran, Mike and Jason are back outside the Hornet Shop after another tough afternoon as Watford FC fall to a 2–0 defeat at home to Sheffield United. There’s no hiding from it — this was a flat, lifeless performance that summed up where the football team is right now. The lads reflect on some hints at something successful, before everything unravelled in depressingly familiar fashion. With belief draining from both pitch and stands, attention turns to the bigger picture — from recruitment failures to the direction under Gino Pozzo, who was in attendance at the game.

18th April 2025- Championship, Watford 1 Burnley 2

WFC.Net goal commentary: 1

Report: Watford 1-2 Burnley – Watford FC Download

BBC: Burnley came from a goal down to win at nine-man Watford and take a big step towards sealing automatic promotion back to the Premier League.

Sky: Josh Brownhill’s 14th goal of the Championship season had given the visitors the lead before Watford imploded with midfielders Moussa Sissoko and Edo Kayembe sent off within nine minutes of each other, both for collecting two yellow cards.

Watford Observer: RECAP: Watford 1 Burnley 2

Five talking points as Sissoko and Kayembe see red in defeat

Watford 1 Burnley 2 minute-by-minute report

No ire aimed at ref as Cleverley admits: ‘We lost our heads a little bit’

Young Trafford the difference between 1-0 and 2-0

Blame the ref, blame the diving – but Watford caused their own wounds

BHappy: What they got was probably the worst possible roll of that dice as we made light of our missing star turns in attack and the end-of-seasonness to take the game to the Clarets in the opening period. This culminated in a terrific opener after eight minutes that had already seen Burnley have to work rather harder than they had probably expected to need to as Dwomoh, a decent mix of deft footwork and less deft aggression throughout, and Louza began to ping the ball around. Vata was afforded far too much space on the left flank to swing a ball in which was sculpted towards Doumbia’s head but the teenager still had loads to do and it was textbook… downward and firm, not right in the corner but powerful enough to wriggle past Trafford’s grasp. Clive and Nicky had been fretting pre-match at the future of a forward line that will surely need strengthening over the summer but it’ll be a hell of a signing that displaces Doumbia when fully fit. On the evidence so far, he’s going to be a monster.

Fran’s Watford Blog: We all agreed that what had been a cracking game for the first hour was totally spoiled by the dark arts employed by the visitors and the referee consistently falling for them. It wasn’t helped by idiocy from Sissoko who should have known better than to argue with the referee and then react to the provocation from Flemming. I felt that the second yellow for Kayembe was more forgivable as it was a very soft foul. I have a great deal of admiration for the rest of the team as the nine men worked their socks off and held out again a team who are almost sure of promotion. They fought to the end and were unlucky not to come away with a point. A special mention goes to Mattie Pollock for making sure that there were no more dismissals as tempers flared.

18th April 2015- Championship, Watford 1 Birmingham City 0

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Craig Cathcart’s stunning goal gave Watford a narrow victory over Birmingham as they moved top of the Championship and ensured automatic promotion is in their own hands.

The Hornets went into the game knowing a win would take them back into the automatic promotion places following Middlesbrough’s victory at Norwich on Friday.

We’ve not half had some games against this lot. Some will remember victory in the Cup in 1960… Cliff Holton helping the fourth division newly-christened Hornets to knock top-flight Blues out in front of 31,000 at the Vic. In 1984 perhaps the most impressive single result of our run to the Cup Final came at St Andrews; Ron Saunders’ aggressive side came into the game on the back of a twelve-match unbeaten run in the top flight and had the majority of a 40,000 crowd behind them. John Barnes ripped them to bits. In 1999 a play-off semi-final concluded with an epic penalty shoot out that resulted in our second trip to Wembley.

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18th April 2009- Championship, Watford 0 Birmingham City 1

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Cameron Jerome stepped off the bench to fire in a late winner at Watford and put Birmingham in pole position to join neighbours Wolves in winning promotion.

Watford goalkeeper Scott Loach had earlier had an inspired 45 minutes to frustrate a dominant Birmingham in the first half. But Brendan Rodgers’ side were much improved after the break and could have gone ahead themselves before Jerome made the breakthrough.

A patchy performance saw Watford give as good as they got in the second half and left the manager grateful to his reserve goalkeeper, Colin Doyle, starting a league game for the first time this season. He turned a goal-bound Grzegorz Rasiak header past a post just after the hour.

A touching send-off for Mike Keen before kickoff, with the Birmingham fans adding their applause to that of everyone connected with the club he once managed. I wasn’t around in any meaningful sense back then, I’m afraid, but Simon Marchant was and you can read his tribute here.

18th April 1992- Division Two, Charlton Athletic 1 Watford 1

The game was played at Upton Park which Charlton were sharing before returning to The Valley in December 1992.

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18th April 1989- Division Two, Watford 5 Walsall 0

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English Division Two (old)	Table »
Birmingham City	1-2	Swindon Town
Watford	5-0	Walsall
English Division Three (old)	Table »
Bristol City	6-1	Huddersfield Town
Cardiff City	0-1	Notts County
Southend United	1-1	Brentford
English Sherpa Vans Trophy Northern Final 2nd Leg
Blackpool	1-1	Bolton Wanderers	aet (1-2)
English Sherpa Vans Trophy Southern Final 2nd Leg
Wolverhampton Wndrs	0-2	Torquay United	(2-3)

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