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8th April 2025- Championship, Watford 1 Hull City 0

WFC.Net goal commentary: 1

BBC: Moussa Sissoko’s second-half finish gave Watford victory over struggling Hull City to keep their faint hopes of a Championship play-off place alive.

Sky: Edo Kayembe almost fired Watford ahead after barely half a minute but saw his thunderbolt from the best part of 30 yards bounce back off the angle of the goal frame.

Watford Observer: RECAP: Watford 1 Hull 0

Five talking points as Sissoko seals Watford victory

Watford 1 Hull City 0 minute-by-minute report

Cleverley proud to see his young guns firing

Season over for Baah and Giorgi – but will they be here next term?

A distinct undertone of teenage kicks at Vicarage Road

Goal attempts bar set too high but result was all important

Three points from a display less impressive than others that earned none

BHappy: It should be no great surprise that so many of our home games have been desperately dull, particularly against the division’s weaker sides.  The likes of Hull and Plymouth have a template that has been more-or-lessworking here for visitors for weeks and the knowledge that in the absence of a striker that can hold the ball up there really isn’t any point in us playing long.

Frans Watford Blog: It wasn’t the greatest game of football, and it had a real end of season feel to it, but the Hornets created some decent chances and the goal was excellent, some lovely build-up play and a clever finish by Sissoko. But a win is a win, and we are still only six points off the play-offs which, given how poorly we have played for a lot of the season, shows how ridiculously close this division is.

From the Rookery End: The senior side will have been pleased to get back to winning ways in a game where the defence was the bright spot, while the U18s provided a timing endorsement of the work going on at the Academy with a hugely resilient performance against a very very strong Man City.

8th April 2017- Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur 4 Watford 0

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Watford Observer

RELIVE – Spurs v Watford: 11 first-half minutes prove the difference as Hornets battered

Watford well beaten by four-goal Spurs

Spurs’ third goal ‘cut our legs completely’

Mariappa was ‘one of the best today’

BBC Sport  Tottenham kept up the pressure on leaders Chelsea with an impressive home victory over Watford, their sixth consecutive Premier League win.  Watford had started brightly, but Dele Alli’s sumptuous strike – curled into the top corner after Son Heung-min’s pass – signalled their quick decline.

sky Tottenham kept up the pressure on Premier League leaders Chelsea as they swept past Watford 4-0 at White Hart Lane on Saturday.

guardian The traditional, daring swagger is intact and, with Harry Kane returning too, Tottenham can keep believing. They may be only on the edge of crazy, of greatness, but their tenacious presence just off the shoulder of Chelsea is still sufficient to keep the title race captivating.  Perhaps the seven-point gap will not be bridged after all, with only seven games remaining – but this expected victory over Watford was their sixth successive win in the Premier League and the seventh in eight games.

TelegraphThank God for Tottenham Hotspur. While Jose Mourinho talks up Manchester United’s unbeaten run to nowhere, Arsene Wenger bores us with his Arsenal contract saga, Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool remain unpredictable and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola confuses everybody, at least Spurs are doing everything in their power to make the Premier League title race interesting.

Independent Tottenham kept the pressure on league leaders Chelsea with a thrilling dispatch of London rivals Watford on Saturday afternoon at White Hart Lane, firing four past a side that struggled to match the quality and intensity of Mauricio Pochettino’s men.

FranThe lunchtime kick-off meant an earlier than usual departure for a London game.  I had arranged to meet my niece at Euston and decided to get an earlier train to give me time for a leisurely breakfast at Café Rouge (and very good it was too).  When Amelia arrived, we got the tube to Seven Sisters before taking a walk in the sunshine up Tottenham High Road to the stadium.  As we arrived at the security cordon outside the ground, there was a woman in front of us with a couple of children who had “Daddy 6” on the back of their shirts.  How lovely to see Mariappa’s young family back in Watford kit.

screen-shot-2016-10-30-at-15-22-53 In hindsight 4-0 was probably a little bit harsh. 

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2017-04-08
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/premier-league/08-april-2017/

8th April 2014- Championship, Watford 3 Leeds United 0

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WFC.Net Goal Commentary: 1  2  3

BBC: Almen Abdi gave Watford an early lead when he nodded home Ikechi Anya’s cross, before Anya headed the second from Marco Davide Faraoni’s centre. Troy Deeney’s close-range strike left Watford seven points off sixth with a game in hand. Leeds have one win in 12.

BHappy: There was an “on the cardsness” about this one.  Those dropped points on Saturday, embers of resentment and regret at the outcome of this fixture last season, United’s not-even-a-little-bit funny plummet down the table with attention diverted and management precarious all pointed in one direction.  One of those emphatic and yet routine wins borne of a superiority that you really wish we could distribute a little more evenly across the season’s fixtures, but life doesn’t work like that.

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8th April 2000- Premier League, Watford 0 Derby County 0

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BSAD image One league, twenty teams, enough hot air to keep Richard Branson in world record attempts for the rest of his life.

So what have we discovered on our year-long fact-finding mission? What will we tell our Nationwide chums upon our return? That it’s quite impossible for clubs of our size to survive in the top flight? That there’s a gap so great that it can never be bridged without the help of either massive resources or Kevin Phillips? That there’s no point in even trying?

Not really. As long as the Premiership remains at its current size, it will contain enough guff ‘n’ nonsense for a club of our stature – and, more importantly, our strength – to scrap towards the forty point mark.

English Premier LeagueTable »
Bradford City1-2Southampton
Leicester City1-1Everton
Sunderland2-1Wimbledon
Watford0-0Derby County
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8th April 1996- New Division One, Southend United 1 Watford 1

Programme images courtesy of Matt Hall

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Daily Mirror, 9 Apr 1996

BSAD: It is games like this that really make you wonder why. This game last year saw Darren Bazeley’s finest 22 minutes – a first-half hat-trick in a 4-0 win. How times have changed. Like most Hornets, I went down to Southend early so I could go to the seaside. It was a lovely day and everywhere you looked a yellow or burgundy shirt was lurking. Armed with an inflatable hammer (I still have the bruises – Ed) and a cuddly sheep for Rams, I trundled off to the delights of Roots Hall.

Independent, 9 Apr 1996