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25th March 2014- Championship, Watford 3 Blackburn Rovers 3

Referee: Darren Sheldrake
Attendance: 13,921

An injury-time header from Rudy Gestede secured a point for Blackburn at Vicarage Road, denying Watford a seventh straight home win.

So, this is all a bit weird. For the first time in twenty-odd years, I’m visiting – definitely feels like visiting – Vicarage Road with almost no context in which to place the game I’m about to see. Last time around, a little person’s lifetime ago, it was all George Thorne and Diego Fabbrini and getting stuffed at home by Yeovil; our habit of wandering around with immaculate hair and shoelaces undone had, inevitably, led to us plunging head-first towards the bottom of a steep flight of stairs. All of last season’s joie de vivre had gone, leaving only the witless confusion of that ridiculous, disastrous second half against Leeds, the pivotal moment of Gianfranco Zola’s reign. It wasn’t any fun.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2014-03-25

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/25-march-2014/

1st October 2013- Championship, Blackburn Rovers 1 Watford 0

https://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

BBC: Jordan Rhodes scored his ninth goal in seven games to fire Blackburn to victory and end Watford’s three-match league winning streak.

Fran’s Watford Blog: The home side went ahead on 64 minutes. From a long throw, a back header from Dann reached Rhodes who headed past Almunia. The home side’s confidence grew at this and we never really looked like getting anything from the game.

Guardian, 2 Oct 2013

20th April 2013- Championship, Watford 4 Blackburn Rovers 0

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5062

Watford kept their slim automatic promotion hopes alive with a comprehensive demolition of 10-man Blackburn at Vicarage Road.

Hull remain favourites for second place, but Watford’s much superior goal difference means the Tigers will need to win at least one of their remaining fixtures to prevent a late charge from the Vicarage Road club, who have now mathematically secured at least a play-off spot.

Troy Deeney scored twice for the Championship’s third-placed team and if their hopes of hauling in Hull’s four-point cushion with two matches remaining seem far-fetched, the form of the club’s strikeforce bodes well with playoffs on the agenda. Zola left the Championship player of the year, Matej Vydra, on the bench and the 20-goal striker was hardly missed as his replacement, Fernando Forestieri, set up the first three goals.

The scoreline tells one story. The narrative of the match itself, however, is not (merely) one of us putting inadequate opponents to the sword. In fact it followed the template of several of our big wins this season; against Huddersfield in the snow in January we laboured for a bit against a side hellbent on stopping us from playing – and once we had gotten that first goal we were gone, galloping off into the sunset with the points and never looking back.

https://oldwatford.com/2013/05/04/4th-may-2013-championship-watford-1-leeds-united-2/

27th October 2012- Championship, Blackburn Rovers 1 Watford 0

On the day of the game the article below appeared in the Independent.

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

BBC Sport: Jordan Rhodes’ injury-time winner against Watford gave Blackburn Rovers caretaker manager Eric Black a second straight win.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-10-27

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/27-october-2012/

23rd January 2007- Premier League, Watford 2 Blackburn Rovers 1

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

BBC: Jay DeMerit’s header sank Blackburn to give rock-bottom Watford only their second Premiership win of the season.

Guardian: The odds are that, in the greater scheme of things, this will make no difference, but you could hardly blame the supporters of Watford FC for living for the moment. Long and loud were the celebrations after their second league win of the season, and the most satisfying thing must have been how thoroughly deserved it was.

Daily Telegraph, 24 Jan 2007

Independent, 24 Jan 2007

Evening Standard, 24 Jan 2007

BHappy: Now that I’ve remembered it, the one-word match report is…

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2007-01-23

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/premier-league/23-january-2007/

20th February 2001- New Division One, Watford 0 Blackburn Rovers 1

Before Stuart Attwell came along to take his place at the top of the league table of Villain Refs there was a man called Rob Styles.

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Blackburn gained three vital points in their promotion bid at the expense of rivals Watford with referee Rob Styles playing a major part in their success.

Guardian, 21 Feb 2001

Daily Telegraph, 21 Feb 2001

Independent, 21 Feb 2001

Evening Standard, 21 Feb 2001

This was one of those games, where discussing the football without first discussing the officials is impossible, where the man in black dominates proceedings to such an extent that the other twenty-four participants might as well have stayed at home, where seasons are turned on decisions made by arseholes. Hence, presumably, the fact that we’ve not yet had any comment from Graham Taylor.

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