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3rd February 2007- Premier League, Watford 0 Bolton Wanderers 1

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

Nicolas Anelka’s second-half strike was enough for Bolton to battle past bottom side Watford at Vicarage Road.

Rotherham is not an obvious place to dig for salvation in the Premiership. They are bottom of League One. But last month’s recruits, Will Hoskins and Lee Williamson, did not look out of place in Watford’s colours. It said as much about their new club as the normally voluble Aidy Boothroyd could manage afterwards.

At the finale, two men in black overcoats stood on the sidelines. Neither exuded happiness, but Sam Allardyce at least could claim relief, having bagged his first win in five weeks. After a triumphant December yielded a manager-of-the-month award and five straight league wins, a dreadful January ensued for the Bolton manager with just two points in four games. And Vicarage Road was hardly a popular destination for Bolton, 12 visits had previously brought just one win. For Aidy Boothroyd’s side, a win, as always, was needed. There were the eight new signings to justify and the small matter of scraping the side off the bottom of the table. Preceding the midweek Manchester United whipping, Watford had managed two wins on the trot and were hoping to continue their handiwork.

Independent, 4 Feb 2007

Sunday Telegraph, 4 Feb 2007

Today’s match report is: Ugly.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2007-02-03

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/premier-league/03-february-2007/

7th January 2006- FA Cup Third Round, Watford 0 Bolton Wanderers 3

Bolton cruised past Championship side Watford despite the absence of several key players to seal a place in the FA Cup fourth round.

The sides looked miles apart, such was the superiority of Bolton’s intelligence and movement. Watford fought back stirringly early in the second half without looking likely to disturb Bolton’s easy authority.

Bolton were missing most of their first team. Only three of the side which started against Liverpool on Monday were on show, with the increasingly relevant African Nations Cup taking several products of the Bolton youth scheme (sic!) away for a month, while suspensions and apparent injuries forced several other changes. Their substitutes did not have one first team performance between them!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_FA_Cup

3rd December 2000- New Division One, Bolton Wanderers 2 Watford 1

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

BBC Sport: Bolton recovered from a dreadful start to send Watford spinning to their fourth successive defeat in a game littered with defensive errors.

Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec 2000

The Guardian, 4 Dec 2000

Evening Standard, 4 Dec 2000

BSAD: “A game of two halves” was the fairly predictable quip employed by Sam Allardyce after the game, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. A better analogy would be that of a slowly swinging pendulum, or of a slab of concrete leaning on its side and then dislodged, teetering, teetering….

24th October 2000-New Division One, Watford 1 Bolton Wanderers 0

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BSAD report: Besides, we’re top of the league. Properly top of the league, not just keeping it warm for Fulham. All the other stuff still matters, of course…but the crap that life throws at you seems to stick less easily when you’ve got a league table to gaze lovingly at.

BSAD report: Today we sing, coz we love our team. They kept out a hard-working bunch of bastards who’d got an inexplicable grudge against us and interrupted our every attempt at complicated passing, which made us look like we either couldn’t get in the game or weren’t trying hard enough to do so.

BSAD report: All teams, including us, will go on a bad run at some stage during the season (as Fulham are demonstrating to a minor extent at the moment). We just have to hope ours won’t last too long, and that it doesn’t happen for a few games yet.

http://watford.fcdb.info?s=33679&id=4418

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31st May 1999- New Division One Playoff Final, Bolton Wanderers 0 Watford 2

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http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4359

Many BSAD reports:

We’ve only gone and bloody done it! We’ve only gone and bloody done it!

“Unforgettable”
“Wembley glory”
“Can life get any better?”
“Images”
“It’s a long way to…LA”
“The Horns of a dilemma?”
“If you want to get to heaven let me tell you how…”
“Something else”
“Fifteen years”
“The best day of my life”
“Tears at tea-time”
“Here’s to the next time”
“It’s a long way from…NG7”
“Nice and ‘isi”
“Emotion”
“Wembley’s Way”
“A magnificent obsession”
“A good day out”
“Why a grown man would cry”
“Winning at Wembley is better than losing on IRC”
“The Hornets have landed”
“Twenty years”
“Wem-ber-lee”
“The scoreboard said…”

Wembley photo gallery
Victory parade photo gallery

Goals from Nick Wright and Allan Smart sent Watford soaring into the Premiership after back-to-back promotions.

Minute by minute report

Daily Telegraph, 1 Jun 1999

Daily Record, 1 Jun 1999

Evening Standard, 1 Jun 1999

https://oldwatford.com/2014/08/09/9th-august-2014-championship-watford-3-bolton-wanderers-0/

Twenty Years Ago: Richard Johnson

Twenty Years Ago: Michel Ngonge

Twenty Years Ago: Micah Hyde

Twenty Years Ago: Ciaran Cosgrave

Twenty Years Ago: Tommy Mooney

Twenty Years Ago: Robert Page

Twenty Years Ago: Nick Wright

Play-Off Final 1999: Player & Staff Memories Of Graham Taylor

Time Capsules: Graham Taylor’s Miracle (1999)

Wright & Smart Narrate 1999 Play-Off Final

25 years on: Watford’s 1999 Play-off Triumph

In pictures: Graham Taylor and Watford FC’s 1999 play-off final success

https://oldwatford.com/2019/05/12/12th-may-2019-premier-league-watford-1-west-ham-united-4/

10th April 1999- New Division One, Watford 2 Bolton Wanderers 0

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http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4351

Sunday Telegraph, 11 Apr 1999

Sunday People, 11 Apr 1999

Observer, 11 Apr 1999

Sunday Mirror, 11 Apr 1999

BSAD report: Back in GT’s heyday, there was never any question of waiting to find out what the opposition was going to do. No polite introductions. So it was here – while Bolton were courteously allowing the game to settle into a pattern, we rudely elbowed them out of the way and hurled ourselves lemming-like at their goal. Within a minute, Mooney sent Wright sprinting through, only for Banks to charge from his line to clear – that was not to be the last time that the Bolton keeper saved his team-mates.

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