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26th December 2007- Championship, Watford 2 Cardiff City 2

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4787

Jobi McAnuff’s last-gasp goal rescued a point for Championship pace-setters Watford against visiting Cardiff City.

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Watford started Boxing Day on top of the table yet the growing dissatisfaction around Vicarage Road suggested anything but; by the evening they were second. Jobi McAnuff’s volleyed equaliser, scored so deep into injury-time that the Cardiff City manager, Dave Jones, called foul play, could only paper over the cracks for a side whose home form is rapidly undermining their title credentials.

We remain painfully easy to play against at Vicarage Road, as revealed by yet another committed but mediocre side. A bit of guile in the transfer window, whether permanent or on loan, appears essential.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2007-12-26

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/26-december-2007/

19th September 2007- Championship, Cardiff City 1 Watford 2

BBC Sport:Darius Henderson bagged his fourth and fifth goals in three games to send Watford to the top of the Championship.

Daily Telegraph, 20 Sep 2007

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2007-09-19

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/19-september-2007/

25th February 2006- Championship, Watford 2 Cardiff City 1

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Ricardo Scimeca’s late blunder gifted Watford the win against visiting promotion rivals Cardiff City.

We started smartly and very positively, no punting to the touchline this week, just some neat simple passes which reaped almost instant rewards – though not from Eagles’ first touch forty-five yards out, despite this being greeted with cries of “Shoot!” Our first attack won a corner and led to the Hammer’s best effort of the whole match, which whistled past the far post after less than a minute’s play. But almost for the next eighty-nine, it seemed, the ball avoided the muddy pitch as much as possible, and was thus at the wind’s mercy. Despite spending most of the first half in the Cardiff penalty area, it also avoided the net, despite us forcing corner after corner, and some great crosses coming in from Eagles on the right. Cardiff’s defending was frantic early on, the ball even winding up near my old seat in the Upper Rous, which is more than it ever managed when I sat there week after week a few years ago. Where Darius would normally be alongside Marlon, up stepped Malky Mackay, and his was the eleventh minute header that first looked like breaking the deadlock. It beat Cardiff keeper Alexander, unlike many later efforts, but rebounded off the bar and Demerit couldn’t get his own header past Alexander’s impressive reach.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2006-02-25

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/25-february-2006/

12th August 2005- Championship, Cardiff City 1 Watford 3

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4665

Marlon King’s double helped Watford to an easy win over Coca-Cola Championship rivals Cardiff at Ninian Park.

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It’s difficult to know what to expect from this evening. The starting line-up is the eleven that finished at Plymouth, and the ferocity of the second half performance in Devon leaves me trying to contain my hopes for more of the same. Apart from anything else, our hosts are themselves coming off the back of an impressive win over Leeds just three days ago, and the paddock along the stand from us is busy and boisterous. Improbably, more of the same is exactly what we get.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2005-08-12

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2005-08-13

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/14-august-2005/

28th December 2004- Championship, Watford 0 Cardiff City 0

Watford’s winless run continued as they were held to a draw at Vicarage Road by relegation-threatened Cardiff.

It only takes a second to score a goal. True, apparently. It takes an absolutely enormous number of seconds not to score a goal. Also true, from immediate personal experience.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2004-12-28

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/28-december-2004/

14th September 2004- Championship, Cardiff City 0 Watford 3

The last match we could sing the ‘Terry and Ray’ chant. After the game Ray Lewington’s assistant Terry Burton agreed to take up the same position with the Bluebirds.

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

Daily Telegraph, 15 Sep 2004

Evening Standard, 15 Sep 2004

BSAD report: Good omens or no, it appeared that a number of Hornets had considered the “this is stupid” line of argument rather more seriously than we had, with only two hundred and fifty travelling fans in the away end, a figure in part explained by the fact that this was the least accessible of three consecutive away trips within the next week. I can’t help but feel that many Hornets have missed out over the last couple of seasons though… Ninian Park is hardly the most salubrious ground in the division, but it boasts an away terrace, a low roof and a bar area which combined to fuel a better atmosphere than has been achieved by many times as large a travelling support elsewhere in the recent past.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2004-09-14

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/14-september-2004/