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27th May 2013- Championship Playoff Final, Crystal Palace 1 Watford 0 (After Extra Time)

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5067

It’s really not the old Wembley, is it? True, the old Wembley smelt of sour tramp when you got up close and it felt as though it might just fall down if everyone jumped at once…but not even the stale piss of a dozen generations could hide the essential romance of the place, the sense of that-happened-over-there history. This…well, it has the moneyed sheen and efficiency of an airport departure lounge. Any idiosyncrasies have been firmly ironed out by committee, any dark corners where you might be able to scratch your name for those who follow have been illuminated by an artful downlight. All trace of this game will have been wiped clean by the time you read this.

8th February 2013- Championship, Watford 2 Crystal Palace 2

Almen Abdi put Watford into an early lead with a well-hit effort from just outside the area before Nathaniel Chalobah headed in the Hornets’ second.

Second-half goals from Peter Ramage and Kevin Phillips earned Crystal Palace a 2-2 draw at Watford in the Championship.

Ian Holloway called for the Football League to “close the loophole” that has allowed Gianfranco Zola to loan eight players from Udinese, who are also owned by the Pozzo Family, after watching his side battle back to claim a point in a pulsating game.

These are the games, my friends. Bursting with possibility…for disaster, for triumph, for all of the stuff in between. For finding out what you’re really made of. A clash between two cresting waves, unstoppable and inevitable; no time for caution or reserve, just a head-on collision at full pelt. For a club like ours, you only really get them when promotion is on the horizon: cup or league encounters with higher forces lack the same balance, relegation six-pointers lack the surging ambition. Not a game that was ever going to end goalless and sterile, this.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2013-02-08

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/08-february-2013/

18th August 2012- Championship, Crystal Palace 2 Watford 3

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5017

Gianfranco Zola made a winning start as Watford manager as two late goals sealed victory at Crystal Palace.

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A lively first half saw Palace’s Owen Garvan score either side of Martin Taylor’s goal from close range. The second half was a quieter affair until the dying minutes when Julian Speroni once again helped the Hornets by letting Abdi’s strike squirm past him and then Vydra curled the winner deep into injury time.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-08-18

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-08-17

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/18-august-2012/

15th October 2011-Championship, Watford 0 Crystal Palace 2

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report: with NOTHING coming into the gap between the opposition midfield and defence the strikers are playing perpetually with their backs to goal; the ball goes wide, then back to midfield, then wide, then we lose it.

http://watford.fcdb.info?s=31800&id=4978

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1st February 2011-Championship, Watford 1 Crystal Palace 1

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

Crystal Palace moved out of the Championship drop-zone after a battling draw at Watford. Watford took the lead through Andreas Weimann, on loan from Aston Villa, when he volleyed in Andros Townsend’s ball from the left. Palace equalised when James Vaughan collected the ball from Neil Danns before jinking his way past Adrian Mariappa and firing past Scott Loach.

Evening Standard, 2 Feb 2011

Briefly, as Andros Townsend wriggled through on the left and Andreas Weimann swivelled to score, this promised to be rather fun. But Palace are nothing if not a damp squib: that was as much space and time as they were prepared to afford us, and our attacking efforts were increasingly frustrated by the two holding midfielders wedged in front of the defence like a chair under a door handle. That’s the way to play us, no question. It’s dull as a muddy puddle, but it works.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2011-02-01

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/01-february-2011/

30th March 2010-Championship, Watford 1 Crystal Palace 3

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4909

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Quite the most depressing ninety minutes I can remember watching at Vicarage Road, for all sorts of reasons.

Crystal Palace gave their survival hopes a boost with a win at Watford, who are now hovering a point above Palace in the drop zone.

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