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28th February 2009- Championship, Watford 2 Crystal Palace 0

New Watford signing Don Cowie scored one and set up the other as the Hornets clinched a third successive league win.

Three games now against teams that are “down there”.  Continue this good run and lingering relegation concerns could be behind us in ten days’ time.

Mirror, 2 Mar 2009

More games from 28th February at https://oldwatford.com/tag/feb28

28th February 2004- New Division One, Watford 4 Wimbledon 0

This would be the last time we played this incarnation of Wimbledon and by then they were very much Wimbledon in name only.   They were already playing home games at the National Hockey Stadium in Milton Keynes and at the end of the season the Football League allowed Pete Winkleman to change the name of the side he’d taken over to the MK Dons.

The fans of the real club had already established AFC Wimbledon in the summer of 2002 and at the time of this game were top of the Combined Counties League which they would win starting a run of 5 promotions taking them back to the Football League in 2011.

For more about the whole sorry business of how two members of a three person independent panel, commissioned by the FA, allowed franchising to happen see the Wikipedia article, ‘Relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes‘.

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BBC SportWatford pulled further away from the drop zone while Wimbledon were sent closer to the relegation trapdoor.

BSAD imageBSAD report: The easiest three points of the season, gained with a performance that ambled around for long periods to general disinterest before casually stuffing another goal past an utterly shambolic Franchise defence.

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28th February 1998-Division Two, Watford 3 Bristol Rovers 2

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches
Sunday People, 1 Mar 1998
Sunday Mirror, 1 Mar 1998

BSAD report: For the first time in too long, Watford looked like promotion material. Not perfect, not without problems, but infinitely more confident and ambitious. That has less to do with the enforced changes (although I do like Steve Palmer in midfield), than with the return to form of key players – Ronny Rosenthal, Gifton Noel-Williams, Richard Johnson.

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https://oldwatford.com/2003/11/01/1st-november-2003-new-division-one-watford-1-rotherham-united-0/
14th August 2004- Championship, Watford 0 Burnley 1