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14th December 2013- Championship, Watford 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1

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

BBC: Sheffield Wednesday earned their first away victory of the season as Connor Wickham grabbed the only goal in their game at Watford. Wickham scored with a 20-yard free-kick for his fifth goal for the Owls since joining on loan from Sunderland.

Sunday Telegraph, 15 Dec 2013

BHappy: You really have to wonder how we got here. Even those who didn’t expect this season to be a cakewalk, who anticipated difficult games at home as attitudes towards us changed and we had to adapt to new circumstances and a different squad, can’t have anticipated this. It stands to reason, of course, that last season’s flamboyant style was never something that was going to succeed in moderation; we’re not equipped to grind out results when the going is rough, less so given the summer departures. The viability of playing open, confident football is kinda dependent on the “confident” bit. Otherwise you’re just “open”, with the inevitable consequence that you’re rather easy to score against without the verve to overturn a side with something to cling on to. Nonetheless the chasm between the performances that yielded so many goals last season, goals that didn’t entirely desert us as we were finding our feet again early this, and performances that have yielded no goals in the last four at Vicarage Road is vast and would have been all but inconceivable even in the wake of the Wembley disappointment six months ago, a result that arguably did neither manager any favours at all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/25275110

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/