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13th December 2008- Championship, Watford 2 Coventry City 1

John-Joe O’Toole’s winner after 72 minutes gave new Watford boss Brendon Rodgers a second successive victory

The rain. I’m not complaining; we played the conditions much more effectively than Cov and it was a remarkably positive showing from both sides in the circumstances. But… it didn’t seem likely that the game would finish, as late as the end of the first half. Bonus marks to Chris Coleman for stopping short of Walker (R)’s plausible enough prediction in his post-match comments.

More games from 13th December at https://oldwatford.com/tag/dec13

29th November 2008- Championship, Watford 1 Doncaster Rovers 1

Brendan Rodgers first programme notes.

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Striker Steve Brooker came off the bench to score an equaliser with his first touch in a Doncaster shirt to earn his side a point against Watford.

BHappy report: I want to get my counterbalance out of the way quickly. First game of a new regime, unreasonable to expect to see the finished article. Every educated account cites Rodgers as a great coach, but the best coach in the world isn’t going to get it all dancing to his tune in between press conferences in the space of three days…

…but I think we have a right to expect better than that. After a week in which we’ve pulled in four points and two decent performances from two awkward looking games under Mackay’s caretakership, what’s the sense behind making SEVEN (count them) personnel or positional changes to your starting eleven, only one of which (Ward) enforced? Having a clear idea of how you want your team to play is one thing. Turning it all upside down within the space of three days such that the good bits – and there were clearly good bits – of the side inherited were chucked out with the bathwater smacks of blind arrogance.

More games from 29th November at https://oldwatford.com/tag/nov29

22nd November 2008-Championship, Watford 3 Queens Park Rangers 0

Note: The video is incorrectly labelled. It’s actually the 2008-09 review.

report: how’s that for a bit of perspective. For all that watching our team in recent weeks has been a bit like building a house of cards on a draughty window sill, we’ve never looked as utterly lamentable as QPR did this afternoon.

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20th September 2008-Championship, Watford 2 Reading 2

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report: Let’s get the obvious out of the way first. What a completely mental decision.

Guardian report:Phantom goal will haunt rookie referee

Telegraph article: When Watford were left haunted by a ‘ghost goal’ given by Stuart Attwell against Reading

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11th May 2008- Championship Playoff Semi-Final First Leg, Watford 0 Hull City 2

I haven’t done any research but I imagine we must have set a record of being the only club to ever achieve our lowest league attendance of the season at the first leg of a playoff. Just 14,713 turned up.

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Goals from veteran pair Nicky Barmby and Dean Windass put Hull within sight of the Championship play-off final. Watford had a goal harshly disallowed in the fourth minute and fell behind shortly after when Fraizer Campbell set up Barmby to sidefoot home.

To make matters worse for Adrian Boothroyd’s men, skipper John Eustace was given a straight red card after a second-half scuffle.

Yes, okay, so we lost. And we can’t defend. And, well, Dean Windass. But that was rather fun wasn’t it?

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13th May 2007- Premier League, Watford 1 Newcastle United 1

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Watford said farewell to the Premiership by drawing with Newcastle in a match marred by an injury to England striker Michael Owen.

The final one-word match report of the season is:

Cheerio.

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21st April 2007- Premier League, Watford 1 Manchester City 1

Watford became the first team to be relegated from the Premiership this season after drawing with Manchester City at Vicarage Road.

Watford manager Aidy Boothroyd admitted his team ‘did not have enough’ after today’s 1-1 draw with Manchester City meant they were relegated to the Championship.

Your one-word match report is:fitting.

21st February 2007- Premier League, Watford 1 Wigan Athletic 1

An extremely unusual event preceded Watford’s Premiership match with Wigan on Wednesday. Minutes before kick-off injured Watford striker Marlon King wandered on to the Vicarage Road pitch and, microphone in hand, made an impassioned appeal to the club’s supporters.

Your one-word match report is: insufficient.

30th December 2006- Premier League, Watford 1 Wigan Athletic 1- Match abandoned after 55 minutes due to a waterlogged pitch

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28th October 2006- Premier League, Watford 0 Tottenham Hotspur 0

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