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14th January 2023- Championship, Watford 2 Blackpool 0

WFC.Net Goal Commentary: 1  2

Attendance: 19,679

Official site: Watford fans inside The Vic marked the GT Matchday by paying tribute to the club’s greatest ever manager before kick-off, raising their scarves aloft as the teams walked out onto the pitch, while all in attendance honoured the late Gianluca Vialli with a minute’s applause.

BBC Sport: Teenage substitute Tobi Adeyemo helped send Watford up to third in the Championship with his first senior goal in a win against strugglers Blackpool.

Sky Sports: The striker, 17, looked as stunned as he was elated to have found the net in the 72nd minute – just four minutes after replacing Vakoun Bayo for his first taste of league action. 

BHappy: His celebration is magnificent, and mirrors the response in the stands – pure joy to start with, he has the armspan of an albatross.  Then giddy disbelief as he clutches his fingers to his scalp before being mobbed, youth team colleague Jack Grieves first on the scene from his touchline warm-up.  The youngster’s popularity is evident from the reaction of his teammates, who make a bee-line for the mob in the corner.

Fran’s Watford Blog: As if a goal from a 17 year-old making his league debut wasn’t pleasing enough, he scored it in the 72nd minute on the GT matchday.  I am sure that the great man was celebrating with the rest of us. 

14th January 2017-Premier League, Watford 0 Middlesbrough 0

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LIVE: Vicarage Road pays tribute to Graham Taylor as Watford play out uninspiring draw with Middlesbrough

Minute’s applause for Watford legend Graham Taylor

Hornets unable to deliver winning tribute to Taylor

Watford boss thinks side’s performance could have been affected by Graham Taylor tributes during Boro draw

Hornets boss Mazzarri feels side were unlucky not to beat Middlesbrough

Watford v Middlesbrough: How did Hornets rate in goalless draw?

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14th January 2012- Championship, Watford 1 Reading 2

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Substitute Adam Le Fondre scored late on as Reading came from behind to overcome a battling Watford. The comeback ensured Shaun Cummings’ blushes were spared after he turned into his own goal in the 29th minute to put the hosts in front. Jimmy Kebe struck back for Reading just before the break when he headed in Hal Robson-Kanu’s cross from close range.

 When – and if – people talk of how television has revolutionised football, this is probably not what they have in mind. When – and if – it ever comes to a blessed end, the Sky era will chiefly be remembered for wall-to-wall blaring hype, monumental amounts of crassly-spent cash, endless slow motion replays of ball-to-hand incidents accompanied by the phrase “I’ve seen them given”, Andy bloody Gray, and the systematic obliteration of all football before 1993. It won’t be remembered for Watford v Reading on a Saturday teatime in January, episode twenty-five of a low-budget daytime soap opera watched by a dwindling audience. I’ve no idea who was doing the punditry for this one, but full credit to them if they managed to avoid letting out a lengthy sigh at some point.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-01-14
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/14-january-2012/

14th January 2004- FA Cup Third Round Replay, Chelsea 4 Watford 0

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Chelsea brushed aside Watford to book a fourth round tie with Scarborough.

The Watford manager Ray Lewington wished Scarborough good luck in a tone of comic pity, yet his own side took credit for the vim shown despite the unavailability of their injured forward Heidar Helguson. The Icelander was rumbustious in the 2-2 draw at Vicarage Road that had slotted into a sequence of troubled games for Chelsea.

This should be no surprise. After all, it’s what everyone expected to happen, what was tacitly being written into the history books before the game kicked off. The surprise was the draw in the first game, a game we might even have won… and the enormity of that achievement was only underlined by the degree to which we were ultimately outclassed in this replay.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2004-01-14

14th January 1998- FA Cup Third Round Replay, Sheffield Wednesday 0 Watford 0 (After Extra Time, Sheffield Wednesday won 5-3 on penalties)

Daily Mirror, 15 Jan 1998
Daily Telegraph, 15 Jan 1998

BSAD report: Was it worth it? Oh, yeah. Di Canio’s sending off, one of the most senseless and utterly dick-witted acts I’ve seen a footballer commit, was a comedy moment of epic proportions and well worth the journey. That we failed to overcome our recent failings to win the tie seems to matter a little less than it might’ve when we have that memory to take away from Hillsborough.

Arsenal won 4-3 on penalties

14th January 1984-Division One, Coventry City 1 Watford 2

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Taken from programme on the 4th February 1984-Division One, Watford 3 West Bromwich Albion 1

Taken from the programme on 2nd February 2014- Championship, Watford 2 Brighton & Hove Albion 0

https://oldwatford.com/2005/03/05/5th-march-2005-championship-watford-2-coventry-city-3/
Taken from the programme on 28th December 1999- Premier League, Watford 3 Southampton 2

The day a Watford goalkeeper went to Coventry and scored