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20th January 2024- Championship, Bristol City 1 Watford 1

Bristol City no longer produce a match day programme.

https://www.skysports.com/football/bristol-city-vs-watford/report/485027

WFC.Net Jon Marks Goal Commentary: 1

Sky: The visitors grabbed a 13th-minute lead when referee Andrew Kitchen spotted a handball by centre-back Rob Dickie after a free-kick had been played into City’s box and Tom Dele-Bashiru fired a right-footed penalty beyond Max O’Leary’s despairing dive.

BBC: Scott Twine marked his Bristol City debut with a goal as they shared the points with Watford at Ashton Gate. Midfielder Twine, signed on loan from Burnley earlier in the week, headed in the equaliser to cancel out Tom Dele-Bashiru’s penalty.

Watford Observer: RECAP: Bristol City 1 Watford 1

Until they stop gifting goals, who Watford sign this month is academic

A good away point but lack of maturity cost Watford chance of more

Fran’s Watford Blog: A draw was a fair result based on the balance of play, it had been a very even game.  The fans that I spoke to on the way out were all quite happy with an away point.  It was certainly a much better showing than against the same opposition on Boxing Day.  I would say that nobody played brilliantly, but nobody played badly.  City defended resolutely which meant that the Hornets were restricted to hopeful efforts from distance that usually had a body in the way.  But, after some horror shows on the road, we have now gone six away games unbeaten with the result that the numbers travelling to support the lads are increasing, there were 2621 at Ashton Gate, and the mood among the travelling fans is positive.  Long may that last.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/championship/table

20th January 2018- Premier League, Leicester City 2 Watford 0

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Relive Leicester City v Watford: Goals from Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez give Foxes a 2-0 win

Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez goals condemn Watford to Leicester City defeat

Marco Silva says Watford’s goal is Premier League survival after eighth defeat in 11

Marco Silva defends his tenure as Watford slip to eighth league defeat from 11

Leicester City vs Watford ratings: Molla Wague off the pace in Premier League defeat

skyA Jamie Vardy penalty and a late Riyad Mahrez strike were enough to earn Leicester City a 2-0 win over Watford.

BBC SportWatford have now won just one of their last 11 Premier League matches, while Leicester improve to two wins from seven in the league and move up to seventh place in the table.

guardianMarco Silva dismissed any fears over his job after watching his injury-hit Watford lose at Leicester.

Watford announced Marco Silva’s sacking as Head Coach early on Sunday morning which was then featured by the following blogs along with reports from the Leicester game.

BHappy imageOK, so there was supposed to be a Leicester report. Sorry about that. Birthday drinks on Saturday night delayed that exercise and by the time I got round to sitting down events had moved on apace and an account of events at the KP Stadium had become almost superfluous, like a restaurant review of a curry shop that shut down a week ago.

FranIn line with other Premier League clubs, there was a minute’s applause for the wonderful Cyrille Regis, who passed away earlier this week.  Those of us of a certain age were deeply saddened at his early death.  He was a wonderful player to watch and one who was a trailblazer for the young players of colour that have followed him.

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20th January 2002- New Division One, Watford 1 Manchester City 2

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Kevin Keegan’s promotion bandwagon was given a slice of good fortune as Watford gifted Manchester City all three points on Sunday.

As early as the quarter hour mark we were forced into a reshuffle as Cox limped off having earlier received treatment. Doyley dropped into his more accustomed central role, with Heidar continuing his tour of the outfield positions as a right wing-back.

At this point, anyway, Luca brought Helguson on, and I assume we went to four in defence, with Glass dropping back and Helguson, inexplicably, playing wide right. Hindsight is a beautiful thing, and there’s no denying Pennant’s usefulness up front, but isn’t he supposed to be a right winger and Helguson a striker?

A difficult pitch and a difficult opponent, full of tricks and movement, but we played as well as we could, which is all you can ask for. Although City were better than us, technically, our battling performance could have earned a draw. Helguson’s unfortunate own goal gave City a win they barely deserved: that’s what happens when you ask strikers to play a defensive role.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2002-01-20
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/20-january-2002/

20th January 2001- New Division One, Watford 1 Fulham 3

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GT on passing the landmark of 1000 games as a manager.

BSAD imageThink back to the start of the season, when we could look at our forthcoming opponents without fear, when even our fellow Premiership casualties didn’t appear to offer a serious challenge. Our squad was as strong as any in the division, more complete and more experienced than the one that had been promoted. All we needed were performances to match.  On Saturday morning, those thoughts were finally laid to rest. Fulham are better than us, better than everyone else. Of course, the league table already provides a fairly clear indication of that…but it’s beyond doubt now.

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