8th March 2005- Championship, Watford 0 Nottingham Forest 2 Leave a Reply Kris Commons scored twice against Watford to earn Nottingham Forest three key points in their relegation battle. The physical presence of Forest’s defence made life difficult for Watford, though, and the closest Ray Lewington’s team came to hitting the target was when Johnnie Jackson steered his header wide from an awkward angle. “Stumble-john”, or “blunderer”, sums up the Watford performance fairly well, granting naive Nottingham Forest fans blind optimism in the hope that they may well avoid relegation after all. https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2005-03-08 https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/08-march-2005/ Share this:TwitterFacebook
11th April 1998- New Division Two, Watford 1 Wrexham 0 Leave a Reply The infamous GT ‘Deirdre Rachid’ programme notes. My thunder has been stolen. Over three years, I have tried my very hardest to come up with bizarre and unexpected approaches to writing about twenty-two men and a lump of inflated cow. It hasn’t been easy but I’m deeply proud of some of my more adventurous detours from the point in hand (Exhibit A: “The Accordian Player”). I have, however, been kidding myself. It has recently become clear that, when it comes to stretching metaphors to absurd lengths and littering otherwise lucid comment with utterly irrelevant drivel, I am just a humble apprentice. Graham Taylor is the master. (Exhibit B: “Deirdre Rachid”.) Lord help us if he ever decides to write his autobiography…. But such piss-taking shouldn’t hide the truth – Graham Taylor, increasingly wayward programme notes and all, has guided Watford Football Club to success yet again. We have so much to thank him for. This long, long season is set for a joyful finale. To be honest, as someone who didn’t even predict us to make the playoffs, I could be more bothered about the Championship. Barring absolute catastrophe, we’ve achieved our aims. As “Clap Your Hands” have eloquently put it, “The title would be the cherry on the cake…but we want the cake first.” English Division TwoTable »Brentford0-2FulhamBurnley1-0Bristol CityCarlisle United3-1Oldham AthleticChesterfield2-1Northampton TownGillingham2-1Luton TownPlymouth Argyle3-1BlackpoolPreston North End1-0Southend UnitedWalsall2-0MillwallWatford1-0WrexhamYork City0-1Bournemouth http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4303 Share this:TwitterFacebook