2nd February 2010- Championship, Watford 3 Sheffield United 0 Leave a Reply http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches Daily Telegraph, 3 Feb 2010 Poor defending contributed to the Blades’ defeat as Tom Cleverley took advantage of sloppy play to open the scoring before half-time. Heidar Helguson capitalised on more slack defending from the visitors to score the second before Don Cowie completed the scoring from a free-kick. How very badly did we need to play against a side as accommodating as the Blades. For twenty minutes we looked quite tentative, and then… it wasn’t merely a matter of noting that our opponents weren’t as good as their position suggested. More that a United side comprised of a pick-and-mix of second tier journeymen (many of them ours…) scrawled this in large, difficult to miss paint-spray all over their penalty area every time a ball went anywhere near it. Nonetheless, it took an unchallenged flap from Mark Bunn and a couple of unexploited free headers before we realised that this was there for the taking, and took it increasingly confidently. Share this:TwitterFacebook
21st February 2007- Premier League, Watford 1 Wigan Athletic 1 Leave a Reply 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. Share this:TwitterFacebook
15th October 2005- Championship, Watford 1 Leicester City 2 Leave a Reply Leicester claimed their first away victory of the season at Watford. Don’t let me paint this as a crisis. It isn’t, and it doesn’t need to be. But it shouldn’t be taken lightly either, just because the start to the campaign was so exuberant and so refreshing. For the second time, we dropped points at home in a tight game, leaving a striker on the bench with a substitution to spare. http://watford.fcdb.info?s=31800&id=4677 Share this:TwitterFacebook
20th August 2005- Championship, Watford 3 Burnley 1 Leave a Reply http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4666 Matthew Spring scored on his debut as in-form Watford secured victory against patched-up Burnley at Vicarage Road. BBC-SPORT-_-Football-_-Championship-_-Watford-3-1-BurnleyDownload BSAD report: At long last, we’re seeing the results of spending some proper money on the squad: some of Adrian Boothroyd’s early work might’ve been for die-hard fans only, but recent additions have been unquestionably tremendous. There remains much work to be done on the training ground, of course…but the last two-and-a-half games have offered more than mere promise for the future, and we’re likely to be spared a repeat of the Vialli fiasco, waiting for months for cold water to “gel”. That’s not to say that we yet have enough strength in depth; it is, however, to applaud the manager for delivering the quality that he promised throughout the summer clear-out. Another BSAD report: From the moment Malky Mackay and Ade Akinbiyi emerged side by side from the players’ tunnel at 2.56pm and, incredibly, Akinbiyi delivered a two-handed bar-room push to Malky’s chest like Mackay had just been chatting up Ade’s girlfriend, you absolutely knew, no question, that this was Family Day. Certainly it reminded me of parts of my family, and I’d be surprised if we’re all that different from most of you out there. Share this:TwitterFacebook
10th August 2002-New Division One, Leicester City 2 Watford 0 Leave a Reply This was the first competitive game played at Leicester’s new Walker Stadium (now known as the King Power Stadium). Brian Deane grabbed two goals as Leicester got off to a winning start at the Walkers Stadium against Watford. A 31,000 crowd raised the roof of the Foxes’ new home as last season’s Premiership basement club put their relegation woes behind them with a solid display BBC-SPORT-_-Football-_-Eng-Div-1-_-Leicester-2-0-WatfordDownload Ah, the rituals of opening day; second-gearing on the motorway alongside caravans and cars with scarves hanging out of the windows, hope springing anew in every step of every fan wending their way to every ground. Neither ITV Digital nor a daily diet of summer scare stories can take that away. The contrast with last season is striking, already. Whatever else went wrong yesterday, we were far more comfortable with the high tempo set by Leicester, and far less afraid of being seen to sweat and toil. We pressed hard, retrieving possession more quickly than before and occasionally forcing errors from a slightly sloppy Foxes defence. Notably, and despite a great deal of complaint about the lack of aerial threat from a lightweight attack, an eager midfield pounced on rebounds and clearances rather than allowing them to escape, thus enabling us to press forward without always retaining possession particularly well. It didn’t amount to much, perhaps. That doesn’t mean that it can’t amount to much, however. All the Horns fans, some three thousand of them in a crowd of over 31,000 (ground capacity I’m told is 32,500) were in the north-east corner of the ground, with vociferous Leicester fans on either side – and Leicester fans occupied the areas behind both goals. Horns fans, not noted for their ability to make noise since our days in the Premiership, certainly out-sang our opponents until the goals arrived, but it’s hard creating an atmosphere from one corner of a stadium. http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4506 28th December 2002- New Division One, Watford 1 Leicester City 2 https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2002-08-10 https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2002-08-11 https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/11-august-2002/ Share this:TwitterFacebook