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29th April 2000- Premier League, Watford 2 Manchester United 3

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Just the reserves, of course. No Cole, Scholes, Beckham, Keane or Stam, and Yorke sunning himself on the bench until half-time. Nothing to play for, the Championship and relegation issues resolved last week. A stroll in the April sunshine. Except that this is Manchester United, and you’re playing a brandname as much as a football team. A victory means something, regardless of who happens to be representing the multinational plc this week. They’ve made it that way, not us…but it’s still brilliant, still a reminder of what English football will lose when the Champions League makes games like this a thing of the past.

This – for those of you not there, you poor wanderers – was a heart-stopping game, not as visceral and energising as last week’s pulsating kickaround, but liberating in a different way. It was helped no end by the remarkable even-handedness of the referee, something which shouldn’t elicit comment but these days does, and which riled champions who arrogantly, complacently expect special treatment by right. So at least we were in with a shout, playing eleven against eleven. Just like at Anfield all those months ago, we could only beat the guys they put in front of us. Or so we thought for half a blissful hour.

16th October 1999- Premier League, Manchester United 4 Watford 1

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United scored four goals in 11 minutes either side of half time, as Watford’s brave challenge was dismissed by a ruthless home side.

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3 BSAD reports including ‘There is nothing here that we’d want to take home with us, nothing to be jealous of. No grace, no elegance, no humility, no self-deprecation, no humour, no courtesy, no community, merely bloody insufferable arrogance and grotesque self-importance. The playground taunts of glory-hunters and soulless success junkies will forever echo around this wretched stadium, it will never be cleansed of the stench of winning at any price. It is one of the most horrible places I have ever visited’.

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22nd August 1987- Division One, Manchester United 2 Watford 0

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Sunday Mirror, 23 Aug 1987
People, 23 Aug 1987
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16th September 1986-Division One, Watford 1 Manchester United 0

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18th September 2016-Premier League, Watford 3 Manchester United 1