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4th March 2023- Championship, Watford 0 Preston North End 0

Slaven Bilic’s final game as Head Coach.

Attendance: 19,244

BBC Sport: The Hornets’ best chance came mid-way through the second half as Ismaila Sarr volleyed just wide from a Ken Sema cross.

Sky Sports: The contest had all the excitement of a pre-season friendly for much of the afternoon, with Preston keeper Freddie Woodman producing the only two saves of note during 90 forgettable minutes.

BHappy: After the break as the half time introductions of Davis and Asprilla offer us at least the suggestion of potency, the visitors resort to base thuggery. Bambo Diaby is a centre back in the Dan Shittu mould… outstanding at anything asking questions of his physical attributes, he does as good a job of standing up to Keinan Davis as anyone has this season. Anything that requires defensive nous or, you know, a football however and he’s less effective – he gives the ball away clumsily in midfield on two occasions as the chinks in North End’s considerable armour begin to show, and manages to avoid censure for sacking Ryan Porteous at a corner.

Fran’s Watford blog: I was in Watford bright and early on Saturday to attend the Match of the Century at the West Herts, which was celebrating 100 years at Vicarage Road for the Hornets and 100 years of local sport at the West Herts. The two teams were the West Herts football team and a team made up of Watford fans who had bid to be part of the Watford Centurion team. West Herts wore the yellow, red and green shirts that the club wore in 1901. The Centurions wore the current third kit that was worn by the club when Vicarage Road opened. It was a competitive game that West Herts won 3-0, despite a decent performance from Matthew Archer in the Centurions’ goal and a lively cameo from young Alastair Grass. The defeat for the Centurions was hardly surprising, given that they had only met that morning, but it could not be blamed on Tommy Mooney, their manager, who was taking his role very seriously so could not be approached to sign copies of the Watford Treasury until after the game.

4th March 2017-Premier League, Watford 3 Southampton 4

clips of Jon Marks BBC 3CR commentary
Goal 1 Goal 2 Goal 3

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Relive Watford v Southampton: Manic final 10 minutes gives Saints victory

Watford score three but can have few complaints about defeat

Mazzarri: Players did not sacrifice enough in Saints defeat

Southampton bounced back from their EFL Cup final heartbreak to beat Watford in an entertaining encounter at Vicarage Road.

Nathan Redmond scored twice as Southampton squeezed past Watford 4-3 in an entertaining encounter at Vicarage Road on Saturday.

Southampton’s manager, Claude Puel, joked it would take four defenders to stop Manolo Gabbiadini from scoring as the Italian continued his hot streak.

Manolo Gabbiadini continued his thunderous introduction to English football, scoring his sixth goal in four games, to help Claude Puel’s side put their EFL Cup Final defeat behind them. Southampton again looked rocky in defence but were exceptional going forward and caused Walter Mazzarri’s sluggish side all sorts of problems as they climbed back into the top half of the Premier League.

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4th March 2008- Championship, Watford 1 Norwich City 1

Norwich striker Jamie Cureton came off the bench to score a superb late equaliser away at Watford.

The first twenty minutes was terrific, but we’ve nobody but ourselves to blame if we don’t take advantage of such spells. It’s no coincidence that we’ve not tonked anyone for a while.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2008-03-04

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/04-march-2008/

4th March 2006-Championship, Watford 2 Derby County 2

Substitute Al Bangura grabbed a late goal to rescue a point for Watford.

Kevin Lisbie gave Derby the lead against the run of play when he raced onto Adam Bolder’s pass and trickled a low shot into the far corner.

Marlon King fired the Hornets level with a smart finish from 18 yards and later hit the post as the home side poured forward.

But Giles Barnes slid in to put the Rams ahead before Bangura made it 2-2 with a fine shot deep in injury-time.

Boothroyd’s boldness reprieves wilting Watford

5 BSAD match reports

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4th March 2003- New Division One, Watford 0 Preston North End 1

Graham Alexander’s penalty earned Preston a win against a Watford side who have now gone five league games without a victory.

Dear Gaffer
Please can I be captain? Please please please please please. I promise not to start any fights, or owt. Please please please please please.
Please,
Dychey.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2003-03-04

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/04-march-2003/

4th March 2000- Premier League, Watford 1 West Ham United 2

For once, Watford fans had more than blind faith to cling to as kickoff approached. Not only the encouragement of two vastly improved performances, especially that mighty effort at Chelsea, but also the knowledge that we’d be able to field an unchanged side. This was it, this was our first win of the new year. No doubts.

Playing crap I can tolerate – it happens, whatever the division you are in. But showing such an APPARENT LACK OF EFFORT? The “half-arsed” element to our play in that first half still rankles, 48 hours on.

I saw us lose 4-0 at Spurs this season but there we were undone by the magician Ginola. In the first half against West Ham we showed a complete lack of the application and spirit that GT instilled over twenty years ago, and that simply cannot be tolerated.