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8th March 2025- Championship, Watford 1 Millwall 2

WFC.Net goal commentary: 1

Report: Watford 1-2 Millwall – Watford FC Download

BBC: Josh Coburn was again Millwall’s match-winner, as they came from behind to beat Watford at Vicarage Road and boost their hopes of a Championship play-off place.

Sky: The Lions trailed at half-time after Mattie Pollock had given the home side a 30th-minute lead with his first league goal of the season.

Watford Observer: RECAP: Watford 1 Millwall 2

Watford 1 Millwall 2 minute-by-minute report

Second half was a big learning curve admits Cleverley

Consistency of recent weeks shattered by two contrasting halves in one game

BHappy: We weren’t on it at all from the start of the second half. Not… overrun, not obviously complacent. But not on it. Critical perhaps was the departure of Doumbia with what looked like a hamstring strain; on came Bayo for his familiar skittling around, his 100th appearance… but it was evident after far fewer than 100 games that holding the ball up was never his thing. Millwall now had a much easier proposition on their hands being able to push up on us high up the pitch without us having as effective an out-ball.

Fran’s Watford Blog: Prior to kick-off there was a minute’s applause for Dennis Bond and Barry Hartle who passed away recently. This was impeccably observed, and it was lovely to see the Millwall fans joining in. They are likeable after all.

From the Rookery End: It was a cliche, as Watford v Millwall was a game of two halves. First half was great, the second was simply awful. Jon, Jason, Jordi and Mike met to discuss it , outside the hornet shop.

8th March 2005- Championship, Watford 0 Nottingham Forest 2

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/

8th March 1997- New Division Two, Gillingham 3 Watford 1

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

Sunday Mirror, 9 Mar 1997

BSAD: On Saturday, it was painfully obvious what we’re missing. Contrast the roles of Gary Penrice and Andy Hessenthaler in the match – the former was completely invisible and made no impact on the course of the game; the latter ran the show in the second half, orchestrating the home side’s attacks and lending a helping hand all over the field. He won the midfield, basically, and dictated the game (we talk about his tackling usually but his distribution was first class). We don’t have anyone who can do that and we end up playing too many matches at the opposition’s pace as a result.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1997-03-08

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-2/08-march-1997/

8th March 1987- Division One, Watford 2 Everton 1

Finally another top flight win over the Toffees. We had, of course, beaten Everton 2-0 in our very first game in Division One in August 1982. Since then we’d faced them 9 times losing 8 and drawing once. So this win, in front of the Match Of The Day Live cameras, was particularly satisfying.

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Daily Mirror, 9th March 1987

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Guardian, 9 Mar 1987

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8th March 1980-FA Cup Sixth Round, Watford 1 Arsenal 2

https://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

Watford Observer match report

Lancashire Telegraph, 8 Mar 1980

The Observer, 9 mar 1980

Sunday Telegraph, 9 Mar 1980

Sunday Mirror, 9 Mar 1980

Sunday People, 9 Mar 1980

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8th March 1975- Division Three, Gillingham 2 Watford 1

https://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

Sunday People, 9 Mar 1975

Sunday Mirror, 9 Mar 1975

Watford Observer match report

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1975-03-08

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-three/08-march-1975/