This ought to hurt. When you turn away and distract yourself with other things, it ought to be staring you straight in the face whenever you look back. It ought to make you want to punch the wall and throw things and find some really destructive gardening to do. If I take solace in anything – and I’m struggling – then it’s in the reaction of Jonathan Hogg, whose post-match lap of honour was so reluctant and desultory that it barely took him beyond the centre circle and never, not for a moment, involved looking at anything other than his own feet. Lap of honour? Bollocks to that.
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4th May 2008- Championship, Blackpool 1 Watford 1
4th May 2003- New Division One, Watford 2 Sheffield United 0
4th May 1991- Division Two, Oxford United 0 Watford 1
This victory ensured we avoided relegation, something which had looked unlikely from the beginning of September when we slipped into the bottom three. Other than for a brief period over Christmas we remained there until 27th April.
So onto Oxford and three thousand five hundred fans piled down the M40 for a date with destiny.