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25th March 2006- Championship, Watford 0 Millwall 2

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The city of Sheffield rendered this result potentially disastrous for Watford and less than satisfactory for Millwall. While the Hornets lost vital promotion ground on a victorious Sheffield United, Millwall failed to make up any on Sheffield Wednesday, comfortable winners over Wolves, in their struggle for survival.

“It makes my back itch.” This is a favourite saying of my mother’s. It describes the feeling you get when something inevitable, and usually unpleasant or unfortunate, is about to happen. It is most often used when watching formulaic sit-coms featuring the likes of Frank Spencer or Mr Bean. It also applies to disaster movies such as “Titanic” or “Towering Inferno”. Quite why her back should itch, I don’t know but I know what she means. In these situations I would rather not watch. When your back itches, you can be sure that inevitable disaster will just be round the corner. The solution? Avoid watching things that have a script featuring inevitable disaster. I suppose that this disaster was inevitable from the moment I was asked to write the match report. I seem to get a lot of such games either for this website or the Free Observer. A home banker on paper, I just got that back-itching feeling (in my legs).

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2006-03-25
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/25-march-2006/

19th September 2004- Championship, Millwall 0 Watford 2

The game was played on Sunday because, unlikely as it seems, Millwall had played in the UEFA Cup on the Thursday before drawing 1-1 with Ferencvaros.

https://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches
Guardian, 20 Sep 2004
https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2004-09-19
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/19-september-2004/

13th September 2003- New Division One, Watford 3 Millwall 1

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BBC Sport

A moment of madness by Millwall’s Kevin Muscat helped Watford on their way to their first League win of the season.  Muscat conceded a penalty, and was sent off, for stamping on Danny Webber in the Millwall area in first-half injury-time

BSAD report: The concern about our start to the season, therefore, was not so much that the results themselves might prove to be disastrous. And it certainly wasn’t that the performances suggested that nine months of thankless struggle were inevitable. There was – is – nothing that can’t be salvaged, apart from the still dreadful events of 9th August.

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Taken from the programme on 12th September 2015- Premier League, Watford 1 Swansea City 0
https://oldwatford.com/2006/03/25/25th-march-2006-championship-watford-0-millwall-2/

13th August 2002- New Division One, Watford 0 Millwall 0

Ray Lewington’s first programme notes.

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4507

Personally, I feel involved again. Apart from anything else, we worked really, really hard last night, and it was nigh on impossible to feel detached when faced with the possibility that all that effort might not be rewarded in some small way. An imperfect performance, perhaps. An almost embarrassingly honest and willing one too, however, and you felt that a Millwall winner and consequent fury from the stands might be too much for a open, slightly vulnerable, increasingly hearts-on-sleeves team to cope with. In short, it mattered quite a lot, more than it has for a while.

15th January 2002- New Division One, Millwall 1 Watford 0

This was the second time in less than a year that referee Rob Styles had sent two Watford players off in a game.

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Evening Standard, 16 Jan 2002

BSAD report: So, Rob Styles might be – well, is – a truly atrocious referee. The contempt with which Graham Taylor spoke of him last season would be enough to convince me, even without witnessing his acts of wanton vandalism first hand. But we were the beneficiaries of his chaotic rule on at least two occasions here – once, when Micah Hyde was given a lecture rather than a booking for a particularly crude challenge from behind; later, when Reid was booked for diving after clearly being felled by Blondeau as he dashed into the box. In truth, while Styles provided a choking smokescreen, we ought to be both encouraged by our resilient performance and somewhat frustrated that it didn’t yield a better result.

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/15-january-2002/