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The weather caused lots of postponements at the beginning of the year. This game was originally scheduled for 4th January, then the 14th and eventually played a week later. Even then it didn’t kick off until 8.30pm due to a floodlight failure.
More games from 21st January at https://oldwatford.com/tag/jan21
Watford Observer, 9th August 1996
Steve Perryman’s last programme notes.
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.
BSAD report: That the team playing in yellow and black wasn’t Watford took a bit of getting used to, for me and the linesman alike it seemed, for there were a number of questionable offside decisions, and non-decisions, early in the game.
BSAD report: After umpteen years of spectating in the Vic Road end, a brief holiday in the Main Stand, courtesy of a loaned season ticket. For a start, rather like watching your favourite film in widescreen, it comes as something of a disorientating shock to be seeing a home game from the side. Hearing the fans roar in anticipation as a pass rolls harmlessly ten yards in front of Gifton Noel-Williams at the Rookery end is just one reminder of how perspective distorts a football match.
