17th September 2005- Championship, Watford 2 Sheffield United 3 Leave a Reply Leaders Sheffield United came from two goals down to beat 10-man Watford courtesy of a late own-goal off the knee of defender Clarke Carlisle. Damn right, then, that this left a very bitter taste in the mouth. There’s never anything pleasant about losing a two goal lead; hell, there’s rarely anything too lovely about losing, full stop. But you can live with it, generally. This would’ve been a very different report if we’d just skipped the sixty-seventh minute and got on with it, succumbing to a rather flattering comeback that cancelled out our own rather flattering lead. Neil Warnock’s sides have a certain reputation for unreconstructed physical force, for a distinctive, shall we say, WayneAllisonness; that’s all part of the game that we love. You’d take that on the chin, without complaint. Given the chance. The thing about lessons is you don’t dwell on them. You take what you need and move on. On that basis, this report should be about four sentences long, of which this is already the third, which just leaves the following: if this game isn’t a turning point in our season, then Betty “Adrian” Boothroyd truly will have made a difference to this club, been proven a “different” kind of manager, and be most worthy of a more expensive, better-fitting suit on matchdays in future. http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4672 Share this:TwitterFacebook
9th August 2004- Championship, Watford 3 Queens Park Rangers 0 Leave a Reply http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4609 Ah, this is the stuff. It’s a local derby lite, ninety percent of the passion and drama and pantomime villainy…and no unhealthy additives. And it’s bleedin’ marvellous. Share this:TwitterFacebook
1st November 2003- New Division One, Watford 1 Rotherham United 0 Leave a Reply Danny Webber claimed his fourth goal of the campaign as his solitary strike earned Watford the victory over Rotherham, despite the heroics of the visitors’ stand-in goalkeeper Gary Montgomery. You’d rather hope that our ambitions might stretch a little further than that, of course. Being a bit better than Bradford isn’t exactly a towering achievement, after all. But it’ll do for now, I guess. For all that the season started with fairly high expectations, not being in the bottom three seems like a useful point from which to begin again. It could be worse. And it might get better. http://watford.fcdb.info?s=35051&id=4575 Share this:TwitterFacebook