
Tag Archives: Playoffs
11th May 2008- Championship Playoff Semi-Final First Leg, Watford 0 Hull City 2
I haven’t done the research but I think we must have set a record of being the only club to ever achieve our lowest league attendance of the season in the first leg of a playoff game. We had attracted over 15,000 to every other league game in 07/08 but our terrible form of just one win in 14 games which saw us scrape into the playoffs meant only 14,713 turned up. In comparison 18,535 attended the first leg against Birmingham in 1999, the third highest home crowd of the 98/99 season.













































21st May 2006- Championship Playoff Final, Leeds United 0 Watford 3















































“From New York to Cardiff”
“Winning is believing”
“Disconnected”
“Trouble!”
“From Blooms Bar, Tel Aviv”
“View from afar”
“Childhood memories”
“Bermuda black-out”
“Bloody hell”
“We always win three-nil”
“Good omen, bad omen”
“The red car”
“Three-nil on an L-shaped pitch”
“On seeing a miracle in Brussels”
“An early taste of champagne and glory”
“Magic carpet”
“The Horn treatment”
“Safe again”
“Hahnemann was there”
“Hat korso es két palinka”
“Confessions of a recent convert”
“What it’s really all about”
“Oh baby!”
“Hell freezing over”
“Parallel universes”
“The long road to Cardiff”
“Fireworks”
“Very superstitious”
“Waving the flag”
“Dear Diary”
“Hornets on top down under”












































9th May 2006- Championship Playoff Semi-Final Second Leg, Watford 0 Crystal Palace 0 (Watford win 3-0 on aggregate)











































Watford will meet Leeds in the Championship play-off final after cruising past a lacklustre Palace.
BSAD reports: There is an air of something approaching hysteria inside Vicarage Road.
Immense. Amazing. Rock solid. Tense. Iron-willed. Undefeated. Just some of the words we used, once we’d calmed down, to describe the fight on the touchline which was triggered by maybe a little too much management of the game and, in particular, the ball. But if we focus on that, we’ll be overlooking a job done with just as many of the qualities as we brought to the 60th-minute melee.






6th May 2006- Championship Playoff Semi-Final First Leg, Crystal Palace 0 Watford 3



























31st May 1999- New Division One Playoff Final, Bolton Wanderers 0 Watford 2
































We’ve only gone and bloody done it! We’ve only gone and bloody done it!
“Unforgettable”
“Wembley glory”
“Can life get any better?”
“Images”
“It’s a long way to…LA”
“The Horns of a dilemma?”
“If you want to get to heaven let me tell you how…”
“Something else”
“Fifteen years”
“The best day of my life”
“Tears at tea-time”
“Here’s to the next time”
“It’s a long way from…NG7”
“Nice and ‘isi”
“Emotion”
“Wembley’s Way”
“A magnificent obsession”
“A good day out”
“Why a grown man would cry”
“Winning at Wembley is better than losing on IRC”
“The Hornets have landed”
“Twenty years”
“Wem-ber-lee”
“The scoreboard said…”
Wembley photo gallery
Victory parade photo gallery

























Twenty Years Ago: Richard Johnson
Twenty Years Ago: Michel Ngonge
Twenty Years Ago: Micah Hyde
Twenty Years Ago: Ciaran Cosgrave
Twenty Years Ago: Tommy Mooney
Twenty Years Ago: Robert Page
Twenty Years Ago: Nick Wright
Play-Off Final 1999: Player & Staff Memories Of Graham Taylor
Time Capsules: Graham Taylor’s Miracle (1999)
Wright & Smart Narrate 1999 Play-Off Final
In pictures: Graham Taylor and Watford FC’s 1999 play-off final success








