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14th February 2004- New Division One, Watford 2 Preston North End 0

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Hameur Bouazza scored on his full debut to set up Watford’s victory against Preston at Vicarage Road.

So, Preston then. And as I struggle to remember the game’s various events and talking points, one thing is clear above all. This was a good thing. Not just the performance (although it was surely one of the best of the season, if not the best) but for the number of factors that gave the more optimistic supporter something to smile about.

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Taken from programme on 6th August 2005- Championship, Watford 1 Preston North End 2

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4th March 2003- New Division One, Watford 0 Preston North End 1

Graham Alexander’s penalty earned Preston a win against a Watford side who have now gone five league games without a victory.

Dear Gaffer
Please can I be captain? Please please please please please. I promise not to start any fights, or owt. Please please please please please.
Please,
Dychey.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2003-03-04

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/04-march-2003/

17th September 2002- New Division One, Preston North End 1 Watford 1

The game was open from the off, with both sides committing men forward and finding big spaces to attack when the other’s attacks broke down. Early Watford chances, somewhat inevitably, involved Webber… first a wicked cross from the left that Ardley did well to get a volley to but could only deflect lamely towards Moilanen, then fashioning a gap from an Ardley corner to test the keeper from 25 yards.

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4515

https://oldwatford.com/2003/03/04/4th-march-2003-new-division-one-watford-0-preston-north-end-1/

31st January 2002- New Division One, Preston North End 1 Watford 1

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Daily Telegraph, 1 Feb 2002

Guardian, 1 Feb 2002

Evening Standard, 1 Feb 2002

A Thursday night in Preston! What an attractive prospect! Amazingly, 313 Watford fans braved the distance and the fact that recent form had decreed that this was a banker of a home win.

Not for the first time this season, there was confusion among the five hundred or so Watford faithful when the line-up was announced. It appeared that Gifton would be playing up-front on his own with support from Jermaine Pennant. However it quickly became clear that no-one had communicated this to Gifton as he spent most of the time hovering on the half-way line down the left hand side. It was usually David Noble who was Watford’s furthest player upfield.

Almost forty games has passed and with the exception of forty-five minutes against ten-man Wimbledon, we are still looking as unfamiliar with ourselves as we did at Maine Road.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2002-01-31

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/31-january-2002/

30th September 2001- New Division One, Watford 1 Preston North End 1

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Gianluca Vialli’s Watford extended their winless run to five games as they were held to a draw by Preston at Vicarage Road.

Watford’s stuttering start to the season continued as they were graciously handed a point by David Moyes’ Preston North End in a 1-1 draw at Vicarage Road last night.

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Taken from the programme on 6th August 2005- Championship, Watford 1 Preston North End 2

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18th November 2000- New Division One, Watford 2 Preston North End 3

Watford slumped to their third successive defeat as Preston completed the double over the two leading clubs in the First Division.

Welcome back to the real First Division. The place where life sometimes kicks you in the teeth. And, if life doesn’t do it, the Tranmere midfield will.

“Not quite crisis time yet” (Radio 5). Thank goodness for that, then.

We played some of our best positive football in ages in this game, our attacking moves were sharp, our finishing strong. And yet we were also offering vacant possession of most of the pitch to any enterprising North Ender who happened along and fancied a piece. At first they tended to happen along three or four a minute, since their industriousness put us to shame. And then, when they saw our shapeless generosity, our lack of stomach for a scrap, they all fancied a piece.

http://watford.fcdb.info?s=37934&id=4424

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2000-11-18