What Was Your Favourite Watford Moment Ever?

There are so many games and moments but for me it has to be when we beat Wrexham at home on a Tuesday night May 1982 to secure promotion to the old First Division. I was underneath the scoreboard with a bunch of mates and we worked our way to the front and were literally pushed onto the pitch when the second goal went in due to everyone behind us. Plod and the stewards got us back behind the line but when the final whistle went the whole place was mental.

I remember players on fans shoulders, singing, crying, laughing - what a night, and all topped off with a swim in the pond. Never to repeated unbridled joy and love for your club, players, mates and town. GT had done it!!!

 

im fairly sure that was either my first or second Watford game , I was 12 and my dad took me. Am only fairly sure as now 50 and going senile

 

One of my favourites was listening to the phone-in on Radio Bristol on leaving Ashton Gate having rampaged to a 4-1 win in August 1998, having pipped them to the Division 3 title the previous season - the 'where's your banner now' game.
Given how we were neck and neck the previous season, we have had a much better time of things than them since then.

 

That summer that spent a few million on a couple of decent players for the division and finished bottom. We just picked up a couple of blokes from relegated Carlisle, the rest was history.

 

the glorious glorious era of Jonno rockets.

 

Loads of memories as a kid when my old man worked with the reserves/youth team.

An odd one but I used to arrive early on a game day my dad would be busy working, so I’d run up and down the pitch scoring goals in each end and celebrating as if I was out there for real, Tom Wally would come and kick me off so I’d find this steward in the east stand that smoked a pipe. Never really listened to him just loved the smell of his pipe. That and a reserve FA cup tie at highbury scored a penalty against DJ at the clock end Luther also played or was on the bench remember him being there must of been coming back from an injury or something.


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Hitching home in the West Midlands from an evening game at Lincoln that we won 5-0. I ended up on some road with little traffic at 11.30 at night and ended up sleeping in a workman's hut.

 

I would say it has to be the 7-1 match. We were 0-4 from the first leg, no one gave us a chance. Southampton were top of the First Division at the time, but rested some of their stars. I remembered being disappointed not seeing Kevin Keegan, who was one of the top players in England at the time.

I remember being disappointed at full time, thinking we'd done so well winning 5-1, but I was convinced we'd gone out on away goals. Then they grouped on the pitch and it was clear extra time would be played. I couldn't believe it. I thought the referee made a mistake..."don't tell him" I was thinking to myself. Then a wise old head next to me explained that the away goal only counts after extra-time. I was delighted to learn that.

So we get another couple of goals in extra-time, and a kid (was actually 4 years older than me) I used to watch at Woodside, alongside Bertie Mee, came on and scored the sixth goal. You may have heard of him.....Nigel Callaghan.

That was a special game, and because I was young at the time, that memory is still vivid.

 

Realising that there's more to life than supporting a load of players who didn't give a cr*p about the fans.

 

Yes an amazing night given we weren’t doing well in the league either.
Still got your commemorative Yellow biro given away next home game?

 

So you don't follow any professional football at all then?!

 

Yes that was an unreal night wasn’t it. Brilliant.

Also the 2-0 win at Old Trafford in the League Cup. I grew up in the South West and we drew Exeter in the next round and all my friends here were disappointed they’d not got Man U lol! We then lost to Forest in the semis.

Again with my South West hat on, beating Argyle (just!) to reach the cup final.

Of course when we look back now, we do so with the benefit of hindsight. People might say about that 1984 memory, or the 2019 semi ‘oh but we didn’t win the final’ but if we are voting for best moment without knowing what came next, the two semi final victories would be very high on the list.

 

Missed that game for a romantic weekend in Paris. Reading that result in the papers next morning both made and ruined my weekend.

 

Yes 2-1 win. As I posted before I was listening on radio 2 and they were interviewing someone at Villa Park when a huge cheer went up In the stadium as they announced the MU watford score. Back then that cup mattered.

 

So many but my favourite is definitely the Porter header at Port Vale in the early nineties.
I had a rolling bet at every game my buddy and I attended that Porter would score a header and I was down hundreds.Thankfully this was the day my double or quits became quits and despite the 2-1 loss boy did we celebrate that night

 

Playoff Final in 1998. Was still naive enough the believe that anything was possible!

 

1999. Happily we didn’t need one in 1998!

 

Yep. That one.

 

So many great moments over the years but for me it's a lot to do with who you're at the game with. Went to the Liverpool home game last season with my daughter Endean. She'd been away in Australia for a year and it was her first game back. Meant so much to be with her there for probably the best League result of my lifetime.

 

A few of my less obvious favourite moments are:

• When Doyley thought he heard a whistle so caught the ball.
• When Malky came back with Cardiff and was on the touchline whinging at the ref, so the Rookery started chanting "Sit down, shut up!". When he did we all cheered, so Malky stood up again, we booed, he went to sit down so the cheers started, but he stopped and came back to more boos. Then he laughed and clapped us. #bantz.
• When Paredes (I think?) threw the ball in Daly Blind's face.
• Everton away for our first match back in the PL, when we went ahead (Layun?).
• That game just before NYE, maybe against Huddersfield?, and there was a band playing in the Lower Rous when we scored in injury time.

 

When Danny Cullip deliberately booted the ball at the linesman

 

Someone shouting "School boy error" at Carl Dikinson who promptly shouted at them to **** off.

 

Was at that one. GT's first time back there I think and a majestic performance. We got stoned (in the biblical rather than student sense) in the pitch dark after the game by mischievous imps from on top of what I suppose must be Sincil bank. Couldn't see the rocks coming, just hear them smashing into parked cars.

 

Vydra's goal at Brighton

 

When we had 2 men sent off vs. Tranmere but won and then used it to springboard us to a completely unexpected promotion.

 

When we won the Evening Standard 5 A Side.

 

After play off final in Cardiff, got my head down in the back of a fellow Orns fiat and pissed myself I was that wasted. Great night.


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Sounds delightful.

 

I loved that night, would have been something like 15 and went properly hoarse from all the shouting. And people say we havent won a proper trophy!!

 

Who was in that legendary team?

Payne, Porter, Hessenthaler, Mooney, Ramage, Miller?

 

Think you’ve gone a year or two over. Suckling in goal, butler played and super trevor putney.

 

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