Knockaert goes on the outside of Matthew Briggs, he's evaded him and he's inside the box, he goes down... and the referee gives a penalty! Leicester City have a penalty! In added time at the end of stoppage time! Cassetti held of Knockaert and Leicester will have their chance to book their place at Wembley. Anthony Knockaert has the chance to send Leicester City to Wembley. ALMUNIA SAVES IT! AND AGAIN! Cassetti clears! Unbelievable, unbelievable, Almunia keeps Watford in it. And Anya breaks downfield, and finds Forestieri. Forestieri, right edge of the area, gets the cross in, Hogg is there, heads it down... You all know what comes next. 1 year ago today. Magical.
http://t.co/9QXj8WNhzQ https://twitter.com/watfordfcstats/status/465770759655526401 What a beautiful info graphic this is. May make it into a tshirt. At what point did you know we were going to score? The more I think about it, the earlier it was. When you see Deeney running in? Nothing is going to stop a goal No earlier. When Hogg heads it down, it's a certainty isn't it? No earlier When Forestieri, terrier like, a frightening, bewitching, skillful bloody terrier, jinks and shimmies and shines down the wing to cross. I thought about now that there was a good chance. Anya, Mercurial and speedy, covers the distance. Earlier? Of course Cassetti? Like a batsman turning fear to hope, defence into offence No it was the first save Almunias first save. The hope it inspired
Yes, pathetic defeat at Wembley and the next season spent reminiscing about a semi-final win rather than kicking on.
Deeney day??? Really??? Pathetic, why not move on just like Leicester did. Anybody know what happened to Knockaert & co?
I always think 'what if' with this goal... What if Knockaert had scored the penalty? What if Cassetti had cleared the ball out for a corner/throw in? What if Anya had a poor touch? What if Forestieri crossed it first time rather than second? What if Hogg went for glory himself? Happy Deeney Day!
Can someone please wake me up when this **** is surpassed by something actually being achieved by our poxy club abd its Sainted owners, rather than coming close.
I really don't see the issue with people reminiscing about one of the most amazing moments many of us have had supporting Watford, who cares what happened next? It won't change those two minutes of complete elation. Nothing can take away the feeling you had the moment Deeney put that in, I wouldn't change a thing. We'd of probably gone down anyway.
Are you saying that you would take a couple of minutes of wild celebration and some nice memories over the club achieving something?
You probably knock one out thinking about girls you nearly shagged abd dream of buying stuff with the money you nearly won on abet you were going to place but didn't. I prefer to look at reality. Leicester are going to be in the Prem with Palace next year, whilst we will still be in the second tier with all our borrowed players. Joke is on us.
Agreed. As Cardiff have just found out and we have found out twice; the chase is often better than the supposed 'promise land' of Premier League football. Just because things didn't work out after that goal it doesn't mean it shouldn't be remembered or celebrated for the moment it was. If you choose not to remember or acknowledge a moment like that you're left with very little in football.
No, but under the Pozzo's I don't feel like last season is a flash in the pan, it's not as easy as perhaps they predicted but eventually they will get us promoted, and when they do we will be a hell of a lot more ready than we'd of been this summer. Until then, why not look back at a really special moment, that very few fans in football will have ever experienced. The Premiership is overrated anyway, the fun ends at getting promoted.
A great goal that will be quite rightly fondly remembered but I wish it had happened the other way round now and we then went and won The Championship the following year.
It's moments that make being a football fan exciting, not the big picture. The moment Allan Smart scored at Wembley in '99 means a hell of a lot more to me than the 12 months of dross that followed or the millions that entered (and very quickly left) the club's bank account. The moment Stephen Glass curled in a free-kick to put us in an FA Cup Semi Final for the first time in my supporting life lives longer in the memory than the result of the Semi Final itself. And the moment I went from having my head in my hands at end of last season to being in sheer ecstasy 20 secs later was one of the biggest emotional rollercoaster's I've ever experienced and I wouldn't trade it in for "achieving" something. Yes I wish we'd gone up, but we didn't. And when I look back at the moments that make up my supporting life, that goal will be pretty much at the top.
The simple fact is that being a Watford fan is so rubbish that this is the best thing we've ever done.
I don't entirely agree that individual moments are better than success and winning trophies, but I see where you're coming from.
Not sure why anyone would have a problem with someone else reminiscing about a fantastic moment. If you don't want to celebrate it, don't celebrate it. We'll get promoted to the top tier at some point in the future. Whether it's next year or 10 years from now, it'll probably happen again. A moment like Deeney's goal almost certainly won't. Cherish it, whether it led to promotion or not.
Unfortunately, apart from two play off final wins and a couple of lower league championships that is all we have.
I don't agree. I want us to win promotion, not some poxy ESPN "most watched sporting moment" award. Until we do that, moments like the Deeney one are largely meaningless.
For a club our size and with our history, we're never going to be winning trophy's regularly - hell we've only ever won a couple of Championship play-offs and the Lg 1 and 2 titles - so the moments have to mean something or it's not much fun being a fan! It's difficult to define what achieving success is for a lot of clubs. If like most it is mid-table mediocrity in the Premier League, the odd cup run (run, not win) and financial stability then what is there to get excited about if not the moments along the way.
This thread has changed my opinion. Let's forget it happened. Unless we are man city or Madrid it's all pointless
I imagine Birmingham fans will look back on the last minute of their last game in years to come and remember with much fondness, Doncaster had a great moment that they won't forget despite getting relegated this year. There's been moments I remember like it were yesterday - Paul Wilkinson scoring at Oxford whilst I was in the Oxford end, being 3-0 up in 20 minutes against Southend with one of their players playing for us, Dennis Bailey, GT returning to the vic, Doyleys goal, Peter Kennedy scoring from restart against Di Canios Sheffield Wed, Gary Porters Bolton come back hat trick, Jason Lees winner at Fulham, Allan Smarts goal, Demerit powering in the first at Cardiff. Deeneys goal in the last minute of stoppage time after a penalty save is almost certainly the best of these moments. There will always be a mediocrity to come back to after these rare highlights, there'll be other memories, other victories and other achievements - as well as more failures, more last minute goals and more dodgy signings. I for one will always remember these great moments that make the game and being a fan special. Anyone who fails to understand or appreciate that is missing out. I also feel sorry for Leicester, because despite having a fantastic achievement this year, they won promotion without playing a game, without that one pivotal goal or moment. And they'll get stuffed next year.
I hope you feel ashamed if you even got out of your seat to celebrate the goal. I had to throw sand on this fire. It's like a bad dream.....Which turned into a really dirty one for about a year.
Anyone who seriously started or contributed to "#DeeneyDay" on twitter, shut down all social media and don't speak to anyone for a week. That's embarrassing. I'm not saying we shouldn't enjoy the moment, once in a while, it provided us with a moment only probably seen by Donny fans a few weeks earlier... However to go on about it? Move on.
We've had promotions before, we'll probably have promotions again. Some supporters never experience a moment like that.
I think Gary Porter scored a hat trick. Remind me of the date and I'll post a new thread on the anniversary
No - and that's my point. Most of a football season is made up of forgettable games that you probably don't even remember attending a few years later, but some live long in the memory - regardless of their importance in the grand scheme of things. One example I thought of the other day was Hegulson's 20 minute cameo on his 2nd debut (against Leicester). It meant nothing in the long term, but the celebrations and atmosphere when he scored not once but twice were great and were probably one of very few highlights (Doyley v QPR is another one) in an otherwise dull season.
