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Discussion in 'The Golden Years' started by Stevohorn, Jul 4, 2018.

  1. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    Keith Mercer scored with his head if I remember correctly.
    In those days we didn't have VCR but I used to tape the commentary on my
    tape recorder. Sadly those old tapes have long since gone !!
     
  2. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Yes 2-0 wasn't it ?
     
  3. Davy Crockett

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    Correct.

    I ask because near the end of the coverage on The Big Match the cameras panned into
    the Rookery End and I briefly saw myself on TV which was a big thing back then!.
     
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  4. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    I’m usually pretty good with this stuff, but I don’t remember this game, or it being on The Big Match at all. It seems a strange choice of TV game but I suppose they were jumping on the bandwagon of Watford soaring away at the top of the 4th division at that time.
     
  5. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Think G Plumley was in goal for NC and played a blinder which was why about a dozen years later I wasn't too concerned that he was going to play in goal for us in a SF.
     
  6. Davy Crockett

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    We were runaway leaders at the time under GT so an element of intrigue .
    Brentford away and Southend home and away also televised. And West Ham in
    the FA Cup which wasn't shown due to industrial action.
     
  7. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Not Brentford away. That was the following season, a 3-3 draw. The 77/78 game was a 3-0 midweek win early in the season when Sam Ellis single-handedly repelled a half-hearted pitch invasion by some Brentford schoolboys.
     
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  8. Davy Crockett

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  9. Davy Crockett

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    Yep . I stand corrected. However see link in previous post for all Watford televised matches.
     
  10. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

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  11. HenryHooter

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    He was a legend at Newport. Me and a mate went up to see him at his wine bar, Romans, in Caerleon and he dropped us off at the ground afterwards for a match against Aylesbury. When he pulled up in the car park, the crowd started going potty and singing his name. He was a really good bloke, just a shame the Spurs game didn't go so well! We lost because of a lack of confidence in him, and frankly an all round lack of confidence anyway, rather than because of him, I believe. McLellend's half hearted block that sent the ball past GP just summed the whole thing up.
     
  12. Dreadnought

    Dreadnought MMC 2010/11 Prediction league 3rd 2011/12

    I was looking at http://watford.fcdb.info/ and they had a link to http://www.watfordfcarchive.co.uk/ so it is still there but is now .co.uk rather than .com

    So glad all the data Trefor amassed on the club is still available for us to enjoy.
     
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  13. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    If anyone doesn’t know, Matt Rowson and others are redeveloping the wonderful Watford archive at the moment and a new version will become available in the fullness of time.
     
  14. Davy Crockett

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    This is probably said as a person of a certain age however I can look at a seasons fixtures and results
    from the past and imagine how the games were played out
    much like I used to memorise cricket test matches
    from the 70s and visualise every days play. .The playfair cricket annual was my summer Bible !!. However today every goal in every game is shown on TV.. Maybe less is more . Probably I am
    a grumpy old man tho !.
    So , in conclusion, bring on the archive .I cannot wait !
     
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  23. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    I well remember it happening but fortunately it was just before I started going to away games in earnest, so I wasn’t there.

    Some fool in the WO comments section is claiming that it was the last time Watford played away to a non-league team in the Cup. What about Woking in 2019, mate?
     
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  24. Davy Crockett

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    I was there , I went with my mates on a half full coach as most others went on the football special or made their own way. We were 13/14 years old at the time and can you imagine 13/14 year olds going away unaccompanied these days ?.
    On the way we passed by a bunch of Crystal Palace coaches and as we had beaten them in the League cup that season we gave them the international sign of excellence.
    Anywho the coach stopped at a services just before the M6 turn off for Northwich and if you were northbound you had to cross the bridge to the services.
    Much to our delight on the way back across the bridge we encountered the Palace fans who had also stopped off and I still have the bruises to this day!!.
     
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  26. WillisWasTheWorst

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  27. wfc4ever

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    Scrappy goals but some from a corner and a long range shot.

    We don't get that now.

     
  28. ST1968

    ST1968 First Year Pro

    Brilliant night out.

    And never forget the ball-boy with the Mars bar.
     
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  29. Jossy

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    A 7 goal thriller in a 49 second highlight clip, brilliant!
     
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  30. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Perry Digweed. The worst keeper we’ve had I living memory ? Worse even than Perry Suckling and Simon Shepherd…
     
  31. Halfwayline

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    Incredible scenes in the away end…and in the car park afterwards that took about 3 hours to get out of
     
  32. Jossy

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  33. The undeniable truth

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  34. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    “He’s got a wine bar, he’s got a wine bar, you ain’t, you ain’t”.

    :D
     
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