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  • Anya scores against world champions

    A fine Scotland performance ultimately went unrewarded as they were beaten 2-1 by Germany tonight but Ikechi Anya will have good reason to remember Sunday, September 7, 2014 for the rest of his career after scoring against the world champions in their

  • Watford observed - more stories from Augusts past

    One of Life’s Little Dramas was enacted in a Berkhamsted side street on Monday. At dusk, a man was seen to walk to the edge of the kerb, wait until he thought everybody was out of sight, and then, after furtively glancing round, drop something down

  • What's going on here, then?

    Taking the weight of the biggest helmet in any police force in the world are officers from Watford and St Albans. Hertfordshire police officers will be accompanying the 90lb helmet to Boston to commemorate the Boston Tea Party and at the same time

  • Floods and a riot - how it was in 1879

    "There are probably many inhabitants of Watford and district who are able to remember the great storm and flood at Hunton Bridge in 1879.”  Not true today, of course (unless anyone out there is 135 years old, in which case please get in touch)

  • On this date in Watford FC history

    Saturday, September 7, 1963 A home game with Wrexham saw the Hornets give a debut to Ron Spelman, an outside-right who had faced Watford with his previous club, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, the previous weekend. After Ernie Phythian

  • September 7, 1979

    Luther Blissett is poised to make an appearance in the England Under-21 International at Vicarage Road on Tuesday night – the first gane of its type ever to be staged at the ground. Blissett is included in the Under-21 squad which takes on Denmark