Wednesday, December 7, 1983

Watford played what is to date their last game in European competition, bowing out of the UEFA Cup in Prague.

Sparta were already 3-2 up from the first leg, and proved more able to cope with the frozen conditions, winning 4-0 on the night.

Young right-back Nigel Gibbs was later to comment: "It was sickening how good they looked on that surface."

The game provided a debut for Francis Cassidy, a few minutes as substitute constituting his entire first team career at the club.

Reproduced by kind permission of Matt Rowson from his book, Watford FC On This Day