Saturday, September 20, 2008

Watford entertained Reading at Vicarage Road. With the game 13 minutes old, referee Stuart Attwell awarded the visitors a goal on his assistant Nigel Bannister's advice despite the ball going no closer to the goal line than a rebound off the crossbar.

Watford rallied in response to this soon-to-be-notorious 'ghost goal', and Reading needed a late penalty to salvage a 2-2 draw after Tommy Smith and John-Joe O'Toole had overturned the visitors' lead.

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

And if you need reminding why that 'goal' was so notorious, here it is again