Saturday, September 25, 1982

Having topped the first division a fortnight earlier, the Hornets raised eyebrows further by recording their highest league victory with an exhilerating 8-0 demolition of Sunderland.

Luther Blissett was to record his long-awaited first hat-trick, scoring four of the goals, whilst Ross Jenkins and Nigel Callaghan added two apiece.

Watford hit the woodwork a further four times, and visiting goalkeeper Chris Turner pulled off a string of saves to keep the score down.

Beleaguered Sunderland manager Alan Durban was famously quoted after the game as saying: "Get me a video of that. It was brilliant."

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

You can relive the goals from one of the greatest days in the club's history here.