Watford achieved a scoring feat that has not been seen since before the start of World War One yesterday.

Research by Watford Mailing List’s Jon Sinclair shows that, coupled with the 5-0 win over Charlton Athletic the previous weekend, the 7-2 victory over Blackpool is the first occasion the Hornets have scored 12 goals in successive matches since the end of the 1914-1918 war.

Watford scored 11 goals in consecutive games on three occasions in the 1930s, 12 has never beeen achieved before and the only time they’ve netted 13 in back-to-back matches was a 3-3 draw with Fulham Reserves followed by a 10-0 win over Southall in 1903/04.

Yesterday was the 14th time Watford have scored seven in a league match, the first since the 7-4 win at Burnley in April 2003, but the last occasion the Hornets netted so many at home was when they beat Bradford City, also 7-2, in December 1989. To put the scoring landmark into further modern-day context, yesterday was only the fifth time since 1960 a Watford side has hit seven in a league game.

Odion Ighalo can now list himself among some of the most illustrious names in the club’s history after becoming the 15th different player to score four or more goals in a league game for Watford.

Michael Chopra was the last to do it in that victory at Turf Moor in 2003, but the Nigerian striker also emulates the likes of Luther Blissett, Ross Jenkins, Maurice Cook and Tommy Barnett by finding the back of the net on four or more occasions in one game.

Ben Watson made his Hornets debut yesterday after joining from Wigan Athletic on Friday and Sinclair has also revealed that the only other time a debutant has been in a Watford team that scored seven since World War Two was Bernard Lewis in a 7-1 victory over Grimsby Town.

The manager that December 1967 day was Ken Furphy, who was remembered by two separate minute’s applause in the Blackpool win following his death last weekend.

Ighalo's four-goal blast and further efforts from Gabriele Angella, Troy Deeney and Matej Vydra lifted Watford's league tally to 56. The last Watford side to have scored more after 27 matches was Graham Taylor's old Division Four title-winning side in 1977/78, who had netted 60 after the same stage of the season.

We’ll take a more in-depth look at the times Watford have scored seven and those who have netted on four or more occasions in a game over the coming days.