Watford Women celebrated the FA Women's National League South title despite losing 4-2 to Bournemouth at Vicarage Road on Sunday.
The game had been hyped up all season as a winner-takes-all clash but the Golden Girls secured the title with their win at Gwalia United on Easter Sunday.
That meant Renee Hector's side could relax for this clash, played in front of 1,249 supporters - one of whom was Spice Girl Geri Halliwell - in WD18.
It was a good job they didn't need to win it because Bournemouth raced into a 3-0 lead inside the first half, as Sophie Quirk, Zoe Barratt and Amber Treweek scored at the Rookery End.
Madison Perry smashed in Watford's first goal before the break, but her side couldn't get anything going after the break as the game seemed to be slipping away.
Finally, with less than 10 minutes remaining, substitute Flo Fyfe brilliantly curled in to pull another one back and really get the home contingent bouncing.
Anna Filbey then fired just over the bar, the closest the Golden Girls came to an equaliser, before Kenni Thompson dispatched a late penalty after Meg Chandler's foul to seal the deal.
Nobody inside the stadium minded too much, though, with Hector and Chandler leading the celebrations with the trophy after the whistle.
Watford XI: Hillyerd, Meiwald (McLean 54), Skyers, Chandler, Filbey, Rossiter (Georgiou 70), Wilson, Haines (Whitelock 81), Perry, Carpenter (Paul 61), Gray (Fyfe 66)
Substitues: McSheffrey, Hind
