I suppose that there have been many over the years, especially during the GT era(s) - but I think this has to be my particular favourite.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj7rGTrpjw0 It's just a shame there were no cameras there.....
Great evening eh Those were the days.... [video=youtube;bdHcACIP-hg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdHcACIP-hg[/video]
Love that shot of Cally getting his shot away- by 'eck he could hit them. I've told the story before of how I missed the game because I was on holiday in the Lake District. Couldn't get a newspaper for the score, so heard about it when we near the top of Great Gable and a crowd of WBGS lads came yomping up towards us.
Good one... My fave memory of goals is the 8-0..... incredulous after the game as 100s of WFC supporters got on the train at W High St station
What a great night that was! The whole thing couldn't have been written, 4-0 down from the first leg; Ray Train rarely scored; young Nigel Callaghan (had he made a first team start by then?) scoring the goal that put us in front for the first time; the very unfortunate own goal when the ball rebounded off of Sims just as we had started to believe the upset was possible. My season ticket in those days was in the 'New Stand' (the old bit that is still standing for now) and I remember vividly how I sat there finding it hard to believe what was happening! The 8-0 against Sunderland was great, but for the Southampton game we were in the division below and they were at the time flying high at the top of the 1st (now Premiership), and we were 4-0 down! The next round (I think) was also another great night when we again played a high flying top division team, Notts Forest and beat them, was it 4-0 or 4-1 or similar, and I think Roscoe scored a hat trick? or is my memory deceiving me?
Not quite, we played at Hillsborough in the next round, winning 2-1, then played Forest at home to win 4-1. Yes, Ross did get a hattrick and, inevitably, it was Luther that got the fourth. Incidentally, after the 7-1 hammering on the Tuesday, we went to Gay Meadow and lost 2-1 to Shrewsbury Town! I seem to remember GT saying that he wished we had kept a couple of goals back from the Saints game to use against the Shrews. Of course, we would then not have gone through.......
Why would the television have attended? Southampton were at the top of the league and would hold Watford easily. My best game was Watford - Leicester when Heiðar Helguson came to Watford for the second time. 0:2 at half game 3:2 near the end with two goals from Heiðar and unhappily he went off and the game was drawn.
May not have had the same amount of goals, and the same deficit from the first leg, but the home tie against Kaiserslautern in the EUFA cup was another great night to remember! 3-1 down from the first leg against a 'major European team', and having to play a lot of very young and inexperienced lads at home due to a lot of injuries, and we were 2-0 up in the first 10 mins, to go on and win 3-0 and 4-3 on aggregate!
I was a young lad of 5 when we played that game v Southampton....we were holidaying in Ibiza (not the party centre it is today) and there was a bunch of West brim supporters who had been giving my dad grief before the game. The next day when they told me the score, I thought they were having me on and just would not believe them - until they bought me the paper the following day!
I was thinking about the Southampton yesterday, following NZs 5-1 defeat to Mexico. Anything is possible. Having said that I don't think anything will ever match the expressions on people's faces as they left the Vic that night. The sense of unreality was phenomenal. The looks on a couple of Southampton fans' faces were equal to ours.
That Southampton game was played before our record home attendance of approximately 67,000 according to the number of people who claimed to have been there....
For me the Bolton Play-off final is my best Watford memory. Ah, that and terrorising the bars and nightclubs there when I was around....
