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Luton became the first club to have met Watford in Southern League or Football League fixtures on all seven days of the week.
Steve Leo Beleck - son of Thomas Libiih (Cameroon).
George Toone
His surname is an anagram of ex loanee (Alex) Cauna.
He was the first player to score for Watford in a Sunday match of any kind: A 2-1 friendly win v Valletta (Malta) (away), 1 June 1969.
The failure to score in both meetings with opponents (Yeovil United) the club had never met in the League before.
Alan Pardew, in a 2-1 win for Charlton at the Valley on 26 Feb 1994.
Billy Biggar and Frank Kelly v Grays United(H) on 28 Feb 1906.
They've all come on as substitutes and have then been substituted in the same match.
His was the only one of 38 penalty-kicks faced by Alec Chamberlain (excluding shoot-outs) that the goalkeeper prevented from resulting in a goal.
Andrew Iga who signed for Watford FC in August 1997.
Arthur Tempest Blakiston Dunn.
They were, respectively, the oldest (39 years and 144 days) and youngest (17 years and 316 days) players to be sent off for Watford.
John Francis in a game against Sheffield United on 28th October 1989.
As at June 2014, Brendan Rodgers is the son-on-law of Mike Kearney and a first cousin of York City manager Nigel Worthington.
James Chambers scored his first league goal in his 333rd appearance (for Walsall vs Sheff Utd).
They all scored in matches in which they were sent off.
They are Watford's six most substitituted players in league matches.
Notts County is the odd one out. The others are the only four to have scored four league goals against Watford and lost.
Marlon King at Derby County on 29th August 2005.
Luton and Sheffield United are the only two clubs to have been both promoted and relegated with Watford.
They were the last three players to score five goals in a game for the Reserves.
Tom Aldred, in July 2010
Danny Graham: He’s the only one who didn’t make his Watford début on a Sunday.
John McClelland.
David Byrne played for all of them.
Steve Butler scored his only Vicarage Road goal in 21 + 15 sub home appearances
Craig Mackail-Smith, for Brighton & Hove Albion on 18 September 2012
John Fairbrother
Two Hertfordshire-born players (Paul Robinson & Tommy Smith) scored for Watford in the same game.
They were the only seasons with first-team appearances by players whose forename begins with the letter "O". (Oscar A.Horne, Ormond H.Jones, Okeremute S.Sodje, Odion J.Ighalo)
They all managed clubs in the English top tier, and the only other Watford player to have done so is Ron Saunders.
Aidy Boothroyd became the first Watford manager to experience defeat in each of his first three league matches
AFC Bournemouth's Ian Harte shot wide from the penalty spot. The last visiting player to do so was Robbie Blake of Burnley on 30th September 2003.
Duncan Welbourne. Each of the six players made more Watford league starts and/or scored more goals than any other player born in England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales, respectively.
36) What is the significance of this 1980s fantasy XI (in which Steve Sherwood's appearance at centre-forward is the only questionable selection)?: 1 Coton, 2 Gibbs, 3 Rostron, 4 Taylor, 5 Terry, 6 McClelland, 7 Callaghan, 8 Blissett, 9 Sherwood (S.), 10 Jackett, 11 Barnes.
They are the only 11 players to have made at least a hundred top-flight starts for Watford.
Jermaine Pennant
They created still-existing club records with over 250 consecutive Football League appearances, and A.N.Other is Sandy Pate. (Keen 253 for Queens Park Rangers, Walker 271 for Colchester United, Welbourne 280 for Watford and Pate 314 for Mansfield Town.)
It was the clubs' 100th meeting in the Southern League/Football League, and the first time Watford had reached that total against any opposing club.
40) Who is the odd one out?: Trevor Benjamin, Hameur Bouazza, Patrick Blondeau, Will Buckley, Chris Day, Lloyd Doyley, Sean Dyche, Willie Falconer, Malky Mackay, Lenny Pidgeley, Marvin Sordell, Steve Talboys, Marcello Trotta, Devon White
Sean Dyche is the only one who didn't play in the FA Premier League.
Luther Blissett scored his 200th Football League goal.
42) What connects all these Watford managers except one, and who is the odd one out?: Bassett, Burgess, Dyche, Goulden, Hapgood, Harrison, Jokanovic, Keen, Kent, Kirby, Lee, Lewington, Mackay, McKinlay, Pagnam, Paton,Perryman, Roeder, Vialli, Zola
Harry Kent is the only one who never played for a London club.
Watford won by a three-goal margin at Hillsborough for the third time in three successive visits, having never previously recorded such a sequence on any away ground in Southern, Football or FA Premier League matches.
They were the first and last matches in the club's longest sequence of 37 away league games without a clean sheet.
Against Cardiff City the club fielded a player with all five vowels in his surname. (Guedioura)
Mick Quinn, as he is the only player to have scored in each of his first six Premier League appearances.
A loan signing scored twice on their last game for the club
He is the first since Blissett to have (a) scored 20 or more league goals in each of two consecutive seasons, (b) scored a total of five goals in two consecutive league games, and (c) reached a career tally of 67 league goals for the club.
A list of the number of Football League/Premier League matches played on each of the 227 grounds used since the Football League started in 1888, with Dean Court in 38th place, Vicarage Road 39th & Gresty Road 40th.
Top of the list is Deepdale (Preston North End).
They are the only clubs to have conceded goals scored by a Watford player-manager - McBain (3), Furphy (1) & Keen (2)
Chris Day (Stevenage)
He played in the game's top tier for four clubs under the same manager (Dave Bassett).
Brian Talbot for Arsenal in 1978/79
The southernmost and northernmost hat-tricks in competitive matches, at (a) Torquay and (b) York.
Each of them won his final match as the club's manager.
Espen Baardsen, in 2001/02 - first against Rotherham United and then West Bromwich Albion, whose foiled marksman scored at the second attempt, following up.
They provided the only two instances so far this season of Watford's starting line-up being the same in consecutive league matches.
Paton is the oldest to have lived and Findlay is the youngest to have died.
While attached to Watford they scored for their countries but not for the club.
Jure Travner, for Reading on 14 March 2015
Mat Sadler
Darnell Furlong, for Queens Park Rangers
Darius Henderson - all the others have Anthony as a middle name
Toumani Diagouraga, in the Associate Members Cup Final of 2010/11
Danny Graham: v Crystal Palace (a) 28 Nov 2009 and v Cardiff City (h) 28 Dec 2010. Both kicks were saved.
They were all sent off when playing for Watford against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Scott Loach, for Rotherham United, Bury, Peterborough United and Yeovil Town.
Aberdare Athletic. They are the only seven clubs beaten 6-0 by Watford in Southern League/Football League/Premier League fixtures.
Danny Rose. The match was at Doncaster, the town in which he was born.
They were the only players to have taken part in every league match in one or more of the last 15 seasons.
Jimmy Bowie scored three goals in the 4-6 defeat at Shrewsbury. It remains the only Watford hat-trick in a losing cause in a peacetime league match.
Dominic Foley - he's the only one who hasn't score at Wembley Stadium.
Jordon Mutch at Millwall - 6-1 with Watford, 4-1 & 6-0 with Birmingham City.
They were the first four visitors to Vicarage Road.
Javier Acuna
Jordon Mutch is the only one who didn't score in his final Watford appearance.
Miguel Layún. They are the most recent scorers of Watford’s first League goal of the season.
The club had previously fielded players who were born in exactly 50 different countries, but Holebas was the first who was born in Germany/East Germany/West Germany.
Lionel Ainsworth, with Motherwell.
Chris Powell is the oldest outfield player to have made a Watford appearance in the top tier, and likewise Rod Thomas the youngest.
King is the only one who never scored in a Football League play-off final.
Helguson never scored two goals for Watford in a top-tier away game.
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Which missing club completes this sequence?: Swindon Town, Derby County, Luton Town, Millwall, Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Blackpool, Bristol City, Cardiff City, West Ham United, Charlton Athletic.
Huddersfield Town, the last club to score four or more league goals at Vicarage Road.
It was the last occasion on which Watford fielded a starting eleven who had all been born in England.
His first and last league appearances were on Sundays.
Bellerin is the only one who had no Premier League or Football League experience before his Watford début.
It was the two clubs' first peacetime Football League meeting for 39 years - the longest period between consecutive peacetime League fixtures between Watford and any opposing club.
The club's three goalscorers on each occasion (Hazan/Johnson/Yates & Battocchio/Deeney/Merkel) were born on different continents.
Filippo Galli, on 27 August 2001
Trevor Benjamin
They were the last Englishmen to score (a) at Vicarage Road (Graham) and (b) away from home (Cleverley) on their Watford débuts.
Porter is (a) the only one who made fewer than a hundred top-flight appearances, and (b) the only one who played for Watford in the third tier.
They suffered a home league defeat in their first competitive match in charge.
Dean Holdsworth
In league matches at Vicarage Road they scored for both sides in less than five minutes.
In scoring a (wrongly awarded) goal Nathan Aké became only the club’s third scorer at home this season at much the latest date for such a Watford player in any season at any league level.
Nigel Callaghan. They are Watford's highest league scorers who were born outside the British Isles.
It meant that Football League away wins had been achieved against all 13 Greater London clubs which they had met in the competition.
They all scored for Watford in Football League or FA Premier League matches which were abandoned.
Swansea City. Watford have played top-flight away league games against each club at two different grounds.