Nationwide Division One, 20/12/03, 3.00pm
Watford
versus
Stoke City
 
Previous encounters

Last time: 1-2 (22/03/03)
Lingering memory: Peter Hoekstra. You know it ain't your day when that happens
Previous results: See Watford Versus...

Our opponents

Background: See season preview
Last match: vs. Reading (H, 13/12/03, W3-0)
Last line-up: E.De Goey, J.Halls, W.Thomas, G.Taggart, C.Clarke, J.Eustace, D.Russell, P.Hoekstra, L.Neal, G.Noel-Williams, A.Akinbiyi (Subs: N.Cutler, R.Johnson, C.Asaba, M.Hall, K.Commons)
Ex-Potters at Watford: None
Ex-Hornets at Stoke: Richard Johnson, Gifton Noel-Williams
Mutual friends: Dave Bamber, Tommy Mooney, Allan Smart, Brian Talbot, Mark Williams
Web sites: Potters Underground, The Oatcake (Rivals), Official

Shorts, Scarf or Souwester?: See Met Office (London)

On this day

Previous reports: AFC Bournemouth 0 Watford 1, 20/12/97
Celebrity birthdays: Uri Geller (1946), Billy Bragg (1958)
Historical events: Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman patented the pneumatic tyre (1892), Middlesbrough call off a forthcoming game with Blackburn due to lack of available players. They are deducted points and subsequently relegated. (1996)
Saint of the day: Dominic of Silos, an Eleventh Century Spaniard, is the saint to remember in times of peril. As well as being famous for appearing in visions to Spanish prisoners of war to help them to escape, he is also the saint to protect you from insects and mad dogs.