Nationwide Division One, 07/09/02, 1pm
Watford
versus
Walsall
 
Previous encounters

Last time: 2-1 (27/08/01)
Lingering memory: Neil Cox's reinvention.
Previous results: See Watford Versus...

Our opponents

Background: See season preview
Last match: vs. Reading (H, 31/08/02, L0-2)
Last line-up: J.Walker, D.Bazeley, Z.Aranalde, D.Hay, I.Roper, D.Wrack, D.Sonner, R.Martinez, G.Birch, J.Leitão, S.Corica (Subs: P.Matias, Junior, D.Zdrilic, T.Barras, G.Ward)
Ex-Saddlers at Watford: None
Ex-Hornets at Walsall: Darren Bazeley, Colin Lee
Mutual friends: D.Bamber, D.Byrne, S.Cherry, Dv.Holdsworth, C.Palmer, G.Porter, S.Rimmer, L.Sinnott, R.Train, G.Williams
Web sites: Up the Saddlers.com, Saddlers Net (Rivals), The Walsall Web, Official

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

On this day

Previous reports: Watford 2 Wycombe Wanderers 1, 07/09/97, Watford 1 Stockport County 0, 07/09/96
Celebrity birthdays: Elizabeth I (1533), Gloria Gaynor (1949)
Historical events: Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator (1888), Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, died in London after overdosing on Hemenephirin at the age of 31 (1978)
Saint of the day: The grandson of the first Christian king of the Franks, Saint Cloud took no interest in power and status. Which was lucky for him, as his uncles stabbed his two brothers in the armpits to get to the throne. Instead, Cloud lived most of his short life as a hermit until his guilty uncles endowed him with his own monastery.