Football League Division Two, 31/08/04, 7.45pm
Leeds United
versus
Watford
 
Previous encounters

Last time: 1-3 (03/05/00)
Previous results: See Watford Versus...

Our opponents

Background: See season preview
Last match: vs. Nottingham Forest (H, 21/08/04, D1-1)
Last line-up: N.Sullivan, G.Kelly, P.Butler, C.Carlisle, S.Crainey, F.Richardson, S.Guppy, J.Wright, D.Pugh, J.Joachim, B.Deane (Subs: M.Kilgallon, M.Ricketts, S.Walton, J.McMaster, S.Carson)
Ex-Whites at Watford: None
Ex-Hornets at Leeds: Sam Ellis
Mutual friends: Mark Gavin, Steve Hodge, Rick Holden, Richard Jobson, John McClelland, Paul Okon, Carlton Palmer, Jermaine Pennant, Gary Williams
Web sites: Leedsfans.org.uk, To Ell and Back (Rivals), Official

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

On this day

Previous reports: Watford 0 Norwich City 4, 31/08/02, Crewe Alexandra 0 Watford 2, 31/08/96, Southampton 1 Watford 4, 31/08/82
Saint of the Day: Raymond Nonnatus was a Catalonian monk who incurred the wrath of the Tunisians for preaching about Christianity. He was sentenced to death but was granted a reduced sentence, and had his mouth padlocked shut instead.

Further information

Nicholas Ralph's Numbers: Game 6 - The first "perfect" number. Its factors are 1, 2, and 3. And 6 = 1+2+3. (Although this doesn't change its perfection, 6 = 1x2x3, also.)
Lucky animal: Highland Cattle.
Unlucky food: You know those pre-prepared vegetables that you can buy from Marks and Spencer, like carrots that have been peeled and cut into sticks on your behalf by some penniless student in a dismal factory near Colchester for minimum-wage-per-hour and then sold back to you for about ten times the price of a normal, unhacked carrot at your local greengrocer? Because, obviously, it takes so long to peel and chop a carrot? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, anyway...those.