WATFORD V COVENTRY CITY
TUESDAY SATURDAY 29TH AT 7.45PM
AT VICARAGE ROAD, STADIUM,WATFORD, WD18 0ER
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 7.45pm.
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MEDIA COVERAGE
Commentary available on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire plus Mercia FM but not on-line unless you pay for Sky Blue Player as well as the radio stations covering Watford.
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TRAVEL
Coach departs the Ricoh Arena at 4.30pm. Coach prices are Non Members Adults £25, Concessions £22. Adult Members including season ticket holders £19, Concession Members £15.
By Car
M1 to junction 5 and take the A4408 towards Watford Town Centre. This will take you round the ring road and follow the signs for Watford General Hospital as the ground is next to the hospital.
From the North: Join the M25 and follow until Junction 20. Exit and follow signs for Hempstead Road, follow Hempstead Road into central Watford. Follow the large roundabout system at the end of Hempstead Road and exit towards Rickmansworth A412. Follow this road for 1/4 mile and turn left at the end of the underpass. Go through two traffic lights and turn left into 'The Hornets' at the East end of Vicarage Road.
From the South: Join the M25 and head north past M4/Heathrow, then past the M40 Oxford Exit at Junction 16. Take the exit at Junction 18. The slip road goes up to a bridge going across the motorway, turn left towards Rickmansworth. Head down into Rickmansworth until you arrive at a large roundabout near Rickmansworth BR station. Turn left here along the A412 towards Watford. Follow signs into Croxley Green. Continue straight over at the two roundabouts past Croxley, then take the fifth right exit on to Harwood Road. Continue straight down, heading straight over the traffic lights, until you come to the end of the road. At the end turn left and you will now be on Vicarage Road, continue for a few hundred metres and you will see the ground on your right hand side.
By train and tube
The nearest station is Watford High Street, a ten minute walk away from the ground. Watford Junction train station is about a 20 minute walk. Directions from Watford Junction are as follows:
Leave the station and take the main road straight opposite (Clarendon Road) all the way over the Ring Road at the lights and up to the High Street. Turn left and go past the Wetherspoons (Moon under Water) on your right and then take the first right after 100 yards into Market Street. Continue along again crossing Ring Road to T junction and then left the chip shop. Vicarage Road is the next right turn.
Watford has its own London Underground tube station, which is on the Metropolitan Line and is situated just under one mile from Vicarage Road.
Parking
There is no parking available for fans at the ground and street parking is exclusively restricted for local residents by way of matchday permits. Parking is not permitted in Watford General Hospital.
Watford town centre has several car parks, the easiest of which for access to Vicarage Road is Church Car Park on the inside of the ring-road, opposite the turn-off into Vicarage Road. All town centre car parks are within a ten minute walk of Vicarage Road. Other possibilities are Watford Grammar School for Girls and Cassiobury Park Avenue, Laurence Haines School (further down Vicarage Road past the hospital), and Fishers Industrial Estate off Wiggenhall Road.
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ADMISSION
Adults £22.50, Over 65's/Students/16-19 £12.50 and U16's £9.50. Ambulant Disabled/Carer £22.50. City have an allocation of 2,500 tickets.
Please note that all hospitality has been sold and there is none available.
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THE LAST TIME
This is the 75th meeting of the two sides. City have won 26 and drawn 12, scoring 102 goals compared to Watford's 122.
The last meeting saw a 3-2 win for Watford at the Ricoh Arena on April 25th 2009 after City had been 2-0 up.
In the corresponding fixture last season, City, lost 2-1 in a match that was very lucky to have even started due to all the rain. Tommy Smith put Watford ahead before Clinton Morrison equalised in the 66th minute but six minutes later, John Joe O'Toole hit the winner for the visitors in front of a 14,075 gate.
The teams that day were:
City
Westwood,Fox,Hall,Turner,Ward,Gunnarsson,Tabb,Eastwood,Simpson,Morrison,Doyle (Best 75) SNU Marshall,Walker,Clarke,Wynter
Watford Loach, Sadler (Brocutt 81),Bromby, Priskin, Doyley,Williamson (McAnuff 86), Harley (Robinson 59), Smith,Mariappa, O'Toole,Henderson SNU De Merit,Hoskins
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's Championship fixture at Watford is Andre Marriner from Solihull.
A one time resident of Walsgrave and former goalkeeper who turned to refereeing after picking up a number of injuries, Mr Marriner has had four Premier League matches so far this season, booking 14 and showing one red card. This will be his first Championship game this season.
He has also been in charge of Újpest FC Europa League defeat to Steaua, Twente's 3:1 win against Karabakh and Spain U21's 2-0 win over Poland,
His last City game was the 3-1 win at Stoke City in November 2007.
Assistants are Mark Scholes from Buckinghamshire & Andy Newbold from Leicestershire. The Fourth Official is Grant Hegley from Hertfordshire.
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BETTING ODDS
See http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/coca-cola-championship/watford-v-coventry/win-market