Sky Blues On The Road - Watford

Please note all corporate hospitality for this game has sold out. John Gaunt is the guest speaker for those going in the Corporate areas.
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WEATHER
A rainy day with a temperature of five degrees is forecast.
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THE LAST TIME
This is the 73rd meeting of the two sides with Coventry having won 26 of those games. There has been 12 draws. City have scored 99 goals compared to Watford's 117

Head to Head http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadhed.asp

City's last visit to Vicarage Road saw a 2-1 defeat. Leon Best scored for City.
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THE MATCH OFFICIALS

The currently scheduled referee for this Championshp game is Jonathan Moss.

Mr Moss is from West Yorkshire and has had seventeen matches this season. He has issued 33 yellow cards and four red.

His last City game was the 2-0 League Cup win at Carlisle United last season and before that a 3-0 home win against Norwich City.

Assistants are Gary Hambling & Paul Melin. The fourth official is G.S. Evetts
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TRAVEL
Club Coach
Departure Time: 11.45pm
Adult: £23 Adult Member/ST Holder: £17 Concessions: £20 Concessions Member/ST Holder: £12

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 also 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.

There is a charity car park at the Radius House offices in Clarendon Road which offers all day parking. It is in support of the British Legion and GOSH (Great Ormond Street). There is car parking currently available at Westfield Community College, a 15 minute walk from the ground. ___________________________________________________________
BETTING ODDS
The Sky Blues are 9/4 to win with Watford 6/5 . You can get 23/10 on a draw.
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TEAM NEWS
Stephen Wright is again doubtful as is Guilluame Beuzelin. Chris Coleman is likely to stick with the sixteen which featured against Charlton Athletic.

Former Sky Blue John Eustace could start after coming on against Norwich City on Wednesday.
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SATURDAY FIXTURES

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Midland Combination Prem Div
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Midland Comb Reserve Div
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