Championship Result 6th August 2010

Norwich City 2-3 Watford
It’s started! The Championship opened with Watford beating Norwich City away. With Watford predicted by many to go down and Norwich thought to be in with a chance of the play-offs, this result could be a bit of a surprise. But then again, Norwich lost their opening game of last season as well. Colchester United beat them 7-1. And that didn’t exactly ruin the season for Norwich.
Andrew Crofts marked his Norwich debut with a 52nd minute goal which brought the game back to 2-1. He also got the assist for Norwich’s second goal in the 91st minute but unfortunately Watford had scored again by then so they were still a goal behind.
There was no place in the squad for Josh Dawkin, who recently signed his first professional contract with Norwich.
Owain Tudur Jones also missed out but as he’s on trial with Plymouth Argyle, it probably seemed a bit pointless to go all the way back to Norwich and more than likely not get on the bench. Let’s hope that Owain is soon playing every week for a new club.
Jonathan Bond is another who has just signed his first professional contract but in his case it was a contract with Watford. He wasn’t on the bench but I’m sure he would have been if Watford had decided to put two goalkeepers on the bench instead of one.