Chris Rand looks at the fixtures where a Town victory is well overdue, with the biggest one of all just coming up.

Why does a match against Watford always bring a sinking feeling to my heart? It's got some justification in recent years, it would seem. Town's recent record against the Hornets is nothing short of abysmal, and they really do earn the label 'bogey team'.

It's now 11 successive league matches, and 12 in all competitions, without a win for Town against them.

And with that, the sequence is marching up the all-time table of winless sequences for Town against individual clubs. Here's how it currently stands.

EVERTON 15 matches (1962-1974)

ARSENAL 13 matches (1985-present)

CHELSEA 12 matches (1962-1972)

LEEDS UTD 11 matches (1970-1975)

WATFORD 11 matches (2004-present)

Of course, it would be criminal to look at league matches alone, with the recent win against Arsenal under the team's collective belt, so here are the current longest sequences without a win against individual clubs, in all competitions. And indeed, Watford have "bogey team" tattooed on their foreheads:

WATFORD 12 matches (most recent fixture: Oct 2010)

CHELSEA 10 matches (Jan 2011)

ASTON VILLA 7 matches (March 2002)

PRESTON NE 6 matches (Dec 2010) STOKE CITY 6 matches (Feb 2008)

NEWCASTLE UTD 5 matches (April 2010) SWANSEA CITY 5 matches (Dec 2010) WEST HAM UTD 5 matches (May 2005)

Let's hope the jinx can be broken on Tuesday night. If the result goes Watford's way, it'll be a third home league defeat in succession, a surprisingly rare event.

Inevitably I had to go back to the record books to see when this last happened, and to my surprise, it was only last November, a fact that went largely unremarked. Before that, the previous time was (inevitably) back in the ill-fated 2001-02 Premiership season, and the last time it happened at this level was way back in 1995-96, with this sorry sequence:

23/09/1995 v Charlton Athletic: 1-5 (attendance 12,815, scorer Claus Thomsen) 07/10/1995 v Wolverhampton Wanderers: 1-2 (15,335, Steve Sedgley) 22/10/1995 v Luton Town: 0-1 (9,123)

dirtydingusmagee added 19:22 - Mar 13 Narridge are THE biggest bogeys ....GREAT BIG GREEN AND YELLOW ONES ! we must cuff em !
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Calmingwind added 09:49 - Mar 15 certainly is a bit of voodoo with regards to the hornets, i can see malcy makai now with 11 little blue and white dolls, sticking pins in them before kickoff. i remeber that 95 0-1 luton defeat, as it was the first time ever i had seen town on TV. was on sunday kick-off on anglia with alan brazil. pitch was bloody awful back then total sand pit.
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TractorRoyNo1 added 11:48 - Mar 16 nothing to do with bogeymen, just simply they put in more effort than our players - it's called 'the will to win'.
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