On this date in Watford FC's history
Thursday, March 7, 1991
Watford sold Gary Penrice to Aston Villa. He accrued the club's second highest transfer receipt to that point of £875,000, although a sell-on clause saw a percentage of this passed on to Bristol Rovers.
Penrice's Villa career was restricted by a broken leg; he was to return to Vicarage Road for a less prolific spell four years later.
Reproduced by kind permission of Matt Rowson from his book, Watford FC On This Day
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