Monthly Archives: March 1999

20th March 1999- New Division One, Watford 0 Bury 0

If you want an indication of the loyalty of the Watford fans, it is that nine thousand people did actually choose to spend their money on this, a football match that had absolutely nothing to recommend it. That’s the club’s core support right there – after all, roughly the same number turned up to see us against Crewe and Stockport, back when we were a good bet for some breezy Saturday afternoon entertainment.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1999-03-20

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1999-03-20

13th March 1999- New Division One, Oxford United 0 Watford 0

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

Sunday Mirror, 14 Mar 1999

Sunday People, 14 Mar 1999

BSAD: It is impossible to be completely bored at the Manor Ground, a wonderfully bizarre creation of the “pin the tail on the donkey” school of architecture. It’s a Tommy Cooper kinda stadium, if you know what I mean, and I have an inexplicable fondness for it (although possibly not eleven quid’s worth of fondness). Perhaps I like the place because there’s clearly no room for it in modern football, or perhaps it’s just that it can provide momentary distraction from a soggy, tasteless pudding of a game.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1999-03-13

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/13-march-1999/

6th March 1999- New Division One, Sheffield United 3 Watford 0

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

Sunday People, 7 Mar 1999

Sunday Mirror, 7 Mar 1999

BSAD: It defies logic really. Your side are completely outclassed… you have little imagination or penetration up front, are losing out in midfield, and are struggling at the back. Then you score twice just before half-time, and Bob’s yer uncle. United, it must be said, will have had unluckier days….

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1999-03-06

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/06-march-1999/

2nd March 1999- New Division One, Ipswich Town 3 Watford 2

Programme images courtesy of Matt Hall

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

Daily Telegraph, 3 Mar 1999

It was a curious match, in a thoroughly depressing kinda way. Despite dominating for long periods, despite out-doing Ipswich in terms of goal attempts, we were strictly second best. In the final third, there was simply no comparison. The first half statistics said it all – three shots for Ipswich, of which two were goals and one forced Alec Chamberlain into a fine save; five shots for Watford, none of which required Richard Wright to move a muscle. That’s the difference.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1999-03-02

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/02-march-1999/

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