Category Archives: Aidy Boothroyd

25th March 2006- Championship, Watford 0 Millwall 2

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The city of Sheffield rendered this result potentially disastrous for Watford and less than satisfactory for Millwall. While the Hornets lost vital promotion ground on a victorious Sheffield United, Millwall failed to make up any on Sheffield Wednesday, comfortable winners over Wolves, in their struggle for survival.

“It makes my back itch.” This is a favourite saying of my mother’s. It describes the feeling you get when something inevitable, and usually unpleasant or unfortunate, is about to happen. It is most often used when watching formulaic sit-coms featuring the likes of Frank Spencer or Mr Bean. It also applies to disaster movies such as “Titanic” or “Towering Inferno”. Quite why her back should itch, I don’t know but I know what she means. In these situations I would rather not watch. When your back itches, you can be sure that inevitable disaster will just be round the corner. The solution? Avoid watching things that have a script featuring inevitable disaster. I suppose that this disaster was inevitable from the moment I was asked to write the match report. I seem to get a lot of such games either for this website or the Free Observer. A home banker on paper, I just got that back-itching feeling (in my legs).

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2006-03-25

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/25-march-2006/

4th March 2006-Championship, Watford 2 Derby County 2

Substitute Al Bangura grabbed a late goal to rescue a point for Watford.

Kevin Lisbie gave Derby the lead against the run of play when he raced onto Adam Bolder’s pass and trickled a low shot into the far corner.

Marlon King fired the Hornets level with a smart finish from 18 yards and later hit the post as the home side poured forward.

But Giles Barnes slid in to put the Rams ahead before Bangura made it 2-2 with a fine shot deep in injury-time.

Boothroyd’s boldness reprieves wilting Watford

5 BSAD match reports

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25th February 2006- Championship, Watford 2 Cardiff City 1

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Ricardo Scimeca’s late blunder gifted Watford the win against visiting promotion rivals Cardiff City.

We started smartly and very positively, no punting to the touchline this week, just some neat simple passes which reaped almost instant rewards – though not from Eagles’ first touch forty-five yards out, despite this being greeted with cries of “Shoot!” Our first attack won a corner and led to the Hammer’s best effort of the whole match, which whistled past the far post after less than a minute’s play. But almost for the next eighty-nine, it seemed, the ball avoided the muddy pitch as much as possible, and was thus at the wind’s mercy. Despite spending most of the first half in the Cardiff penalty area, it also avoided the net, despite us forcing corner after corner, and some great crosses coming in from Eagles on the right. Cardiff’s defending was frantic early on, the ball even winding up near my old seat in the Upper Rous, which is more than it ever managed when I sat there week after week a few years ago. Where Darius would normally be alongside Marlon, up stepped Malky Mackay, and his was the eleventh minute header that first looked like breaking the deadlock. It beat Cardiff keeper Alexander, unlike many later efforts, but rebounded off the bar and Demerit couldn’t get his own header past Alexander’s impressive reach.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2006-02-25

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/25-february-2006/

11th February 2006- Championship, Watford 4 Coventry City 0

Ashley Young scored one and set up two more as Watford thrashed Coventry.

Watford are the form side in the Championship and they continued their good run with a victory romp inspired by Ashley Young. He opened the scoring and set up goals for Marlon King and Darius Henderson before Jay DeMerit wrapped up the points.

Eighteen goals in six games, six wins on the trot and the first sell-out for six seasons. Yet Watford’s manager Adrian Boothroyd says: “I don’t want anybody to get excited.” Who is he trying to kid?

Eleven goals in three games, five wins in a row, third in the table and Sheffield United suddenly looking human and utterly catchable meant that the challenge provided by the arrival of Coventry City, on a good run themselves, was clear. Could Boothroyd keep his players’ feet on the ground, stave off complacency and follow up the excellent win at Bramall Lane with another three points? More questions being asked of this Watford team, and more answers being emphatically provided.

Independent, 12 Feb 2006

Sunday Mirror, 12 Feb 2006

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2006-02-11

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/11-february-2006/

28th January 2006- Championship, Watford 4 Crewe Alexandra 1

Watford claimed third place in the Championship after thumping Crewe. Matthew Spring’s first-half double set up Watford’s win, the midfielder powering in a shot on 18 minutes and then applying a close-range finish.

Watford’s season may be defined in the next 15 days. Sheffield United loom a week today, and eight days later comes a daunting trip to Elland Road. The Leeds manager Kevin Blackwell was in attendance here and Spring’s display made it easy to understand why United insisted on a clause preventing the midfielder from lining up for his new team in what will be a vital fixture.

Now we shouldn’t become blasé about this great form, we can be fairly sure that Boothroyd will not allow any of the players to get complacent and the build up to this game against Crewe was given the full “our most important game” treatment, which sometimes comes over as a manager trying to convince himself as much as anyone else. Not our Aidy.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2006-01-28

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/28-january-2006/

14th January 2006-Championship, Watford 1 Stoke City 0

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