Tag Archives: Ipswich Town

22nd October 2005- Championship, Ipswich Town 0 Watford 1

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

BBC: Back to winning ways and deservedly so, Ipswich were awful, but credit to Watford who produced an excellent away performance.

BSAD: Last week, while filling in a questionnaire about Watford for a Sheffield Wednesday website, I was asked what sort of manager Aidy Boothroyd was, as the questioner admitted he knew little about our new manager. My first thought was simple…we’re only just finding out ourselves! From what we’ve learnt so far, he’s shown himself to be charismatic, bullish and he has the total support and the trust of his players, without which no manager can succeed. Crucially, he’s also won over the majority of fans. Aidy Boothroyd has a future in football management, that’s for certain, and hopefully, given time and proper support from our board of directors, he just might take us places.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2005-10-22

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/22-october-2005/

23rd October 2004- Championship, Watford 2 Ipswich Town 2

Persistence was everything here, when there seemed to be nothing much else to cling to. There’ll be talk of match-turning substitutions and heroic spirit, sure…but this wasn’t a comeback, not as such. Nothing changed. Rather, when it appeared that the cause was utterly hopeless, when we were two-nil down to a team that had gradually and increasingly out-classed us, when the ceaseless pelting rain seemed to sum up the afternoon, we just kept going. We kept our heads up, we kept our minds clear, and we kept going. Basic professionalism or pure faith, depending on whether you’re a romantic or not…but whatever, two-nil suddenly became two-two, with fifteen minutes still to play. We’d done nothing differently, really, but that was precisely the point.

http://watford.fcdb.info?s=33336&id=4623

27th September 2003- New Division One, Watford 1 Ipswich Town 2

Ipswich came back from a goal down to secure their first away win of the season at the expense of struggling Watford.

Here we are, then. Up to our necks in a swamp and sinking rapidly. You don’t need me to tell you want this result means, a ghastly defeat in a must-win fixture. And you don’t need me to tell you how it felt either, how the last thirty minutes were like watching your home being destroyed by a wrecking ball. And you certainly don’t need me to attempt to lift spirits with some kind of faux-chirpy, it’s-only-a-game, chin-up-son philosophy. No, you don’t need that.

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4567

14th December 2002- New Division One, Ipswich Town 4 Watford 2

Programme image courtesy of Matt Hall

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

BSAD: Of all the admirable features of Ray Lewington’s reign thus far, the ability to send the team out with their minds fixed on the task has been among the most prominent – so often, we appeared ill-prepared and easily surprised last season; so rarely, this. Here, we were clearly wary of Ipswich for five minutes, and understandably so. For another ten, we asserted ourselves boldly, beginning to break up their passing movements and build towards positive moments in the other half, and Allan Nielsen and Stephen Glass both tried the luck from decent shooting positions. Having been convinced of Ipswich’s invulnerability by their startlingly effective display at Vicarage Road, we were beginning to make them look nervous. And we should’ve scored. You think of that moment as the scoreboard clock reaches zero and a minute of injury time begins. Should’ve, should’ve, should’ve.

Sunday Telegraph, 15 Dec 2002

17th November 2002- New Division One, Watford 0 Ipswich Town 2

Goals from Alun Armstrong and Jamie Clapham within 12 minutes of the restart gave Ipswich a well-earned victory over play-off chasing Watford.

Rituals are very important to the superstitious football fan, a cornerstone of the build-up to any game. Having a match put back to a Sunday to accommodate your opponents’ holiday plans may threaten to scupper these routines, but they’re still pursued if more by dint of habit than in honest belief that they will influence a game’s outcome.

http://watford.fcdb.info?s=37924&id=4525

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2002-11-17

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/17-november-2002/

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

Programme images courtesy of Matt Hall

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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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