Tag: #Wattosweekly

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  March 17, 2022Posts

  Blues last two games summed up in a few words “Good, Bad and downright Ugly”

  Lee’s usual stance is to look for positives however few, point out the short-comings and always complement the effort. The performance on Tuesday was such that positives were impossible to recall and more depressing the effort was not mentioned.  The Boss for whom I, and most Blues supporters have complete faith looked a tired and broken man. His answers were evasive and he was unable to explain what had gone on the previous 98 minutes. Zero shots on target and goals conceded that would have embarrassed to a Pub Team’s 2nd XI.

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  March 10, 2022Posts

  Birmingham 8 Bristol 2 and 1 draw !!

  Avid readers of this column will no doubt recall that I said that Bristol City’s Ashton Gate had been a happy hunting ground for the Boys in Blue over recent years and expected a decent result. As that other renown Warwickshire literary giant might have said “Beware the Ides of March!”. It’s amazing that Blues seasons, good bad or indifferent, dip in January and February only to revive in the Windy month.

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  March 4, 2022Posts

  Injuries before kick off, defenders dropping like fly’s and 12 tennis balls

  When you settle down in your seat and before you have drunk your Bovril, you find one of your players has already gone down injured, you know its not your team’s day. Add to that its your most in-form striker and you don’t need my 62 years of watching the Boys in Blue to believe that your journey to St Andrews may have been a waste of time.

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  February 24, 2022Posts

  No defence but scoring for fun and an inspired keeper

  A couple of weeks ago watching the Peterborough v Reading relegation battle at London Road my attention was attracted by the six-foot plus 19 years old keeper on loan from Arsenal. He virtually kept the Posh at bay on his own. Inevitably he was pretty much an impassible obstruction to Blues who dominated the game at Reading last night. Several point-blank stops frustrated Lee Bowyer’s men and it was ironic that our goal eventually was an O.g. Hein reminded me of Jack Butland and already has 13 caps

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  February 17, 2022Posts

  From ranting about the football to shouting with pride

  Those who read my rant from last week which painted a pretty chaotic situation at B9 might be smiling at what happened at the weekend. I know I am. Those players and management who managed to come up with a three-nil victory over play off chasing Luton, in spite of our dour situation, were magnificent. An exciting front line all netted and although having only one defender in a recognized position kept a clean sheet.

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  February 11, 2022Posts

  BLUES RING THE CHANGES AND ITS GOALS, GOALS, GOALS

  When we were approaching the transfer window the cry was to improve our firepower and add a bit of guile to the midfield. So, the guy in charge, Craig Gardener, set about doing just that. In came Lyle Taylor, Juninho Bacuna, Onel Hernandez and Taylor Richards. Fantastic signings are they not? Richards of course we signed injured and got Covid as soon as he stepped through the door. If he actually ever did step through the door.

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  February 4, 2022Posts

  3 Offside and a High Boot, that’s the name of Watto’s next book

  Derby 2 Birmingham 2. Be honest prior to the game would that not have been an acceptable result? For 70 minutes the fact we played Derby off the park so much that the Sky-Sports Wayne Rooney love-in were coughing and spluttering onto their Ram shaped scripts. Wasn’t that a joy to behold after what we have been served up in recent weeks?

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  January 28, 2022Posts

  From Fairs cup to Unfair comments

  Well, it’s been quite a week since I last put my fingers to the key boards. It would be nice to start with the three games we played, the mixed fortunes and the wonderful protests which have seen our plight reach out to football’s communities around the world.

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  January 17, 2022Posts

  Changes, Twitter bans, support the cause and Back Lee

  I wanted to get my article in early this week as things are changing by the second. I also wanted to wait until the Preston result was known. Things always seem different after a decent performance. Last week’s farce against Plymouth ignited the sudden movement against our owners. They and Boris Johnson will be vying for the “who’s going first trophy!”(Have a couple of quid on Boris).

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  January 13, 2022Posts

  Lee Bowyer, do we back him or boot him?

  efore the Boss man of Tilton Talk show Craig Courtney, gets on the line and asks why am I suggesting the removal of Lee can I explain I am deliberately using the ‘eye catching’ headline that many of the bloggers and indeed major periodicals use. That is to show a tag line and have nothing in the article vaguely to do with that headline.