The whole second half felt like Norwich wanted to lose. It was becoming so easy that the goal felt more of a relief. Took them to around the 89th minute before they put in any effort. David Wagner is hopeless, I can't believe they hired him.
Just saw an angle on the extended highlights that wasn't on the short ones and yep, miles over the line!
I was thinking how well the officials did yesterday. That winning goal could easily been flagged offside. Usually we have a Sunday league dad running the line, but this one was part of Simon Hooper’s EPL harem. So, the lino did well to spot Asprilla was onside when he reacted to the rebound. Credit where it’s due. Hooper is one of the elite officials, and even though he’s had his issues at the top level, he looked a cut above in the Championship and ran the game well.
With regard to the support at 0-2, compadre, did you shout any abuse? Did you witness the discontent? You could see the negative effect it was having on the players, who were starting doing desperate diving in challenges and giving away a series of dangerous, arse clenching, free kicks directed towards an already rattled Hamer. It was anti-support. Counter support. Helping the opponent. Bitter and ugly. Sinister and anti-Hornet. Better to be cheering Norwich than that. Then the irony after the two quick goals of the turnaround. The cheers! The celebrations! We are the greatest team the world has ever seen. Fickle flip floppers, degenerates, delinquents and badly educated. That, sadly, is the truth of some of these so-called Watford supporter slackers of today. They need to smarten themselves up a bit. Show a bit of support. Not lose heart so easily and turn against the team. Bath, haircut and a bit of national service would do most of 'em the world of good.
Got dazzled by the floodlight reflection off his sweaty bald dome once or twice, but generally agree he did well. Towards the end of the 2nd half, the microphones clearly picked him up speaking to a Narch defender about a foul that had gone their way. He was being tough with him. He said something along the lines of "No! He turned you and....". I couldn't hear the rest. After the commentators apologised for the fruity language, so that left me wondering what the full exchange was. Did anyone pick up any more? Do refs swear at the players?
Yeah he did well. On initial viewing I thought the Livermore yellow was harsh and their bloke had bought it, but in fairness to Hooper it was late and studs down onto the top of the boot and so a nailed on booking. Plus when Asprilla took a tumble (dive?) in the second half he was in a great position to see there'd be little to no contact by being well up with play.
He seemed to start the game forgetting he was in the championship, giving free kicks anytime someone flopped to the floor. As the game went on he seemed to relax and let the game flow a bit more.
I thought Bayo's tactic near the end was very clever. Ball comes over un expectantly - nobody close by... Oh crikey... Oh dear...might miss a sitter... . No no stay cool and make out you're miles offside... Plonker.
When was the last time we won a game after conceding a goal? I think you’ll be surprised with the answer.
All five of our previous wins this season came with clean sheets, as did the final three wins of last season too. Our last victory without one was the 3-2 v West Brom in February. In fact, until last night, that was our only victory out of our last 12 in which we hadn’t kept a clean sheet. Our last win after conceding first was at Cardiff November 2022. And as others have already said here, the last league win from 0-2 was the 4-2 at the London Stadium.
Yep, you got it. Two managers ago under Bilic, was the last time we won a game without a clean sheet, before last night. For an extra bonus, the last time we won at home after being 0-2, was that amazing 7-2 win against Blackpool.
Was a really similar game to West Ham. People seriously considering heading to the exits after Payet made us look like right mugs. They thought they'd won it in the first half. Goal out of nowhere and West Ham collapsed. Great day out!
Oddly enough, we couldn't hit a barn door that first half either. Dreadful. Blackpool were the whipping boys and they whipped us big time for 45 mins. I remember sitting next to a bloke with his girlfriend and he kept saying to her "can we go home?" He left just before the second half started, she was pretty upset so I starting casually chatting to her to make her feel a bit better as much as I could. We exchanged numbers at FT, and are still good friends to this day. True Story.
Gutted I wasn’t in Rookery to see that . Opted for the cosy option at home with a bottle of red which was downed in first 30 minutes to numb the pain, but then had to get another one out to celebrate
I thought the Asprilla goal was offiside after seeing replays. Like I give a fucj it wasn't given mind!
Sitting with the other Trappists at the Vicarage Road end of the UGT, all I could hear for the first 15 mins was the Norwich fans singing "there's only one team in yellow" (correct) and, to VI, "you're just a **** David Wagner" (incorrect). After Watford's first goal I heard a lot of Watford singing though. Given the transformation after Hwang went off, I can't believe that any moans had a negative effect on our players. Anyway moans were well deserved. I was (silently) fuming that this was one of the worst Watford displays I'd ever seen -every pass went to an opponent or into touch, every tackle was mis-timed, marking was non-existent. And then everything changed. No wonder our fans were exultant.
That game was hilarious. West Ham fans started the game by getting into our end and fighting our fans but by the end of it they’d turned on themselves and started fighting each other. Glorious scenes
