{"id":480870,"date":"2026-03-17T19:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:34:12","slug":"if-max-dowman-cant-beat-me-nobody-will-says-ex-ipswich-town-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480870\/","title":{"rendered":"If Max Dowman can&#8217;t beat me, nobody will, says ex-Ipswich Town star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former professional footballer who has held the record as the youngest goalscorer in the top flight of English football for 42 years says nobody is likely to knock him off his spot soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jason Dozzell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20jv13el1qo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored for Ipswich Town in the First Division<\/a> in 1984, aged 16 years and 57 days old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/videos\/cd70wq4q0pjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Dowman became the youngest goalscorer in the Premier League<\/a> era, but aged 16 years and 73 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He netted with the final kick of the game in a 2-0 home victory over Everton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dozzell said Dowman, who is from Billericay in Essex, had impressed him more than any other player of that age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow Essex news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjdqpb\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCEssex\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook, external<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcessex\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCessex\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former professional footballer who has held the record as the youngest goalscorer in the top flight of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}