DESPONDENT Various (so called?) fans of various clubs at various times have come out with “I am not going to watch that rubbish again whilst x is in charge” and “I am not going to give our bloody owners any of my money, I’m boycotting until they’re gone.” I’ve never reached that stage and doubt  [ more ]

AFC Wimbledon 2 Oxford United 1 I usually spend a bit of time drafting a structure of sorts before I put together a Fan’s View but I’m quite disinclined here to bother with meaningful planning because that will fit in neatly with Oxford United as things currently stand both on and off the field. It’s  [ more ]

New Majority Shareholder and Chairman To date I’ve made very little comment on the issue of ownership of Oxford United FC. Firstly I didn’t think I was well enough informed to add any value to the debate, although plenty did by just relying on rumour, guesswork, disgusting language, disrespect and worse. Others will have been  [ more ]

Oxford United 0 Plymouth Argyle 1 Time yet to all hold our heads? Photo, Simon Jaggs Following the Rotherham defeat there was something of a split in the fan base – not that we were ever one unified body of thought – between those who said relegation is now a serious possibility and the other  [ more ]

Rotherham United 3 Oxford United 1 My trip to South Yorkshire started at 8:30 as I had a lift with someone who’d arranged various business meetings on the route up north. It wasn’t quite bring an old git football fan to work day though which meant my longest wait was a couple of hours in  [ more ]

Oxford United 1 Bristol Rovers 2 Photo, Simon Jaggs I’m regularly asked how I think we’ll do in the next match. Erring on the side of caution, I’m usually very non-committal, giving a wide ranging answer. On this I was only prepared to declare that we’d be better than we had been against Bury but  [ more ]

PEP OUT I’ve not written a Fan’s View since the Bury debacle and I went to press a day before Radio Oxford told me the news that Oxford United were looking for a new manager for the second time in seven months. My initial reaction was one of total surprise but on reflection there’s sound  [ more ]

Pre- match thoughts on our opponents Pre-season Bury splashed the cash. We’d supposedly offered Chris Maguire a good deal but Bury bettered it. They brought in Jermaine Beckford and plenty of others. I don’t rate Lee Clark as a manager and doubted he would get the best out of Maguire. Clark was sacked on 30  [ more ]

Checkatrade In stark contrast to the Carabao and FA cups where we stayed rooted to the starting blocks, we just keep on running and running in this bloody trophy. Still, there is monetary reward and at the end of it the supposed glory of playing at Wembley in a major final. Did I say major?  [ more ]

Progress or not since our trip to the seaside We played Blackpool at Bloomfield Road back in mid-September. It was then our worst performance of the season and resulted in our second league defeat. We played in that awful black kit (*). Our previously strong defence was poor and that was with Curtis Nelson in  [ more ]