FAN’S VIEW  2026/27  – NOTTS COUNTY AWAY Pre-match musings What a strange season this one has been so far. Our league campaign kicked off on 15 August and nearly two months later we’d ended up playing fewer games than any other team in L1. Table toppers Plymouth have played 50% more than our six, nine  [ more ]

Shaunna Jenkins heads United into the lead (Photo: Darrell Fisher) It’s not often that the women’s team takes the plaudits over the men’s side, especially with the men’s team being in such good form, but it’s only right to acknowledge the achievements of the women so far this season, following this weekend’s derby win over  [ more ]

Meadow Lane as it looked when United last visited in January 2016 It’s been over ten years since Oxford and Notts County last met, with both teams travelling in different directions only to end up in the same place. The sides’ first meeting took place in Nottingham in the Fourth Division, in October 1964, with  [ more ]

Siriki Dembele celebrates giving United the lead (Photo: Steve Daniels) As that great philosopher Antonio Banderas once said, ‘Expectation is the mother of all frustration’. And so it proved on Saturday. I think that many Oxford fans, while anticipating a difficult game against a physical Cambridge side, also had the expectation that United’s winning run  [ more ]

Eddie Odhiambo scores against Cambridge in February 2007 It’s sixth against fourth in League One this Saturday as Cambridge United make their way to the Kassam Stadium for what will hopefully be Oxford’s third successive win. Cambridge, of course, have had a great start to the season following their promotion from League Two last time  [ more ]

Siriki Dembélé smashes home the opener (photo: Steve Edmunds) If you’re the type of person that leaves a game with 15 minutes to go, you would probably expect to get home and, on checking the score, see a goalless draw flash up, or maybe even a single goal defeat for United. I very much doubt  [ more ]

James Henry on target against Burton in August 2018 It’s the 12th of September – that day I’ll always remember – when Oxford United welcome Burton Albion for just the U’s second home game of the season, thanks to the farcical postponements of the Reading game. A brief glance at the League One table so  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW  2026/27  – LEICESTER AWAY Before I get on to the Leicester game, I have to say what a sad day it was when we learned that Hughie Curran had died. I liked so many things about Hughie. Firstly that he played his first games proper at now defunct Third Lanark. He was a  [ more ]

The prolific Gary Smart in action at Filbert Street The third of three successive away fixtures is a second visit of the year to the Kingpower Stadium, where United will face a revitalised Leicester City side while still hoping to emulate last season’s 2-1 victory. This is just the second time that the U’s have  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW  2026/27  – HUDDERSFIELD AWAY I had intended to curb my instincts because I thought this FV by necessity was going to have to be a much shorter one but no, even though I had plenty of other things I should have been doing, I just couldn’t leave it alone. OUFC is in my  [ more ]