FAN’S VIEW 23/24 – NO.53: LEAGUE ONE PLAY-OFF FINAL FAVOURITES In the week leading up to Wembley a glance at bookmakers’ odds showed Bolton as strong favourites. Five times more likely to be playing in the Championship than us (4/9 them, 15/8 us). Favourites yes I get that given they finished third with 10 more  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 23/24 – NO.52: PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL PART 2 SEMI-FINAL SECOND LEG: PETERBOROUGH UNITED 1 OXFORD UNITED 1 Photo, Steve Daniels Days like this do not come around very often. A day of shredded nerves. A day of emotion that is hard to put into words. And at the end of the day it’s us,  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 23/24 – NO.51: PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL PART 1 (Photo, Steve Daniels) PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL FIRST LEG OXFORD UNITED 1 PETERBOROUGH UNITED 0 For this I got the bus into the city centre at about 15:30 with a mate, Ian, from Warrington who was stopping with us. I was after a couple of beers to steady  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 23/24 – NO.50: EXETER AWAY EXETER CITY 1 OXFORD UNITED 2 So here we are. Our season has been extended and that’s thanks to Des Buckingham and the players. No way did I think he would turn it around as we dropped away from the summit and often couldn’t even beat pretty poor  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 23/24 – NO.49: STEVENAGE AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 1 STEVENAGE 1 I’m starting to write this after the match Friday Night/ Saturday Morning, as sung by the Specials. By 5 o’clock on Saturday Night (Whigfield) there might be a very different slant. After this evening I can’t say I’m angry, just very deflated.  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 23/24 – NO.48: LINCOLN AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 0 LINCOLN CITY 1 In the post-match interview Greg Leigh talked of highs and lows and the sensible attitude of not getting carried away with either but let’s be honest what fan could not have been blown away by the way we hammered Peterborough? One  [ more ]

Fan’s View 23/24 – No.47: Peterborough at home Photo, Steve Daniels Oxford United 5 Peterborough United 0 “Unbelievable Jeff” “Football, bloody hell” and any other such exclamations. Throw them all in for this one. I absolutely can’t believe this happened. Quite possibly my favourite day watching my football team in our three sided stadium in  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 23/24 – NO.46: BURTON AWAY BURTON ALBION 0 OXFORD UNITED 4 I was fairly confident before this one but nowhere near as optimistic as I was ahead of the Fleetwood game the previous week. Turns out this current mindset is justified. Two four nil league victories on the spin for the first time  [ more ]

Fan’s View 23/24 – No.45: Fleetwood at home Oxford United 4 Fleetwood Town 0 My pre-match prediction was that we would win and win well. We did win. The score line says we won well and at times we did play very well. However, this performance was far from flawless. Good enough to beat the  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 23/24 – NO.44: SHREWSBURY AWAY SHREWSBURY TOWN 1 OXFORD UNITED 1 Last season was one to forget. (Understatement or what given the investment in the playing budget?) A massive under achievement. Survival only ensured on the second last day of the season when we hit the pathetic total of 47 points. There was  [ more ]