FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.4: COVENTRY AWAY Our opponents The nightmare Sisu years are now behind the Sky Blues. Doug King, a local businessman, took full control of the club in 2022 and is now Chairman. He is the CEO of Yelo Enterprises, a Stratford-upon-Avon based company which specialises in UK food and the agricultural  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.3: CARABAO CUP ROUND ONE How important is this cup to us as a Championship club? It is difficult to gauge how much prestige this competition carries in 2024. More or less than when we had that scarcely believable day at Wembley 38 years ago? Without giving it much thought I  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.2: NORWICH AT HOME & MORE OUR OPPONENTS Norwich were in the top division of English football for six years before the Premier League was created in 1992/93. They finished third in that inaugural season. In the 32 years since it began the Canaries have spent ten in the top league,  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.1: TWENTY FIVE YEARS AND COUNTING A quarter of a century is a significant chunk of anyone’s life. It is twenty five years and counting since our football club kicked a ball in the second tier of English football. That day was Sunday 9 May 1999 when we hammered Stockport at  [ more ]

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 ]