FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – No.44 – PLYMOUTH AWAY PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 1 OXFORD UNITED 0 I’m hoping to make this a brief one as I have little time to bang it out between returning from Devon and heading to Morecambe. Truth be told though I usually fail when trying such things but I’ll give it a  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.43 IPSWICH AT HOME Prior to the game There’s been some insightful analysis posted on social media playing around with data leading to predictions as to where we’ll end up when all 24 teams have played all their 46 games. What will be will be but I couldn’t resist having a  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – No.42 SHREWSBURY TOWN 1 OXFORD UNITED 2 They’ll need more than a drum for that The world is a pretty shitty place right now with Putin foisting evil beyond description on innocent human beings. Then there’s covid which very much has not gone away. All this getting back to normal talk,  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.41 OXFORD UNITED 4 BURTON ALBION 1 When I raise in debate that our defending is not at the standard of the best in L1 I think some people just have me down as a moaner. They look no further than the happiness we get from currently being served some of  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.40 PORTSMOUTH 3 OXFORD UNITED 2 Portsmouth is not a place where I’ve ever visited a handful of pubs before a match. I’d not realised before this trip that there are so many real ale pubs within two and a half miles of Fratton Park. The Good Beer Guide (GBG) lists  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.39 OXFORD UNITED 4 CAMBRIDGE UNITED 2 I knew there would be a decent turnout for Joey but had not quite appreciated how many and what it would actually feel like. This was our fourth home league game in a row where the crowd has been over 10k. (Has that ever  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.38 CREWE ALEXANDRA 0 OXFORD UNITED 1 Crewe being bottom of the league with no points from their last six games in which they’d scored just twice worried me, as such things do. But I wasn’t worried enough not to lump just over twenty quid of an already well expanded left  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.37 CHARLTON AWAY But first a few things – making this a very long one. Possibly the longest ever. But why not in the circumstances? Defensive stats It appears plain to see for fans, management, players and owners alike that defensively we are currently falling some way short of the standard  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.36 BOLTON AT HOME Our opponents After a run of four straight defeats Bolton have won five and drawn one of their last six league games scoring 14 in the process and conceding just two goals. They’re clearly better than us at keeping clean sheets. In the “big” stakes the Wanderers  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.35 ACCRINGTON AWAY Our opponents Every time we play Accrington I and many others come up with much admired small club, going about things the right way and punching above their weight. They must be getting a bit tired of that by now but it is not meant in a patronising  [ more ]