FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.34 PORTSMOUTH AT HOME Our opponents As is oft mentioned, there are quite a few “big” clubs playing in the third tier of English football, clubs who probably rightly think their natural resting place is somewhat higher up the pyramid. Debatable of course if there is such a thing as a  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.33 WIGAN AWAY (This time some football) The home side’s form The task ahead in this one could not be more marked than that which we faced three days earlier. Wigan are the best placed team in L1, one point behind top of the table Rotherham with two games in hand  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.32 GILLINGHAM AWAY The home side’s form Unlike the last couple of seasons we got away from the starting blocks quite quickly so I never had cause to pay much attention to the bottom of the League One table. I was aware that Doncaster were right down there but had no  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.30 WYCOMBE WANDERERS 2 OXFORD UNITED 0 Whenever I start a FV I have a rough idea what I am going to cover but I regularly end up meandering down a road or cul-de-sac that had not been in my initial thinking. Like last week I left the starting blocks with  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.31 OXFORD UNITED 3 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 2 This is a game that takes some getting your head around. With the visitors a goal up after seven minutes and playing some very impressive football as they bossed the game, with Barry Bannan pulling the strings, it didn’t seem at all likely that  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.29 LINCOLN CITY 2 OXFORD UNITED 0 Some football fans, possibly the more straight to the point types, or possibly the less articulate ones, have only two settings in response to being asked how their team played: “well” or “shit”. Sometimes even those who mull things over and come up with  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.28 Covid I’m bloody glad I don’t have to decide on the rules and protocols, be they practically enforceable or not, to be applied in the constant battle against Covid in an ever changing environment. The EFL has now binned match day Covid testing for players. That’s because when a number  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.27 GAME ON Every set of scheduled fixtures now has a large chunk bitten out of it. Tonight only four of the ten L1 matches that were due to take place will go ahead. This is all down to Covid isolation with at times “not enough fit players through injury” slung  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.26 OXFORD UNITED 2 WIGAN ATHLETIC 3 Please tell me why we played this game I suspect I may well have a very different take on this game to the majority of Oxford United supporters. I know for sure that I was getting angry with what was coming over on Radio  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.25 MK DONS 1 OXFORD UNITED 2 Milton Keynes is not a place that appeals to me and the MK Dons is a football team that I dislike intensely but to write a FV in at least a semi objective fashion I have to put prejudices aside and try and give  [ more ]