So, United’s pre-season campaign concluded this afternoon with a win over Malaga. Lovely town and a decent following too. From the three home games (didn’t go to Mansfield or Indonesia so won’t comment) I think we saw a decent progression. From a flat, disappointing performance against Bristol Rovers, to a far better but still flawed  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 2025/26 – PORT FC by Mark Gelder Oxford United were comfortably through to the Sunday final of Piala Presiden 2025, the President’s cup.  Our opponents were to be Thai team Port FC, the other invited side in the tournament.   I had now moved from my hotel near the station to the Mercure hotel  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 2025/26 – No.2: AREMA FC by MARK GELDER Our second match was against Arema FC, who finished 10th of 18 in the league last season, and were in the President’s Cup as defending champions.   After a couple of days in Jakarta, I headed across to Bandung on the Tuesday, some 80 miles south-west,  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 2025/26 – No.1: INDONESIA ALL STARS For many years now whenever each season ends, I question whether I’ll carry on writing FVs for the following campaign. That’s mostly down to how much time it takes. I’ve always, up until now, come back somewhat refreshed and gone for it again. However last season I  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.50: SWANSEA AWAY SWANSEA CITY 3 OXFORD UNITED 3 Well, here we are again at the end of another season. They come and go so quickly. This one seems to have been relentless, yet we’ve only played 49 competitive games (a nice round 50 FVs because I covered the friendly v  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.49: SUNDERLAND AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 2 SUNDERLAND 0 So we’ve made it to safety with one game to go. It’s been emotional. Saturday was very emotional. There have been times this season when we’ve played badly enough to deserve to go down but we only glance relatively briefly at how  [ more ]

CARDIFF CITY 1 OXFORD UNITED 1 The Match Most important game of the season. Worst performance of the season. Best goal of the season. You thought the last FV was a short one, well I could quite easily leave this one as the shortest ever and stop now but I’m not going to because it  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.47: LEEDS AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 0 LEEDS UNITED 1 I know you won’t believe me but this is going to be a very short FV, due to time constraints and the fact that I don’t think there’s a huge amount to be said about the game. For some time I’d  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.46: SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY AWAY SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 0 OXFORD UNITED 1 Our second away win of the season could not have arrived in timelier fashion. Boy did we need this after the setback in midweek. There wasn’t much to choose between the two sides but I’m of the opinion that we were  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.45: QPR AT HOME Tuesday night’s results weren’t bad for us at all even though we ended up one point closer to the bottom three. Briefly the best odds around on us getting relegated lengthened from 7/2 to 9/2 but soon dropped back to 7/2 meaning money had been placed on  [ more ]