While Oxford United men’s first team’s FA Cup dreams went up in smoke at home to Sunderland on Sunday, the club’s other two major sides are still involved in their respective FA Cups. The Under 18s On Wednesday evening (6pm) the U18s have a home fifth round tie against Manchester United at the Kassam Stadium,  [ more ]

Will Lankshear puts the ball in the net but the whistle had already gone (Photo: Steve Daniels) Well that was better. Not perfect by any means, but following the shitshow of Norwich on Tuesday, this was much more like it: players in their correct positions, a back four at home, and plenty of individual and  [ more ]

It’s the FA Cup fourth round this weekend, and United’s reward for scraping past MK Franchise in the previous round is a home tie against Premier League Sunderland. Oxford fans may remember the last time we played the Rokerites as it ended in a 2-0 win for the U’s last season that confirmed we would  [ more ]

Mohamed Touré takes advantage and gives Norwich an early lead (Photo: Steve Daniels) Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. What a shitshow, from start to finish. Or rather, a lot of shit but little to show. I could tell it wasn’t going to be a great evening right from the off, when the  [ more ]

Richard Hill celebrates his goal in a 3-0 win over Norwich, October 1987 Tuesday night is the game that should have been played (should have will be played?) this weekend but has been rearranged because of the small matter of Sunderland in the FA Cup. This could be beneficial to the U’s, as it gives  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW  2025/26 – COVENTRY AWAY This isn’t an away day that lends itself to a pub crawl taking in three or four establishments pre-match due to the location of the now called Coventry Building Society Arena. No matter though as the Byatt’s Brewery Brewhouse bar served its purpose as it always does. Unsurprisingly the  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW  2025/26 – SHEFFIELD UNITED AWAY But First The frustration with the process for purchasing tickets to watch OUFC never seems to go away. As an away club member I waited until after midday on 26 Jan to purchase my tickets for Middlesbrough and Stoke and whilst I was at it wanted to make  [ more ]

Daniel Crowley scores a consolation goal at Coventry in October 2016 United travel to Coventry City this Saturday hoping for a reversal of fortunes following two defeats on the spin against Birmingham City and Sheffield United. Still, Coventry will be a breeze. They’re top of the Championship (on goal difference to Middlesbrough), so let’s do  [ more ]

Bramall Lane, where we hope a football match will break out on Tuesday (Photo by Arne Müseler from Salzburg) We’ve already previewed the trip to Sheffield United HERE so we won’t bother going over it again. Suffice to say that a few things have changed since that originally scheduled trip at the start of the  [ more ]

Jamie Cumming is beaten by a Myles Peart-Harris deflection for Birmingham’s first goal (Photo: Steve Daniels) Well, as honeymoon periods go, that one was fairly brief. It may have come as something as a shock to Matt Bloomfield to see what it looks like for an Oxford side to revert to type, and he may  [ more ]