SEASON 2020/21 No.27: ROCHDALE AWAY Before Covid I’d guess we’d have had 200 to 300 followers at Spotland even on a cold January night but all we can do now to sustain us in the world as it is in 2021 is look back on how it used to be and with an optimistic head  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 No.26: BRISTOL ROVERS AT HOME The match of the month in the January edition of When Saturday Comes was Fleetwood 5 Plymouth 1. This is the final paragraph: “The tragedy of this time is that, bar the chosen 80, others could only watch this sunny, entertaining afternoon from behind screens. The conviviality and  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – No.25 BURTON ALBION 1 OXFORD UNITED 5 All away trips currently denied us will be missed by the resolute few hundred who used to be there every game come rain, shine or, as in the final stages at the Pirelli Stadium on Saturday, snow. Some though will be mourned more than others.  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – No.24: PLYMOUTH AWAY Live football provides many things that we are now, rightly, having to forego and the importance of each missing piece of the old match day experience will vary from supporter to supporter. The majority of our home fans, like at all clubs, don’t travel to away games and for  [ more ]

(FESTIVE) SEASON 2020/21 – No.23: COVID / BALLOT / WIMBLEDON AT HOME Firstly in these most challenging of times I hope everyone connected with OUFC had the most pleasant of Christmas Days possible in the circumstances and that 2021 eventually brings positive cheer as far as our football club is concerned. That sentiment naturally extends  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.22 Oxford United 4 Northampton Town 0 There’s plenty more than ninety plus minutes of football that could be discussed, but given time is at a premium in this pre-Christmas period, shopping, putting decorations up and watching wall to wall football on Sky and Amazon Prime, best to stick with  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.21: BLACKPOOL AWAY But first Papa John’s Perhaps, just perhaps, my attitude to this competition is changing very slightly but nowhere near enough yet to attend in person even though until last Saturday I’ve been starved of the real thing over the last nine months. Also as I was lucky  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.20: HULL AT HOME Fans are back but it was never going to be a case of everything is tickety-boo Whatever method the club chose to make tickets available to fans for this game was never going to please everyone. Whilst acknowledging that these are the most difficult and challenging  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.19: IPSWICH AT HOME Pre Ipswich or more truthfully post Swindon After our second half horror show on Saturday I just wanted to forget it ever happened that’s why I banged out a short FV in double quick time. Thing is though it can’t be forgotten however hard I try.  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.18: Oxford United 1 Swindon Town 2 Whether sat in one’s living room or the stands this is such an emotive fixture that to come up with rational analysis is much more difficult than normal. I will though give it a go. Overall I thought we deserved at least a  [ more ]