FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.28 – FA CUP ROUND THREE  OXFORD UNITED 0 ARSENAL 3 Must be a big game, the street sellers have turned up Given our mediocre league form I’d found it hard to get too excited about the visit of the Gunners to our three sided rented home but with a couple  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.27 – EXETER AT HOME Form We’d already proven twice this season that we can beat the Grecians, putting four goals past them on both occasions. The most recent meeting being at the Kassam five weeks ago in the FA Cup which set us up for Arsenal. The win at their  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.26 – CHARLTON AT HOME Form After we’d drawn at the Valley on 1 October the Addicks got another draw at Lincoln then went on a three game winning streak. That put them up to seventh in the table on 22 points. At the time we were 19th with just 14  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 2022/23 – No.25 IPSWICH TOWN 3 OXFORD UNITED 0 This being the busy festive season I’ve little time for digging around in accounts and researching the recent history of our opponents so guess work based on possibly faulty memory and cursory glances at information it is then. Ipswich are yet another “big” club  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.24: SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY AWAY Get ready, I think it’s going to be a long one. Our opponents Wednesday are one of the many “big” clubs that now reside in League One. The mix of such clubs and the minnows like Accrington, Morecambe and Forest Green makes tier three such a fascinating  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.23: FA CUP ROUND TWO OXFORD UNITED 4 EXETER CITY 1 We all know that the FA Cup isn’t what it was but for me it is still very much a competition that should be savoured and gone for 100%. Obviously don’t risk injured / unfit players but pick the strongest  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.22: FOREST GREEN ROVERS AT HOME Our opponents Given the size of the town – Nailsworth with a population of under 6k – where they are based, what FGR have achieved is quite remarkable. (Whoops gone all David Coleman there). Until 82/83 they’d not played higher than the Hellenic League then  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.21: FA CUP ROUND ONE Magic of the cup – is there any left? So it’s that time of the year again when the magic of the FA Cup is supposed to weave its way through the lower echelons of the EFL and upper echelons of the non-league game. Except it’s  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.19: PORT VALE AT HOME Our opponents Vale had six years in what is now the Championship until they got relegated at the end of the 1999/2000 season and have never been back. Since then they’ve been in L1 on thirteen occasions and L2 ten times. This is their first season  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.19: SHREWSBURY AWAY Our opponents It’s easy to forget that Shrewsbury spent a season in the Conference back in 2003-04 but didn’t hang about in winning promotion back at the first time of asking. They beat Aldershot in the play-off final on penalties at the Millennium Stadium. They’ve put that minor  [ more ]