EFL / CARABAO CUP – ROUND ONE OXFORD UNITED 1 PETERBOROUGH UNITED 0 So which one is this then I’ve heard a few people ask. The regular change of sponsorship for all cup competitions every few years and the fact that the EFL name is attached to a cup and a trophy certainly causes confusion.  [ more ]

ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIVISION 1 OXFORD UNITED 1 PETERBOROUGH UNITED 0 For the first home game last season a few of us gathered in the city centre, had a drink or two, then walked along the river to Sandford then across to the stadium. As we did it again I suppose you could say we’ve  [ more ]

SUNDERLAND AWAY THE BUILD UP Five days to go Still no signings since Tariqe Fosu joined a month ago. So no centre forward. So no centre half. Whilst that remains the case I’d say we don’t have a strike force fit for purpose and likewise regarding the defence. That’s not meant as a criticism of  [ more ]

ANOTHER PRE-SEASON FAN’S VIEW Often when a season is about to begin or has just started there are fans who take to social media telling that they have not got into it all yet and can’t muster up any enthusiasm for what’s ahead. It may be that they’re into cricket or some other summer activity  [ more ]

PRE-SEASON 2019/20 Another close season that’s just disappeared The Champions League final (has there ever been a bigger anti-climax of a football match?) was a whole month after our last league fixture and then we had the Women’s World Cup where our gallant girls followed in the path trodden by their male counterparts in proving  [ more ]

Will Green offers his views on safe standing in British football and specifically at Oxford United

LUTON AWAY Luton Town are a football club that I think it is fair to say are generally not liked. In fact I would go as far as saying hated, and I don’t use that word lightly, after all football is a sport and life is too short but there’s no denying there’s a history  [ more ]

DONCASTER AT HOME Pre-match We’ve not been involved in a single league game this season that has been irrelevant regarding the outcome of automatic promotion/the fight for a play-off slot or battle against the dreaded drop. Quite amazing really with this being our penultimate fixture. The top five will remain the top five with any  [ more ]

SHREWSBURY TOWN 2 OXFORD UNITED 3 Sitting pretty on 56 points before this fixture, it was really easy as an Oxford fan to state that 50 points, which was the total our hosts had acquired, is bound to be enough to ensure survival. Naturally Shrews fans had a rather different idea. Bradford have gone but  [ more ]

OXFORD UNITED 2 CHARLTON ATHLETIC 1 There have been many dark periods this season. We lost the first four league games. In both September/October and December/January we had a spell where we acquired just two points from six games. The latter was ended by beating Pompey at the Kassam but we couldn’t follow that up  [ more ]