SEASON 2020/21 No.31 – WIGAN AT HOME Our opponents The last time Wigan visited the Kassam, the day before Christmas Eve in 2017, they humiliated us beyond understanding to the tune of 7-0. There were no lessons learned for Pep Clotet in the manner of a Ralph Hasenhüttl after Leicester put nine past his Saints  [ more ]

BRISTOL ROVERS 0 OXFORD UNITED 2 This was back to playing a team in the mid to lower reaches of the table and we know full well from our winning run that we can beat such sides. Although nothing can be taken for granted it was normal service resumed here result wise but the performance  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 No.29: DONCASTER AWAY Strengthening your hand Every season during the January transfer window and the longer summer one come to that, some fans end up going into a frenzy for no logical reason. Of course there is interest in who might be coming in and who is going out but why on earth  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 No.28: FLEETWOOD AT HOME I’ve written before about the bogey team thing, a team that always does well against another and probably will do again. Logically it makes no sense whatsoever, nor is it always applied consistently across the football landscape. Manchester City will almost always beat a team like West Brom in  [ more ]

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 ]