SUNDERLAND AT HOME The visitors are up for sale It was only back in May 2018 that Stuart Donald with his “business partner” Charlie Methven and some backing from Juan Sartori took over Sunderland AFC. There were a number of Oxford fans who were critical of Darryl Eales for not selling OUFC to this lot  [ more ]

BURTON AWAY Before our trip to the Pirelli Stadium the current form of L1 sides over the last few games was: POINTS WON IN LAST FIVE GAMES LEAGUE POSITION Peterborough 15 3 Portsmouth 15 5 Rotherham 12 1 Coventry 11 4 Sunderland 10 6 Wycombe 9 2 Fleetwood 9 9 Doncaster 8 8 Gillingham 7  [ more ]

PETERBOROUGH UNITED 4 OXFORD UNITED 0 Every match is to some extent informative but some much more so than others. The outcome of this fixture was going to tell us much. I travelled fearing that we could get beaten by a couple of goals, or possibly more, but also carried reasonable hope that this would  [ more ]

F.A. CUP 4th ROUND REPLAY OXFORD UNITED 2 NEWCASTLE UNITED 3 (aet) At least it is a leap year meaning that February contains 29 days in 2020 but it is still the shortest month and OUFC have to cram in nine fixtures during this period. And to think that some Premier League teams bleat on  [ more ]

OXFORD UNITED 2 BLACKPOOL 1 These were two teams bringing poor league form to this fixture. We’d not yet picked up three points in 2020 taking just two from 12 available. Blackpool’s record was much worse with two draws and five losses from their previous seven league games although each of those defeats was by  [ more ]

Will Green explains why Newcastle v Oxford United was anything but a big day out…

F.A. CUP ROUND 4 NEWCASTLE UNITED 0 OXFORD UNITED 0 On 4 Jan 2003 we lost 2-0 to Arsenal at Highbury in the third round of the F.A. Cup and with each passing year since then I’ve more and more thought we really could do with another away FA Cup tie against a big Premier  [ more ]

GILLINGHAM 1 OXFORD UNITED 1  Regular football fans know the received wisdom is that in most circumstances an away point is a decent return. Therefore given that the Gills are on a run of fine home form we should be quite happy to have come away with a draw. For a number of reasons though  [ more ]

IPSWICH AT HOME The opposition Ipswich are a team we have not played this century. Our last encounter was on the 20 Feb 1999 in a league game at Portman Road when we lost 2-1. Our goal scorer was Christophe Remy and manager Malcolm Shotton, two very different characters. Football has changed a lot since  [ more ]

ROTHERHAM AT HOME Fortunes since we met in October When we visited the New York Stadium on 19 Oct we were 8th on 19 points having played 13 games. The Millers were 2 places lower but with only one point less and had played 2 games fewer. Our win put us up to 5th and  [ more ]