Oxford United 0 Fleetwood Town 1 Pre-match thinking Having finished 4th last season and seemingly having strengthened for this campaign, I mistakenly thought from the odds available back in August that they were a very good bet for promotion. That’s not how it played out. On January 13 they were 11th – one place below  [ more ]

OXFORD UNITED 0 OLDHAM ATHLETIC 0 Wonder what these German lads made of the game. Some Saturdays I leap out of bed with a spring in my step because it’s football day. Here though I just wanted to pull the covers over my head and not face another trip to the Kassam Stadium such has  [ more ]

Shrewsbury Town 3 Oxford United 2   After a win and/or impressive performance I feel enthused to bang out a Fan’s View. After each horrendous defeat (and there have been a lot to choose from this season) spewing out words in anger acts as a necessary safety valve. This FV falls into neither of these  [ more ]

OXFORD UNITED 1 SCUNTHORPE UNITED 1 In front of the sky cameras again for another silly kick-off time. Apparently I know the camera man’s brother.  What an utterly welcome point this was. Not because it is, hopefully, one more in our slow crawl towards safety, but due to the fact that our first half performance  [ more ]

KARL ROBINSON It can’t be denied that the wait for a permanent replacement for Pep Clotet dragged on and on but I wasn’t one of those who went into melt-down claiming that we were a laughing stock. Much better to get the right man in than appoint someone with undue haste. Some seemed to go  [ more ]

DESPONDENT Various (so called?) fans of various clubs at various times have come out with “I am not going to watch that rubbish again whilst x is in charge” and “I am not going to give our bloody owners any of my money, I’m boycotting until they’re gone.” I’ve never reached that stage and doubt  [ more ]

AFC Wimbledon 2 Oxford United 1 I usually spend a bit of time drafting a structure of sorts before I put together a Fan’s View but I’m quite disinclined here to bother with meaningful planning because that will fit in neatly with Oxford United as things currently stand both on and off the field. It’s  [ more ]

New Majority Shareholder and Chairman To date I’ve made very little comment on the issue of ownership of Oxford United FC. Firstly I didn’t think I was well enough informed to add any value to the debate, although plenty did by just relying on rumour, guesswork, disgusting language, disrespect and worse. Others will have been  [ more ]

Oxford United 0 Plymouth Argyle 1 Time yet to all hold our heads? Photo, Simon Jaggs Following the Rotherham defeat there was something of a split in the fan base – not that we were ever one unified body of thought – between those who said relegation is now a serious possibility and the other  [ more ]

Rotherham United 3 Oxford United 1 My trip to South Yorkshire started at 8:30 as I had a lift with someone who’d arranged various business meetings on the route up north. It wasn’t quite bring an old git football fan to work day though which meant my longest wait was a couple of hours in  [ more ]