FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.29: FA CUP ROUND 3 EXETER AWAY EXETER CITY 3 OXFORD UNITED 1 I don’t think there’s any question that overall the FA Cup is not what it was. It may be the second most prestigious competition we play in but its status has declined massively with the ever growing financial  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.28: PRESTON AWAY If it wasn’t for football I would not have been sat in a house in Grimsargh from about quarter past 10 to quarter to 12 drinking beer and eating bacon sandwiches to die for. In fact I’d never heard of Grimsargh before. A mate’s daughter lives there. No  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.27: MILLWALL AWAY Over their previous nine games Millwall had collected just seven points. Exactly the same as us. There were only 14 goals in those games, Millwall scoring six and letting in eight. Only once did a side score more than once. That was Norwich getting two on Boxing Day.  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.26: PLYMOUTH AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 2 PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 0 “You’re getting sacked in the morning” sang the Oxford fans. The visitors from Devon joined in. The Oxford fans then delivered “Wayne Rooney, we want you to stay”. There was no repetition from the away section. Pre-match I’d asked a Plymouth  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.25: CARDIFF AT HOME A foggy afternoon OXFORD UNITED 3 CARDIFF CITY 2 For many years now a Boxing Day home fixture stood out because it was the day of the large attendance. Not so in 2024 now we’re in the Championship with almost every fixture at the Kassam being a  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.24: LEEDS AWAY DES’S DEPARTURE We’ve all had a bit more time to process this but that still doesn’t make it easy to understand exactly where we’re at right now. There’s no getting away from the fact that our current form has been shocking. One point from the last six games.  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.23: SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 1 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 3 The intention is to make to make this a short one. (No promises though). I’m finding it all very boring having to keep saying the same thing over and over. Lacking Championship quality as a team and individually. Playing too  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.22: QPR AWAY So no.22 is QPR not Argyle thanks to Darragh. I keep looking at the BBC league tables for current form and we’re consistently in the bottom three or four. Before this encounter reading up from the bottom of the form table over the last six games, points gained  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.21: MILLWALL AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 1 MILLWALL 1 The “commentator’s curse” has been around for years. No one seems to know who first coined this phrase. (Ironically it is also unknown who coined the phrase “to coin the phrase”).This curse kind of applies to anyone regularly giving a view on  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW: 24/25 – No.20: SHEFFIELD UNITED AWAY SHEFFIELD UNITED 3 OXFORD UNITED 0 There’s always that tiniest bit of hope. If there wasn’t what would be the point? But it was so slender that it was almost non-existent so something like this was totally what I expected to happen and to be honest beforehand  [ more ]