FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.50 Well done to this lot for travelling down OXFORD UNITED 1 DONCASTER ROVERS 1 Fifty, that’s a nice round number to finish with. Obviously I wish it had been more. Fifty three would have done nicely especially with a joyous positive write up in the last. But we knew before  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.49 ROTHERHAM UNITED 2 OXFORD UNITED 1 Oxford fans full of hope in the Bridge before the game  I set out for South Yorkshire in optimistic mood. I came away thinking that while we’d not been terrible, far from it, we’d not been anywhere near good enough to win this game  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.48 – MK AT HOME Three games to go This is the third last game of the regular season for both of us and our visitors will very much have belief that they can grab that second automatic promotion slot from Rotherham. Even if we still didn’t have the faintest of  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.47 – FLEETWOOD AWAY Get there early??? I know I do go on but once again I have to absolutely go into wtf mode. This from the official OUFC site under Fleetwood away tickets – “Supporters should enter the stadium via the turnstiles indicated on their ticket approximately 90 minutes before  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.46 – SUNDERLAND AT HOME Pre-match pondering? The enormity of this game goes without saying. It would have been a very big one anyway but after we’d failed at Plymouth and Morecambe on the back of just getting a point against Ipswich, many think if we don’t take maximum points from  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.45 Whatever I might have written below the “Forever” is the thing to cling on to. We’ll all be back on Saturday.  MORECAMBE 2 OXFORD UNITED 1 This time I really do intend to keep it brief. I don’t think what I’m seeing at the moment, particularly here, is worthy of  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – No.44 – PLYMOUTH AWAY PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 1 OXFORD UNITED 0 I’m hoping to make this a brief one as I have little time to bang it out between returning from Devon and heading to Morecambe. Truth be told though I usually fail when trying such things but I’ll give it a  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.43 IPSWICH AT HOME Prior to the game There’s been some insightful analysis posted on social media playing around with data leading to predictions as to where we’ll end up when all 24 teams have played all their 46 games. What will be will be but I couldn’t resist having a  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – No.42 SHREWSBURY TOWN 1 OXFORD UNITED 2 They’ll need more than a drum for that The world is a pretty shitty place right now with Putin foisting evil beyond description on innocent human beings. Then there’s covid which very much has not gone away. All this getting back to normal talk,  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.41 OXFORD UNITED 4 BURTON ALBION 1 When I raise in debate that our defending is not at the standard of the best in L1 I think some people just have me down as a moaner. They look no further than the happiness we get from currently being served some of  [ more ]