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 ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.21: BLACKPOOL AWAY But first Papa John’s Perhaps, just perhaps, my attitude to this competition is changing very slightly but nowhere near enough yet to attend in person even though until last Saturday I’ve been starved of the real thing over the last nine months. Also as I was lucky  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.20: HULL AT HOME Fans are back but it was never going to be a case of everything is tickety-boo Whatever method the club chose to make tickets available to fans for this game was never going to please everyone. Whilst acknowledging that these are the most difficult and challenging  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.19: IPSWICH AT HOME Pre Ipswich or more truthfully post Swindon After our second half horror show on Saturday I just wanted to forget it ever happened that’s why I banged out a short FV in double quick time. Thing is though it can’t be forgotten however hard I try.  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.18: Oxford United 1 Swindon Town 2 Whether sat in one’s living room or the stands this is such an emotive fixture that to come up with rational analysis is much more difficult than normal. I will though give it a go. Overall I thought we deserved at least a  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.17: POMPEY AWAY Pre-match There are good teams and bad teams in L1. Pompey with 16 points from the last 21 fall into the first category whilst Wigan, the team we got that much needed win against last game, are clearly one of the latter, through the fault of Hong  [ more ]

SEASON 2020/21 – FAN’S VIEW No.16: WIGAN AWAY Pre-match I had thought of producing a list of the many glaring weaknesses that have become increasingly clear to almost all observers as our game count grows (after the Swindon game we’ll have completed a quarter of the league season). Things like – no midfield creativity, no  [ more ]