FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.41 – DERBY AT HOME Where are those straws? Prior to this game logic told me we are going down so I set myself the task of finding a straw to clutch on to but that was like, well, looking for one particular piece of straw in a very large haystack.  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.40 – LINCOLN AWAY The Build Up I honestly don’t know what to make of it all at present. Of course Robbo had to go, no question whatsoever. However until we get a permanent replacement what’s going to change? What will Craig Short and co. do differently? They’ve only got the  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.39 – BYE BYE ROBBO Below is what I was going to publish. I wrote it on Saturday evening and even though instinct told me I needed to get it out quickly, I didn’t hit the button there and then but waited until Sunday morning to put a couple of finishing  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.38 – CAMBRIDGE AWAY If we think we’re bad – and we certainly are bad – what does that make Cambridge? Since we beat Ipswich in the fog we’ve lost five and drawn one, scoring three and letting in 11. Cambridge last won on Boxing Day. Their previous win was two  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.37 OXFORD UNITED 1 PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 3 I don’t intend to waste much of my time on this. I usually give a bit of thought to getting some structure but I’m not going to on this one. Why bother with structure, my team has very little. This is now one point  [ more ]

  FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.36 – MILTON KEYNES AWAY MK DONS 1 OXFORD UNITED 1 Much like with us there is a dearth of good boozers to meet in close to their ground. The Chequers in Watling Street in Fenny Stratford which we used last season and which some of my mates quite rated,  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.35 – SHREWSBURY AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 0 SHREWSBURY TOWN 1 I thought our first half performance was a vast improvement on the previous three games. It gave me hope. In the second period though we regressed and by the end of the match the familiar hopelessness was once again on  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.34 – BARNSLEY AT HOME Our Opponents Other than Barnsley, we’d played every other L1 club at least once this season but a postponement earlier in the season meant this was our first meeting. The Tykes spend most of the time in the Championship, every now and again slipping into L1  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.33 – BURTON AWAY I recall standing on this terracing watching OUFC when it was packed. Not so here. BURTON ALBION 2 OXFORD UNITED 0 In the car returning from Staffordshire I was of a mind to make this FV just two words long and publish it immediately I walked through  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.32 – WYCOMBE AWAY WYCOMBE WANDERERS 2 OXFORD UNITED 0 This is one of the worst fixtures on the calendar for us. Some things about it cannot be changed but we are largely to blame for the awfulness of it all seemingly season after season. It takes some doing but the  [ more ]