Rage Online

I was also at this match (the three of us make up a fair proportion of the crowd!) dark days indeed.

September 12th 1981

United, managed by Ian Greaves, headed to Somerton Park for an away league game at Newport
County on this day 36 years ago. Playing in an all red Adidas away strip and leading 2-0 at the break through
goals from Malcolm Shotton and striker Keith Cassells, County roared back in the pouring rain with
three superb second half goals in 11 minutes through John Aldridge and substitute Alan Waddle
with a brace.

U's: Burton; Doyle, Briggs, Shotton, Fogg; Jones, Page, Jeffrey, Smithers; Foley, Cassells

Newport: Kendall; Bailey, Oakes, Lees, Davies; Vaughan, Elsey, Johnson, Moore; Gwyther, Aldridge

Att: 5,293

Who the fuck was Shaw?

Werthers Original wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:46 pm Who the fuck was Shaw?

He played, and scored, for Arsenal so one of the better ones on that list!

YF Dan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:30 pm This might be worse:

http://www.rageonline.co.uk/mainpage/fi ... 007-10-06/

I was at Droylsden. Possibly the lowest of low points, although some quite good gallows humour as more and more crap centrebacks appeared in the line-up.

September 13th 1985

On this day midfielder Ray Houghton signs for Oxford for £147,000 from Fulham.
Wokingham based Houghton turned down a transfer to West Bromwich Albion
and joins the U's under Maurice Evans on a three year deal.
Houghton made his Oxford debut the very next day in a 2-2 draw
with Liverpool at the Manor Ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_q0EjFutig

16 minutes of highlights from that very match.

14th September 1997

Oxford Utd sign former Liverpool stopper Bruce Grobbelaar, 39 on a short term loan from Plymouth Argyle
to cover for the injured Phil Whitehead. Grobbelaar's stay was short lived - leaving the U's within a
week to sign for Sheffield Wednesday. During that week in 1997, Bruce Grobbelaar was charged by the FA
for breaching its rules on betting. Earlier that summer Grobbelaar has been cleared of match fixing at
Winchester Crown Court. U's secretary Mick Brown in the article below stated that Grobbelaar's FA charge would not
stop him playing for the U's against Sheffield United at the Manor Ground that weekend.

In the end,young Eliot Jackson was put between the sticks by Denis Smith in Whitehead's absence.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 39994.html

OUFC4eva wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:37 am

September 13th 1985

On this day midfielder Ray Houghton signs for Oxford for £147,000 from Fulham.
Wokingham based Houghton turned down a transfer to West Bromwich Albion
and joins the U's under Maurice Evans on a three year deal.
Houghton made his Oxford debut the very next day in a 2-2 draw
with Liverpool at the Manor Ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_q0EjFutig

16 minutes of highlights from that very match.

Couple of modern day red cards at 4 and 6.50!

Noticeable how both goalkeepers kicked the ball out as soon as they got it, real 100mph stuff at times, nowadays there seems to be a constant break in play with keepers hanging onto it, much more fouls and time wasting.

17th September 1987

After having a £400,000 bid for Derby County midfielder Nigel Callaghan rejected
United boss Maurice Evans opens the cheque book with the double signing of Watford
attacking full back David Bardsley, 23 for £265,000 and his Watford team mate
Richard Hill for £260,000. Bardsley's signing meant the end of David Langan's U's career.
United had just lost three league games on the trot but the signings paid off immediately
as Hill headed in on his debut as United beat table toppers QPR at the Manor Ground 2-0,
just two days after signing. Kevin Brock was in the Rangers team that day.

That double signing seemed to have turned Us around - we won four league games in a row starting with QPR after a shaky start. And then we didn't win a single game after early November for the rest of the season!

Bardsley was a great player - underrated for Us I thought. Has anyone since gone on to play for England after leaving OUFC? And has anyone in the history of OUFC had a dodgier barnet than Richard Hill?

Kernow Yellow wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:06 pm And has anyone in the history of OUFC had a dodgier barnet than Richard Hill?

Gary Silver...?

Roo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:04 pm

Kernow Yellow wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:06 pm And has anyone in the history of OUFC had a dodgier barnet than Richard Hill?

Gary Silver...?

Pål Lundin?

September 19th 1998

United are humiliated at the Stadium of Light as Peter Reid's Sunderland rout them 7-0.
This was, and still is, a club record defeat with the U's 2-0 down inside the first
five minutes.It was United's second visit to the new Sunderland stadium.

I saw the goals for the very first time here in a recently released video - it's horrific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h36alz8swYI

U's: Whitehead; Robinson, Whelan, Gilchrist, Marsh; Beauchamp, Gray, Smith, Powell; Thomson, Windass

SAFC: Sorensen; Williams, Melville, Butler, Gray; Summerbee, Ball, Mullin, Johnston; Dichio, Bridges

Att: 34,567

But what a beautiful attendance - every Booters dream!

September 20th 1980

On this day Bill Asprey's U's continued their dismal start to the 1980-1981 season
with another home defeat - this time to Carlisle United. Substitute Peter Beardsley netted a
late second half winner for the Cumbrians in front of a paltry crowd of 2,712.
Phil Lythgoe cancelled out Gordon Staniforth's opener.

U's: Burton; Kingston, Cooke, Shotton, Fogg; Brock, Jones, Jeffrey, Taylor; Lythgoe, Foley

Carlisle: Swinburne; Hoolickin, MacDonald, Coady, Watson; McVitie, Parker, Metcalfe, Bannon; Hamilton, Staniforth