Write my next book for me

[boris]

Most players with the same surnames.

Or players/managers with the same name:
Arthur Turner
Jim Smith
...

(I was grateful, from a database maintenance point of view, that we didn't sign the other Paul Tait...

[Mally]

Abdou Sall worthy of two topics:

1. Players who sound like an Indian vegetable side dish

2. Players who never touched the ball despite playing for Oxford

[Mally]

Abdou Sall worthy of two topics:

1. Players who sound like an Indian vegetable side dish

2. Players who never touched the ball despite playing for Oxford

Another one I just thought of is what must be the shortest managerial career in professional football history when Oldfield was manager for the game against Mansfield (between Atkins and Rix) that got called off at half time.

The Argentinian &quotlegend&quot who didn't have a work permit and had to manage the club from exile in Italy.

The same legend who picked two of his sons to play and both were complete rubbish.

Also we almost certainly hold the record for the most number of managers over the last decade.

[SteMerritt]

Abdou Sall worthy of two topics:
Another one I just thought of is what must be the shortest managerial career in professional football history when Oldfield was manager for the game against Mansfield (between Atkins and Rix) that got called off at half time.

That's not the shortest managerial reign at Oxford though, Patterson managed no games when he was Oxford manager for the first time.

[slappy]

Also we almost certainly hold the record for the most number of managers over the last decade.

Surely Grays with 12 in 3 years, about to be 13?
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[A-Ro]

On a sort of &quotWhere are they now&quot theme, players who went on to manage.

[Mally]

Abdou Sall worthy of two topics:
Another one I just thought of is what must be the shortest managerial career in professional football history when Oldfield was manager for the game against Mansfield (between Atkins and Rix) that got called off at half time.

That's not the shortest managerial reign at Oxford though, Patterson managed no games when he was Oxford manager for the first time.

I thought Patterson was the manager immediately before WPL took over and managed for 3 games.

[Mally]

Also we almost certainly hold the record for the most number of managers over the last decade.

Surely Grays with 12 in 3 years, about to be 13?
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Are they professional?

In the last decade I can remember the following for us:

Malcolm Shotton
Mickey Lewis
Dennis Smith
Mike Ford
Joe Kinnear
Dave Kemp
Mark Wright
Ian Atkins
David Oldfield
Graham Rix
Ramon Diaz
Brian Talbot
Darren Patterson (X2)
Jim Smith (X2)
Chris Wilder

[A-Ro]

There must be a slot for Billy Hamilton somewhere if only for the fact that he got a testimonial after only 32 league appearances for us.

[Myles Francis]

If it's narrative you want rather than lists, surely there must be volumes to write on the times when someone was trying to turn the club into a recycling business?

Or you could just write &quotThe Book&quot on the FOUL years?

[SteMerritt]

I thought Patterson was the manager immediately before WPL took over and managed for 3 games.

My memory has it (and granted this is probably completely wrong) that he was only installed as 'manager' (as opposed to 'caretaker') the day before WPL took over, and never took charge of a game as 'manager'. Technicality though, sure!

[boris]

If it's narrative you want rather than lists, surely there must be volumes to write on the times when someone was trying to turn the club into a recycling business?

Or you could just write &quotThe Book&quot on the FOUL years?

True on both counts, but that's not what I've been commissioned to write.

[Myles Francis]

Cop out!

[A-Ro]

Not so much miscellaneous as random you could write a bit on that Polish guy with the top hat and big flag.

[Mally]

The funniest thing related to Oxford United I can think of was Dave Crabtree's ghosting of Malcolm Shotton's manager's column in the programme where the paragraphs started with the letters

W,
A,
N,
K,
E, and
R

Brilliant! But probably not the sort of ting you can put in the book.