Roy's View From... Pre-Match View From Oxford

[Roygbiv]

Pre-Match View From Oxford — The View From

"I will be watching this from behind the sofa," "1/2 on Sheffield United and I think that's generous. They've played seven, won six and drawn one and only conceded two goals at home and we're going there in poor form and with our captain and beat centre back out. I'd be over the moon with

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[Yellarbellyblade]

Pre-Match View From Oxford — The View From

"I will be watching this from behind the sofa," "1/2 on Sheffield United and I think that's generous. They've played seven, won six and drawn one and only conceded two goals at home and we're going there in poor form and with our captain and beat centre back out. I'd be over the moon with

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Thanks mate quite amusing bunch although I oddly hate it when the opposition are expecting defeat so much

 

[CrookesBlade]

No mention of kidney punching the disabled. Very disappointing.

Surprised none of them remembered them nicking a last minute winner at the lane in ‘99. The man sat in front of me just had with his head in his hands for 5 mins shouting “Oxford?!?! bloody Oxford ?!?!”

 

[Cappy]

“It was 1-2 back in the eighties. Wednesday evening game at Bramhall Lane. Steve Biggins won it in the 88th minute right in front of the home end. Remember it so well. A repeat scoreline please.”

Tuesday night, actually. 6th March, 1984.

Yes, I looked it up in the hope he'd got something wrong, so I could come on here and pretend to be the bollox, whereas I'm just pathetic really

17,914 attendance in Div3. Not bad at all !

Cheers Roy!! UTB!

 

[Harry's Game]

“It was 1-2 back in the eighties. Wednesday evening game at Bramhall Lane. Steve Biggins won it in the 88th minute right in front of the home end. Remember it so well. A repeat scoreline please.”


If that’s the game I think it was then our goal was from Colin Morris one of the best goals I’ve ever seen from a United Player a 30 yard top bins thunder bastard I was only about 10 years old so it might not be that one?

 

[XH536]

Pre-Match View From Oxford — The View From

"I will be watching this from behind the sofa," "1/2 on Sheffield United and I think that's generous. They've played seven, won six and drawn one and only conceded two goals at home and we're going there in poor form and with our captain and beat centre back out. I'd be over the moon with

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Grounded lot, wish them the best, except tomorrow and on the 5th April'25.
Thank you Roy.

 

[The Crab]

Cheers Roy

 

[knowsnowt]

Oxford to me is just fuck loads of roundabouts.
Does my head in.

 

[Cappy]

Oxford to me is just fuck loads of roundabouts.
Does my head in.

And a shopping mall with no roof. Get to fuck with that

 

[Harry's Game]

My favourite Oxford United story is the weekend after their hated former owner Robert Maxwell fell of his boat and drowned they were singing in the crowd

when the Rob Rob Robert goes Bob Bob Bobbing along

 

[DifferentClass]

My favourite Oxford United story is the weekend after their hated former owner Robert Maxwell fell of his boat and drowned they were singing in the crowd

when the Rob Rob Robert goes Bob Bob Bobbing along

Didn't some of them bring dinghies unall?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Five words......"its hard to see anything" ....quite a few with this problem.

 

[Snowflake]

Five words......"its hard to see anything" ....quite a few with this problem.

Especially after a few pints ?

 

[Super Furry Blades]

Went to manor ground in 90s open away end 3-0 down at half time
Centre back scored from a corner or 2
Matt Elliott

 

[Blacksea]

“It was 1-2 back in the eighties. Wednesday evening game at Bramhall Lane. Steve Biggins won it in the 88th minute right in front of the home end. Remember it so well. A repeat scoreline please.”

Tuesday night, actually. 6th March, 1984.

Yes, I looked it up in the hope he'd got something wrong, so I could come on here and pretend to be the bollox, whereas I'm just pathetic really

17,914 attendance in Div3. Not bad at all !

Cheers Roy!! UTB!

That was when Keith Edwards gave a simple straight forward pass straight to their man,passed it back from around the halfway line and they broke straight from it and it was in before our defence had time to react because of that bad pass

 

[espoo blade]

Pre-Match View From Oxford — The View From

"I will be watching this from behind the sofa," "1/2 on Sheffield United and I think that's generous. They've played seven, won six and drawn one and only conceded two goals at home and we're going there in poor form and with our captain and beat centre back out. I'd be over the moon with

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Yes! "Bramhall Lane " is back! haven't seen one for a while.

 

[Champagneblade]

Thanks mate quite amusing bunch although I oddly hate it when the opposition are expecting defeat so much

That’s what I like about the Championship. Fans who are self-deprecating and can make themselves a butt of the joke.

So much more refreshing than the responses of “finished club”, after you’ve narrowly lost to a team that cost half a billion to assemble, by a ‘fan’ who you know has never set foot within 4,000 miles of your opponents’ home ground.

 

[BalticBlade]

Are these the first set of opposition fans this season to not say something along the lines of 'Sheffield aren't anything special'?
For that reason, I hope they win tomorrow night!

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

Didn’t we lose to them in the late 90’s? Pretty sure I watched from the BLUT for the only time I’ve been in it that game and they scored a freekick to win it. Might have mixed it up with another game

 

[Paulus]

Quite surprised at the lack of Wilder comments, I got the impression he wasn't liked at Oxford after he left them.

 

[Beans]

Didn’t we lose to them in the late 90’s? Pretty sure I watched from the BLUT for the only time I’ve been in it that game and they scored a freekick to win it. Might have mixed it up with another game

Mentioned in post #3 above, good memory! For some reason the highlights are on youtube:

 

[Gimli]

That’s what I like about the Championship. Fans who are self-deprecating and can make themselves a butt of the joke.

So much more refreshing than the responses of “finished club”, after you’ve narrowly lost to a team that cost half a billion to assemble, by a ‘fan’ who you know has never set foot within 4,000 miles of your opponents’ home ground.

Give me Oxford, Millwall and Preston over Arsenal, Man City and Man U!

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

No mention of kidney punching the disabled. Very disappointing.

Surprised none of them remembered them nicking a last minute winner at the lane in ‘99. The man sat in front of me just had with his head in his hands for 5 mins shouting “Oxford?!?! bloody Oxford ?!?!”

My first time at the Lane was that. You can see how I got hooked.

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

Mentioned in post #3 above, good memory! For some reason the highlights are on youtube:

Surprised to see commentators referring to us as "Sheffield" as far back as 1999, I was sure that was a recent thing

 

[Bladepicker]

Mentioned in post #3 above, good memory! For some reason the highlights are on youtube:

Still remember that as it was one of the first Friday night games we'd played in that wasn't away at Tranmere.

Went straight out down town afterwards and my Wednesday mates constantly took the piss that we'd lost to Oxford, ruined both my night and my weekend. I've always hated Friday night games since then, great if you win, football weekend ruined before it's begun of not.

 

[CrookesBlade]

My first time at the Lane was that. You can see how I got hooked.

Steve Bruce doing his work experience as a football manager coupled with an owner who’d spent up (some things never change)….what a dreary old season that was.

The only highlight was the game at Arsenal in the cup.

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

On the plus side, the PA system still used to play The Professionals theme when we scored and we had the old animated dot matrix scoreboard that was like a giant pinball machine display

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Glad to see that at least one of them watched the same game I did at Coventry. Most sky blue fans were diving in the concourse to try and win a free pie.

 

[CrookesBlade]

On the plus side, the PA system still used to play The Professionals theme when we scored and we had the old animated dot matrix scoreboard that was like a giant pinball machine display

Aye, there was a little ball going into a net animation when we scored.

Had some half decent players that year to be fair. Still and Alan Kelly/Simon Tracey, David ‘Reg’ Holdsworth, Graham Stuart, Marcelo, Wayne Quinn, Paul Devlin plus Woodhouse and Lee Morris in their breakout seasons. Flogged Vas Borbokis to Derby that year as well. Tri Dellas on the books as well and he could barely get a game.

Steve Bruce kept insisting on playing himself til it was painfully obvious that he was way past it.

 

[Silent Blade]

Didn’t we lose to them in the late 90’s? Pretty sure I watched from the BLUT for the only time I’ve been in it that game and they scored a freekick to win it. Might have mixed it up with another game

Yes, Friday night in March 1999