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Match wrap | Oxford United 1 West Bromwich Albion 1
'We returned from the international break leaden legged. I reminded myself that this was normal, we can't expect to stay unbeaten. Buckingham had a plan and made his adjustments, our flow returned.'
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People you encounter in the week before Wembley, a thread.
1. The person at work who asks if you’re going.
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A Joey Beauchamp wrap
I set out to try and write a Charlton match wrap, but inevitably ended up writing about Joey Beauchamp.
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There’s an area of our promotion that's often understated because in any good story, the storytellers get missed.
So here’s a thread about something that I think needs to be said…
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2. The person who says they ‘might pop along to that’ like they’re going to watch Easington Sports or visit a local fete.
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Six years.
Two of the fourteen played in the Premier League
Eight played in The Championship
Two are in a major European final
Two won the Scottish Premier League
One played in the Bundesliga
Two are full internationals
One is, and always will be, Chris Maguire
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Still the undisputed greatest Milk Cup Final picture of all time.
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George Baldock
'George Baldock fizzed with a verve and spirit; the pitch, the atmosphere, the context didn’t matter, he chose to be the change he wanted. This boundless effervescence makes his death even more difficult to process.'
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Oxford United
Accidentally at the top of the table.
A thread...
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There you have it; 7,300 votes later James Constable is the Favourite
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Player of the Decade World Cup winner.
So, gather the children around the fire and tell them his story this Xmas...
Midweek fixture: James Constable, the…
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Breaking: Sam Long officially overtakes vaccine as the best thing to come out of Oxford in the last year.
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"We take the risks of Coronavirus very seriously and we're doing everything we can to minimise person to person contact."
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12. The person who hasn’t been to a game all season but now needs 26 tickets because their family is 'Oxford mad'.
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A match wrap about my dad
'Bolton passed me by because on Friday we got a call that we had expected, my dad, a life long Oxford fan, had passed away.'
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Here’s the team that Emiliano Martinez, World Cup Final goalkeeper, played with for Oxford.
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Pretty much every player who didn't play on Saturday produced something memorable this season.
Here's Billy Bodin's.
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4. The person who tells you their favourite player is John Constable and you don’t have the heart to correct them or tell them they’re talking about an eighteenth century landscape painter.
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Breaking: Oxford United confirm that Ollie The Ox has been recalled by his home farm.
Farmer Giles said "He's at a good run at Oxford which will really help his career, but that field out the back won't plough itself."
We wish Ollie all the best.
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Promotion wrap | Oxford United 2 Bolton Wanderers 0
'That was for the people that kept going, the fans, the media, the players, the managers, the owners. The casuals and the dedicated. The past and the present. That was for you.'
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Unusual way to announce you’re staying at the club next season.
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21. The person who keeps referring to Oxford as 'us' while sipping coffee from their 'Captain, Leader, Legend' John Terry mug.
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One of the great things about our application for a new stadium is that it turns out every single Oxford fan is an expert in town planning. This has got to give us a massive advantage.
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I've just realised it's the 10th anniversary of our Play-Off Semi-Final win over Rushden and Diamonds. This is a picture at the final whistle.
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3. The person who asks you to get them a ticket, says ‘hang on, I’ll pay for that now’, pulls out their wallet and offers you £20. Then, pulls a face when you say it’s more like £50.
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Since we last won at Southend in the league:
Facebook was created
iPhone was invented
Strictly Come Dancing was launched
X factor started
Britain has had 5 Prime Ministers
#oufc
have had 11 managers
It's been 5809 days
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People say they've never seen anything like the anger of this mob in Washington. They've clearly never seen the East Stand when an opposition player tries to place the ball an inch outside the arc at a corner.
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Breaking: The Big Six: Oxford United, North Leigh, Oxford City, Didcot Town, Wantage Town and Banbury United announce formation of multi-billion pound Oxfordshire Super Senior Cup competition.
"It's like the Senior Cup, but we've added the word 'Super' to make it more special"
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Grant McCann of Hull City wins manager of the month in January.
Oxford had a perfect record. Hull played three more games but only gained two more points. KRob's managerial failing was, therefore, his inability to prevent it from raining in Northampton.
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Match wrap | Oxford United 0 Burnley 0
'Burnley spent nearly £50m this summer; we may be in the same division, but we're not in the same league. Des Buckingham is steering us into a new clearer mindset and we're responding with refreshing intelligence.'
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*dramatic music*
This autumn, a major sports documentary.
A friendship even their friends and family knew nothing about. A story that's never been told. A story that's so secret, it never happened.
Kioso and Murphy, coming to Netflix this autumn.
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Match wrap | Coventry City 6 Oxford United 2
'They score; our fans unleash a tirade of abuse towards the Coventry fans. We equalise; our fans unleash a tirade of abuse towards the Coventry fans. We only stand in opposition to things, not for anything.'
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Top 10
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goalscorers of the decade:
64 - James Constable
37 - James Henry
31 - Kemar Roofe
30 - Danny Hylton
27 - Tom Craddock
25 - Alfie Potter
23 - Liam Sercombe
23 - Chris Maguire
20 - Rob Hall
16 - Deane Smalley
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Alex Ferguson won 13 league titles, 5 FA Cups, 3 Champions Leagues and 16 other major titles.
The EFL have chosen to celebrate his 80th birthday by featuring a defeat to
#oufc
.
This is entirely correct.
Happy 80th birthday, Sir Alex!
To celebrate we look back at his first game in English football, a match against
@OUFCOfficial
...
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#EFLMemorableMoments
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Days since we lost at the County Ground: 7,457
Days Leon Chambers-Parillon has been alive: 7,064
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Waterlogged pitch at Northampton you say? Has anyone asked what Andy Whing thinks about that?
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18 years since we were relegated from the Football League.
Reader, it got better.
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This was not a brilliant goal... it was the greatest goal ever scored.
A REMINDER:
Joey Beauchamp scores a brilliant goal for Oxford United against Blackpool in 1995/96
#OUFC
👏👏
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I know it's a bit of a side issue, but James Henry is currently joint top scorer in the Conference with five goals in three games.
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Jack Payne scored from 3 yards out, it doesn't sound much but that's the equivalent of a normal sized man scoring from the halfway line.
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Forty years ago today we won the Third Division title.
We played 65 games that season scoring 118 goals and beating Newcastle United, Leeds United and Manchester United (over three games) in the Milk Cup.
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That black hole is 53.5 million light years away. To put that in perspective, that’s about the same distance that Peter Leven can lob a Port Vale goalkeeper from.
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Top 10 moments:
1. Martinez v Middlesborough
2. Maguire v Swindon
3. Sercombe v Carlisle
4. Mackie v Bradford
5. Dunkley v Wycombe
6. Potter v York
7. Hall v Swindon
8. Baptiste v West Ham
9. Potter v Portsmouth
10. Roofe v Swansea
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9. The person who tells you they once saw Gary Numan at Wembley, ���but that was the arena’.
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6. The person who asks you 'where's that being played, then?' and then is incredulous that it's Wembley.
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More old programme news…
From 1986, I wonder whatever happened to this young fella?
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What the World is saying:
"Oxford is the centre of great achievements that change the world, just look what they did with the vaccine."
What Oxford is saying:
"OXFORD IS THE CENTRE OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS THAT CHANGE THE WORLD, JUST LOOK AT WHAT SAM LONG DID LAST NIGHT."
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I love Tyler.
"It means absolutely everything!"
Oxford academy graduate Tyler Goodrham on what it means to secure promotion to the Championship 🤩
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15 years since we were relegated to the Conference... then it got better.
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I've been trying to find some decent Gary Briggs footage... and then came across this challenge from John Trewick v Liverpool in 1985.
I'm sure he got the ball, but it may top Ricardinho's tackle v MK Dons.
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League 1 title
FA Cup
EFL Cup
EFL Trophy
Oxfordshire Senior Cup
The Quintuple is ON.
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Three years to the day since we won promotion against Wycombe in what was otherwise a fairly uneventful season.
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The final paragraph of my tribute to Mickey Lewis when he died...
"My youth coach at Oxford, Mickey Lewis, took me under his wing. He’s the reason I got into coaching, and I found myself really enjoying it." 💛
Well worth a read, this.
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13 years ago today... relegated from the Football League.
Got better though...
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The only thing you need to know about how good Luke McNally was is that we scored four goals and the sponsors didn't give any of the goalscorers man of the match.
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It's done, 33 players and nearly 4000 votes later...
The World Cup of
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Central Defenders Grand Final winner is...
Matt Elliott
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James Henry's run here was genuinely one of my favourite moments of the season.
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It's taken 3000 votes to get here, and here we are...
The World Cup of Oxford United Strikers winner is...
James Ashley Beano Constable
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Matty Lund of Rochdale wins player of the month ahead of Josh Ruffels.
He scored one more goal in two more games from midfield than Ruffels did from full-back. He helped Rochdale pick up four points to Oxford's twelve. Oxford conceded four goals, Rochdale seventeen.
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Lockdown restrictions leaked:
Non-essential retail to shut
Schools to remain open
Pubs and restaurants to close
Oxford United defence to remain wide open.
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Oxford and Pompey at the top of the table, will we finally get an answer to the age old question; are you a Mann or a Mous?
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Me: I’ve watched Jamie Mackie’s goal so many times, it just can’t get better.
GoalCam: Hold my beer.
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Apparently one of the Pompey players said something about the efficacy of our vaccine and it all kicked off. Sam Long was mad as hell.
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And that’s it; the greatest game ever played at the Kassam stadium is...
Oxford United 3 Wycombe Wanderers 0, April 2016
What do you think of that fellas?
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5. The person who tells you they haven’t been to a game for ‘twenty years’, and then tells you a story about going to The Manor at least thirty years ago.
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In 1984, Jim Smith tried to sign Trevor Francis from Sampdoria. To put that into context, that was like us trying to sign Harry Kane nowadays.
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When you zoom in on it, the attention to detail on these shirts is incredible.
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Apparently there’s a plan to combine the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine with others to improve effectiveness.
Presumably we can call it the Oxford United Vaccine.
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Happy Milk Cup Final Day!
I may regret this, but I saw someone else do it.
I have 135 amazing (and not so amazing) Milk Cup Final facts. For every retweet this tweet gets today, I will add another fact to this thread.
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Anyway, that's enough lists.
Happy New Year to everyone, I'm genuinely grateful for all the nice things you say about the blog at that. May all your goals be a Jamie Mackie volley in the 94th minute and all your woes be as forgotten as Tony Capaldi.
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