General Yesteryear

ON THIS DAY

March 6th 1982

Newly appointed on March 1st , Jim Smith wins his first match as United manager with a 2-0 victory over crisis club Bristol City at a cold and wet Ashton Gate.
Malcolm Shotton and sub Ollie Kearns with the goals. Bristol City were managed by Roy Hodgson.

U’s: Burton - Doyle Briggs Shotton Fogg - Foley Jeffrey Brock Thomas - Cassells Seacole
Sub: Kearns

Att: 8,155

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West Oxon U’s said:
ON THIS DAY

March 6th 1982

Newly appointed on March 1st , Jim Smith wins his first match as United manager with a 2-0 victory over crisis club Bristol City at a cold and wet Ashton Gate.
Malcolm Shotton and sub Ollie Kearns with the goals. Bristol City were managed by Roy Hodgson.

U’s: Burton - Doyle Briggs Shotton Fogg - Foley Jeffrey Brock Thomas - Cassells Seacole
Sub: Kearns

Att: 8,155

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Seven (6 from Oxon,Jeffrey a Scot )home grown players in our 12 ....not including Ollie Kearns a Banbury boy who came on a free from Reading .
Also would think the line up was Seacole/Brock on the wings , Jeffrey/Thomas midfield with Foley / Cassells up top ?
 
West Oxon U’s said:
ON THIS DAY

March 6th 1982

Newly appointed on March 1st , Jim Smith wins his first match as United manager with a 2-0 victory over crisis club Bristol City at a cold and wet Ashton Gate.
Malcolm Shotton and sub Ollie Kearns with the goals. Bristol City were managed by Roy Hodgson.

U’s: Burton - Doyle Briggs Shotton Fogg - Foley Jeffrey Brock Thomas - Cassells Seacole
Sub: Kearns

Att: 8,155

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Ken Fish in the background?
 
ON THIS DAY

March 7th 1981

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Fewer than 3,000 attend the 1-1 draw with Hull City at a cold and wet Manor Ground despite improved performances under Ian Greaves.
Billy Whitehurst was on the bench for Hull. Joe Cooke scored for United.

U’s: Burton - Doyle Briggs Cooke Fogg - Brock Jeffrey Jones Smithers - Foley Berry

Att: 2,934

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West Oxon U’s said:
ON THIS DAY

March 7th 1981

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Fewer than 3,000 attend the 1-1 draw with Hull City at a cold and wet Manor Ground despite improved performances under Ian Greaves.
Billy Whitehurst was on the bench for Hull. Joe Cooke scored for United.

U’s: Burton - Doyle Briggs Cooke Fogg - Brock Jeffrey Jones Smithers - Foley Berry

Att: 2,934

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OMG just look at the old Osler Road tin shed stand :love: , and that scoreboard :love: If only we could do a graphical recreation of it on the current electronic scoreboard...
 
ON THIS DAY

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March 17th 1974

On this Sunday 50 years ago United drew 1-1 with relegation threatened Swindon Town at the Manor.
Hugh Curran scored for the U’s who were managed by the recently departed Gerry Summers. David Moss replied for the Robins.
Swindon were in fact relegated to the third division at the end of the 1973-74 season.

U’s: Burton - Light Roberts C Clarke Shuker - Gough Briggs Aylott D.Clarke - Curran Atkinson

Att: 9,557
 
ON THIS DAY

March 18th 2023

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Liam Manning - United’s new Head Coach - takes charge of the U’s for the first time for the away fixture at Morecambe on this day 12 months ago.
With no wins since January 21st, United take the lead through Marcus Browne but are pegged back by Ash Hunter’s 87th minute strike.

U’s: Eastwood - Long Moore Findlay Brown - Smyth McGuane Brannagan - Browne O’Donkor Wildschut
Subs: Bate, Joseph & Murphy

Att; 4,260
 
ON THIS DAY

March 23rd 1985

Mick McCarthy looks on as Trevor Hebberd heads in the third for the promotion chasing U’s as they defeat Manchester City 3-0 at the Manor.

U’s: Hardwick - Langan Briggs Shotton McDonald - Brock Hebberd Trewick Rhoades-Brown - Hamilton Aldridge

Att: 13,096

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ON THIS DAY

March 23rd 1985

Mick McCarthy looks on as Trevor Hebberd heads in the third for the promotion chasing U’s as they defeat Manchester City 3-0 at the Manor.

U’s: Hardwick - Langan Briggs Shotton McDonald - Brock Hebberd Trewick Rhoades-Brown - Hamilton Aldridge

Att: 13,096

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Remember that game well, it was a massive game for us as we had been having a bit of a wobble at the time, don't think it came too far after losing 3-0 at home to Birmingham. This seemed to get us going again.
 
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Remember that game well, it was a massive game for us as we had been having a bit of a wobble at the time, don't think it came too far after losing 3-0 at home to Birmingham. This seemed to get us going again.
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Yep, I can remember that game as well, seemed to confirm we deserve to go up as Champions.
Even though it was 39 years ago I could name the line up, whereas one year ago Morecambe away (see above) I would probably only guess half the players.
 
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Remember that game well, it was a massive game for us as we had been having a bit of a wobble at the time, don't think it came too far after losing 3-0 at home to Birmingham. This seemed to get us going again.
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Yes, when Billy Hamilton got injured in the warm up before the Blackburn cup game it knocked us for six!! We were struggling to even get one. I think Brocky was the only player to score in five consecutive games and John Aldridge went eight games without scoring because he was missing his strike partner. It took a while for Jeremy Charles to fit in. We did thrash Wimbledon 4-0 at the Manor between the Birmingham game and Man City game and that seemed to get us back on track. We only lost two more games after that, Barnsley and Leeds away.
Big Billy was such an influential player and that was the start of his knee problems.
 
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