General Yesteryear

[West Oxon U’s]

ON THIS DAY - 20th September 1980

United 1-2 Carlisle

Peter Beardsley with a late winner to defeat Bill Asprey’s U’s.
Phil Lythgoe with the goal for Oxford. Just 2,712 watched it.

Oxford :
Burton:
Kingston, Cooke, Shotton, Fogg
Jones, Jeffrey, Taylor, Brock
Foley, Lythgoe

 

[Oldham]

I saw most of the home games through a gate in the London rd fence , a sledgehammer to crack a nut, I thought the most was a knee jerk reaction in the first place,the pitch at times has to serve as a place of safety in times of emergency, plus i think that Maxwell finally got the idea that Thames valley totals was a non starter after a very peaceful pitch protest

I’m guessing you mean Thames Valley Royals but yes agreed ?

 

[SteMerritt]

ON THIS DAY - 20th September 1980

United 1-2 Carlisle

Peter Beardsley with a late winner to defeat Bill Asprey’s U’s.
Phil Lythgoe with the goal for Oxford. Just 2,712 watched it.

Oxford :
Burton:
Kingston, Cooke, Shotton, Fogg
Jones, Jeffrey, Taylor, Brock
Foley, Lythgoe

Now that's what a programme cover should look like...

 

[westyorkshireexile]

You mean the price of course!

 

[stokeu]

Our best ever team.... remember it like it was yesterday

 

[West Oxon U’s]

ON THIS DAY : 28th September 1985

Oxford Utd 1-0 Manchester City (Trewick pen.)

U’s : Steve Hardwick; Dave Langan, Gary Briggs, Mal Shotton, Neil Slatter; Kevin Brock, Ray Houghton,Trevor Hebberd, John Trewick;
Andy Thomas, John Aldridge.

City : Eric Nixon; Andy May, Kenny Clements, Mick McCarthy, Paul Power; Mark Lillis, Sammy McIlroy, David Phillips, Clive Wilson;
Jim Tolmie, Jim Melrose.

Att: 9,796

 

[West Oxon U’s]

In the above mentioned Man City match, City fans cut through the fencing at the Cuckoo Lane End.

 

[Oldham]

In the above mentioned Man City match, City fans cut through the fencing at the Cuckoo Lane End.

Scruffy northern mungrels, look at his sh!t trainers ?

 

[Jonny G]

In the above mentioned Man City match, City fans cut through the fencing at the Cuckoo Lane End.

That was the 3 - 0 game the previous April. During summer 85 the Cuckoo Lane fence was re-built, a fair bit higher and right to the floor, with no wall at the bottom. Happy memories again all of this!! x

 

[Oldham]

We were pretty much untouchable back then, we’d have bets amongst our group on how many goals we’d score, not if we’d win or not, that was a given, just on how many goals we’d get

 

[Oxford57]

It seems a lifetime ago .those magic promotion seasons when you just assumed that we won every game because we so good

 

[Marked Ox]

ON THIS DAY : 28th September 1985

Oxford Utd 1-0 Manchester City (Trewick pen.)

U’s : Steve Hardwick; Dave Langan, Gary Briggs, Mal Shotton, Neil Slatter; Kevin Brock, Ray Houghton,Trevor Hebberd, John Trewick;
Andy Thomas, John Aldridge.

City : Eric Nixon; Andy May, Kenny Clements, Mick McCarthy, Paul Power; Mark Lillis, Sammy McIlroy, David Phillips, Clive Wilson;
Jim Tolmie, Jim Melrose.

Att: 9,796

John Trewick a.k.a. the Crab. A player that allowed others to play.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

ON THIS DAY - 8th October 2016

Oxford Utd Supporters’ Trust OxVox announce talks have been positive regarding community ownership
of the Grenoble Rd Stadium.

OxVox in talks over Oxford United stadium sale

Supporters of League One side Oxford United are in talks with the owner of the club's stadium, Firoz Kassam, over buying the ground.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[sting]

Yes. I remember Mick Brown doing the role as well. The air was very often as blue as it could get!!

Yes, and Ken Fish had a way with words too..

 

[Marked Ox]

Yes, and Ken Fish had a way with words too..

Not a patch on Dave Langan!

 

[dabigfella]

It seems a lifetime ago .those magic promotion seasons when you just assumed that we won every game because we so good

Its hard for anyone to understand just how confident we were if they hadn't been there.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

ON THIS DAY - 11th October 1992

Derby County 0-1 Oxford Utd (Durnin)

Utd - Paul Reece; Garry Smart, Ceri Evans, Andy Melville, Mike Ford; Les Phillips, Mickey Lewis, Jim Magilton, David Penney;
Nick Cusack, John Durnin

Derby - Steve Sutton; Andy Comyn, Craig Short, Darren Wassall, Mike Forsyth; Paul Simpson, Mark Pembridge, Martin Kuhl;
Tommy Johnson, Paul Kitson, Marco Gabbiadini

 

[Sarge]

ON THIS DAY - 11th October 1992

Derby County 0-1 Oxford Utd (Durnin)

Utd - Paul Reece; Garry Smart, Ceri Evans, Andy Melville, Mike Ford; Les Phillips, Mickey Lewis, Jim Magilton, David Penney;
Nick Cusack, John Durnin

Derby - Steve Sutton; Andy Comyn, Craig Short, Darren Wassall, Mike Forsyth; Paul Simpson, Mark Pembridge, Martin Kuhl;
Tommy Johnson, Paul Kitson, Marco Gabbiadini

Paul Reece MOTM ....and was signed straight after the game ( which was if memory serves televised?)

 

[SteMerritt]

Paul Reece MOTM ....and was signed straight after the game ( which was if memory serves televised?)

Yep, live on a Sunday afternoon. Classical smash and grab win, we were battered by Derby that day, Reece was phenomenal keeping them out, then a late winner ? Happy days.

 

[Marked Ox]

Yep, live on a Sunday afternoon. Classical smash and grab win, we were battered by Derby that day, Reece was phenomenal keeping them out, then a late winner ? Happy days.

When a live football game on TV was actually an event whoever was playing unlike now with the saturation levels of football on TV.