Sorry to also go off piste but 1-4 at Portsmouth, August 2013.
Winning at the County Ground in 2011 felt like the greatest of the results listed, but I was too nervous to enjoy the day until it was all over.
Ah but this thread is for games from May 16!Yeap, Portsmouth 2013 is definitely up there.
I would also add the 2x Autumn trips to Hereford upon promotion back into the League (2010, 2011). Both were fantastic 'traditional' away days (and nights), they've kind of merged but one was definitely a heatwave and both involved cracking train journeys packed with Oxford - not always about the significance of the game, is it?
Charlton. It was a perfect day out for me and the football just topped it off. Results like that always feel better when you're not expecting them, we were in a real mess at that point. I didn't see Oxford win again for 16 games, until December 2021 (we did knock Sunderland out on penalties during that sequence, but it was still a draw).
Standing on that terrace having won, and waiting for the Blackburn result in the days before mobile phones and instant results on the Web, which was running about 10mins behind to see if we had escaped, that most definitely was nerve-wracking.Ah but this thread is for games from May 16!
If we are going back in time, Tranmere away keeping us up in 1992 was the most nerve racking