Recent content by Oxe

Absolutely right. Yes, Appleton moved players on but as part of a process of planned continual improvement which saw the team becoming ever more successful as a result. His mentor, Sir Alec, moved on some of their club’s greatest players but it was done as part of a plan to regenerate the team...

Good to have you back again, Paul! Yes, I am guessing that there were probably some equally bad pitches elsewhere but the Baseball Ground is the one that went down in folklore – mud everywhere... except where the mud was so bad, they put sand over the top... and where a back pass to the keeper...

Not sure that is entirely fair. We had just been promoted and were in our first season back in League 1- the increasing win ratio could be argued as evidence of the ongoing development of the side - and been to Wembly twice for finals. Certainly at the end of 2016/2017, with the names that were...

I'd enjoyed reading your 'back catalogue' from the first Cambridge game beforehand and remain constantly amazed by the prolificness of your output! Thanks!

Great report as ever, Paul - really appreciate you taking the time each week to produce such a thoughtful and fair assessment. Sees churlish to even mention it but it was perhaps Ian Evatt who though the ball had been handled...although I wouldn't put it past David Artell to stick his oar in!

Sky just announced that Oxford United to take Jerome Sinclair on loan until the end of the season

Thanks! Re. OM, absolutely!

I don’t think that one can know with any certainty what Thanakarnjanasuth is currently intending to do – it is quite possible that even he is not entirely sure at the moment – but when trying to discover more about him, I came across a couple of articles which were written in May/June 2016 when...

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ?

Thanks, yes, I had noted the September date but wondered whether it had been the intended plan - and still was the intended plan - but it had merely been delayed by events?

Advance apologies if someone has already pasted this link but is it what is currently being awaited and has just been delayed by helping out with the Indonesian elections? https://www.soccerex.com/insight/articles/2018/inter-milan-chairman-close-to-oxford-united-takeover

Spying…or just extremely thorough preparation? Think that you are spot on with the league position observation – they are top of the Championship with a similar squad to the previous year but with a world class manager who seemingly leaves nothing to chance in his meticulous preparation…whilst...

I think that it is entirely legitimate to express reservations as to how matters are progressing so to label as some sort of ‘village mob’ anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the view that the Thanakarnjanasuth/KR project has been an unbridled success is harsh. There will doubtless be the occasional...

Much as I sympathise with the sentiments, I think that there is very little chance that Thanakarnjanasuth will fire KR. Partly it will come down to a refusal to accept the loss of face involved in getting rid of someone that he personally chose and has personally supported, partly down to his...

I worry that you may be right and your analysis of the injury situation in respect to so many of those key players does not offer reassurance.