Great win, Great Christmas, Great December for the Yellows!
You can cancel voting for Supporters' Player of the Year already. Given that the award tends to be for a player that has had a great season, but also worked his B*****s off for the team for 90 minutes each and every game - you can't look further than Sam Long. He made a lung-bursting run towards the end of the second half on Saturday and I was wondering then how he had the fitness and energy to still do that. Well, today he did it again and won us the game!
In all, it was almost the opposite game (other than the result) to Saturday. Overrun for the first quarter, but then absolutely bossed the final 3/4.
Restricting the rest of my comments to the broadcast.....
- The Radio Oxford commentators must have really had a crap view where they were sitting, because they didn't seem to have the foggiest what was going on any time the ball was in the bottom left hand quarter of the pitch! Especially going on about a booking for Moore first half, when it was clearly Sam Long getting a final warning!
- That being said, whilst Rosey is an Oxford legend for everything he's given to the club, and Nick Harris is an Oxford institution - Stevie K is a far, far better summarizer than either of them. Listening to him for 90 minutes, I actually feel like I'm learning something (other than how badly can an Oxford player's name be mispronounced)
- Did Plymouth have a monkey working the game editing booth? Yes, I know they may have wanted to show off the fact that they have three cameras, but the way they seemingly randomly intercut between the three of them gave me a headache, and made parts of the game much tougher to follow than they should have been!
Anyways, great stuff. Now let's keep this run going against the bottom club, and then everyone can take a nice rest for a couple of weeks (or longer, if the EFL has to suspend things for Covid.......)