34 years ago today

[bicesterox]

Biggins looping header dropped over Wealands head to put Man Utd out of the league cup

That's better than being reminded about Tunbridge f*****g Angels ?

 

[bicesterox]

Tonbridge ?

 

[SteMerritt]

I was in the Osler about level with the edge of the penalty area, can still see that goal now. The ball just seemed to hang for an age before dropping into the goal.

 

[Notaswindonfan]

That’s right make me feel really old

 

[Johnf]

What a great night that was !!!
I remember getting home and watching it on television and if I remember right when the goal went in the camera switched to an Oxford fan jumping up and down on the top of the dugout

 

[Berliner]

Be thankful you have the memories, nothing before 88 for me. Makes the good times taste even sweeter though...

 

[Oxford57]

You have to remember how poor we were before the bald eagle took over,Bill asprey......

 

[SteMerritt]

You have to remember how poor we were before the bald eagle took over,Bill asprey......

I think Ian Greaves had more than a little to do with the turnaround, not just Jim Smith...

 

[Sarge]

and that was the SECOND replay of that particular cup tie, after holding Big Ron's Man Utd side at the Manor , then at Old Trafford, AET too

in the pre premiership days, ....cant have replays anymore as it might tire out the poor , overpaid prima donnas in the top fligh too much.

Cheers for the reminder of one of the many great memories of the days at The Manor bicesterox

 

[eraser]

and that was the SECOND replay of that particular cup tie, after holding Big Ron's Man Utd side at the Manor , then at Old Trafford, AET too

in the pre premiership days, ....cant have replays anymore as it might tire out the poor , overpaid prima donnas in the top fligh too much.

Cheers for the reminder of one of the many great memories of the days at The Manor bicesterox

Was that the tie Maxwell insisted on a coin toss rather than just give in to Man U?

 

[SteMerritt]

Was that the tie Maxwell insisted on a coin toss rather than just give in to Man U?

Yep that's the one. Didn't they try to bully us with gate receipt money? Many a chairman now would have taken another game at Old Trafford, good on Maxwell for standing his ground.

 

[SteMerritt]

Goal is at approx 3min 30sec

 

[Village-Yellow]

What a night that was... awesome. Was stood in Beech Road pretty much level with Biggins when he looped that ball in.. Feels really strange watching those highlights after all this time...

 

[rambler]

I was in my usual place in the far right of the right side London Road.
Great night

 

[Peterdev]

What a cross from Hebberd

 

[Yellowlab]

I went to all three games. After the draw at The Manor no-one gave us much chance in the replay BUT after that second draw I just knew we'd get through. The mid-week cup games under the lights in that era were just something else, never to be repeated. Undoubtedly the best time to be an Oxford fan.

 

[Yellowlab]

I was in the Osler about level with the edge of the penalty area, can still see that goal now. The ball just seemed to hang for an age before dropping into the goal.

Me too, started off in the corner of the Cuckoo Lane with the Man U fans as it was the only ticket I could get. There were quite a few other Oxford there too. Got taken out by the police and put into the Ostler Road. Probably for the best!

 

[Pgyellow]

I too went to all 3 games, travelling on the London Road coach and missing school to go to the away game. The feeling in that era has only been replicated in the latest promotion year. Carlisle away came very close.

 

[Belgium Yellow]

I remember falling asleep and missing it on TV that night.

 

[uptheus]

What a cross from Hebberd

Brock

 

[Oldham]

Brockys free kick at Old Trafford took some beating too, but as said earlier it was a wonderful time to be an oxford fan

 

[outsidethebox]

London Road packed to the rafters - a sight to behold and a sound to savour. How on earth can you create that at the wind tunnel?

 

[McVicar]

Brockys free kick at Old Trafford took some beating too, but as said earlier it was a wonderful time to be an oxford fan

I'll never forget that feeling of almost disbelief when the 'Brockbuster' hit the net.

 

[mcf86]

Came over all emotional watching that, was in the packed London road where the atmosphere was, as they say, electric!!

 

[Scotchegg]

The first year I started going. My Dad worked Saturdays so my first game was against Newcastle. It was rammed in the Beech Rd so my Dad lifted us on to the pitch and we walked around the ground to go in the top corner of the Cockoo Lane/Osler Road! Had no idea that this wasn't the sort of thing people did!!! Got spat at by Newcastle fans but squirted a tomato sauce bottle through the fence to get our own back!!!

Went to the Leeds game and sat in the Beech Road, randomly next to Ian Botham!!! Got chased down Headington hill by a load of Leeds fans after the game who had smashed the back window out of their coach.

Then we missed the first Man Utd game but went to the second replay and could barely see as we were again crammed into the Beech Road. What I remember most was being so excited after getting the winner but feeling how anxious everyone was around.

It honestly felt like we would never lose and as I missed the Everton game, I maintained a 100% record until we were in Div 1!!!

Sadly those days are gone and defeat has become far too common - but it is those experiences that keep me coming back no matter how bad we are!!!!

 

[christenedinjericho]

Could sit here forever reminiscing about the LRT and its iconic status it had. Weirdly though being a younger LRT supporter at the time I sort of loved it when the moat was built as it somehow elevated my parochial league club into a ground that other football league clubs and their fans sort of feared visiting. The ground even when only half full could make many opposing players fear on simply just retrieving the ball or on taking a corner from the close-fitting mish-mass of stands. This was ol' school at its best.

Going back before the moat was built the LRT was a real sight line of beauty when this terrace was full and I was lucky enough to see this stand packed to the rafters for some really big games when there were gates of 12/13/14/15/16/17 and on a few lucky occasions, an extraordinary 18k that somehow squeezed into the Manor.

I remember lots of times climbing onto mesh at the back of the LRT terrace and seeing what seemed like thousands upon thousands of heads and hands punching the air and clapping and generally just really giving their all for the team. This was the LRT. This was my life. This was OUFC.

However, a period that also held some great memories for me was when for an unknown length of time a large group of us squeezed along the Osler Road stand through the Gestapo gate and onto the open end of the Osler Road terrace to give the club a bouncing 100 to 150 'young buck' fans backing the club I thought fantastically during some of the great mid-eighties games....and of course giving it large to the away supporters in the CLT.

The Biggins goal against Man Utd was perhaps the highlight for me standing on this part of this crumbling terrace as it was especially special seeing one or twenty- two local-ish Man Utd 'supporters' within there terrace well and truly pissed off big time. This was my club and I suppose this was my time as well......

I can also say that from talking to one or two of the players from that era that they certainly enjoyed the backing they got from this little bit of terrace during this magnificent era.

I'm still hanging on in there supporting the U's and was there again yesterday (Gillingham) after saying b*****s a few times after the Wigan match but I'd like to personally say thanks to the many young geezers and girl geezeretters who might just be reading this ol' geezers tales (and possibly groaning a little for the reminiscing and for that I apologise) for continuing to support this great club of ours and hopefully their future children will also be bought into the fold so that OUFC lives on forever. It is a hard choice committing support to a club at times but I'm sure there are some decent times ahead and that I only wish the fans had from the club just a little bit more information given at times.