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Home Match Thread Best games after 25 years at the Kassam

holdsteady said:
The Norwich 2 nil win first game back in the Championship, the Swindon win where we went down to ten men, Swansea in the FA cup, hammering West Ham in the league cup.
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Edit I don’t know if you missed any of those they as not got round to watching yet but they are my favourites off the top of my head.
 
A couple that won't get mentioned;

Stevenage in 2016. 1-1 draw but down to ten with Lundstram sent off, Sercombe burst into the area and put us 1 up. The celebrations were immense and a game where I think the tide turned and we knew we could go up.

Same for Peterborough 5-0 in 2024, an unbelievable team performance.

Wycombe in 2019, Ruffels with a last minute screamer at a time where we really looked like relegation candidates.

MK Dons in 2022, giving us a shout of the play offs (short lived) but also ruining MK's automatic hopes.

2-0 v Luton in 2009, a moody atmosphere and Jamie Cook sticking it top bins

Rushden play offs 2010

Cambridge 2022 is my personal favourite for all the wrong reasons though, the Joey game and everything surrounding it - Robinson walking around the pitch at the end with Joey's daughters will stick with me forever.
 
My personal favourite was definitely the 5-0 against Peterborough. The best overall team performance we've seen in this ground and such an impressive result.

The Swansea 3-2 was such a huge result at the time that sent shockwaves through English football. It was also a thoroughly entertaining game with some great goals.

Beating West Ham 4-1 was also a huge night especially after they beat Man Utd 2-1 a few days prior.

In terms of the dark days, coming back to beat Histon 2-1 was memorable as was the 2-0 Luton win which was the biggest fixture in conference history at the time. There was also a game where James Constable scored in the 95th minute against Wrexham to keep our playoff hopes alive and the stadium went bonkers. We will also never forget Mark Creighton against York which was famously photographed.

The Newcastle 3-2 defeat was also a thrilling night and Nathan Holland's equaliser was pure mayhem. Kinda mad that we've seen Man City twice and Arsenal also up here.

First season of the Kassam we also beat Halifax 6-1 which was a good result after a terrible start.

Another underrated game was the 3-3 v Coventry when Dabo scored two own goals!

Also who could forget the 6-3 against Eastbourne!
 
One of the games that sticks out most for me in the early years at the kassam was the Tom Craddock last gasp 2-1 win over unbeaten Port Vale. The scenes at the end!

Then obviously all the wins over Swindon. The Rushden play off game when it seemed just too easy. The 6-3 over Eastbourne. The 2-0 game v Luton. As mentioned, Swansea, West Ham, Newcastle (both games), the Wycombe promotion game, the 5-0 Peterborough game, the Peterborough play off game, the 2024/25 wins over Norwich and Sunderland, last season's wins over Ipswich and Southampton.

And lots, lots more (including that end of season game against Burton that took us into the play offs)
 
Boring correction alert from me.

In 2009-10, the Luton game was the highest league attendance of the season at 10,613 (I have memories of it being cited as part of England's 2018 World Cup bid). A larger attendance was expected for the visit of Rushden & Diamonds on Boxing Day but the game was infamously postponed.

Let's just say Wilder and Kelvin Thomas weren't happy with the stadium company about it ...

BBC Sport - Football - Oxford P-P Rushden

news.bbc.co.uk news.bbc.co.uk

Rushden got a revenge on us in some ways by postponing their game against us for New Year's Day despite saying it was on at 12pm. A hungover @OnlyOneUnited turned green in the car due to housewives' favourite Henry Moeran's erratic driving ;).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/8423534.stm

We did eventually secure our highest attendance of the season in the playoff semi final with 11,963 there to see us beat none other than Rushden & Diamonds!
 
Probably recency bias, but the 2 Peterborough games do stick out - performances, results, sunshine, balloons and that connection under Des that felt so special at the time.

Swansea cup game, Swindon games, that Luton game had needle and a classic goal, the York turnaround...
 
unification said:
Boring correction alert from me.

In 2009-10, the Luton game was the highest league attendance of the season at 10,613 (I have memories of it being cited as part of England's 2018 World Cup bid). A larger attendance was expected for the visit of Rushden & Diamonds on Boxing Day but the game was infamously postponed.

Let's just say Wilder and Kelvin Thomas weren't happy with the stadium company about it ...

BBC Sport - Football - Oxford P-P Rushden

news.bbc.co.uk news.bbc.co.uk

Rushden got a revenge on us in some ways by postponing their game against us for New Year's Day despite saying it was on at 12pm. A hungover @OnlyOneUnited turned green in the car due to housewives' favourite Henry Moeran's erratic driving ;).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/8423534.stm

We did eventually secure our highest attendance of the season in the playoff semi final with 11,963 there to see us beat none other than Rushden & Diamonds!
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Shudder, had driven down from York that morning. Walked around the ground in the winter sun, eating turkey sandwiches (obviously) and looked through an open gate to see the youth team pouring bowls and kettles full of boiling water on to an area in front of the dug outs whilst others ran up and down on the frozen surface to try and get it to ease. Postponement announcement came not long after and back to York we drove.

York's home game that day went ahead despite there being a load of snow/ice and still freezing temperatures as we navigated our way out of North Yorkshire early that morning.
 
Boris said:
One of the games that sticks out most for me in the early years at the kassam was the Tom Craddock last gasp 2-1 win over unbeaten Port Vale. The scenes at the end!

Then obviously all the wins over Swindon. The Rushden play off game when it seemed just too easy. The 6-3 over Eastbourne. The 2-0 game v Luton. As mentioned, Swansea, West Ham, Newcastle (both games), the Wycombe promotion game, the 5-0 Peterborough game, the Peterborough play off game, the 2024/25 wins over Norwich and Sunderland, last season's wins over Ipswich and Southampton.

And lots, lots more (including that end of season game against Burton that took us into the play offs)
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Oooh yeah, great shout. Port Vale fans invading the pitch after equalising (?) only for us to nick it at the end.
 
Boris said:
One of the games that sticks out most for me in the early years at the kassam was the Tom Craddock last gasp 2-1 win over unbeaten Port Vale. The scenes at the end!
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Yeah, I believe Vale were top of the league, and had equalised just before Craddock's winner. It's one I'll always remember too.

Weirdest has to be that win over relegation rivals Bradford with the Mackie goal that took ages to be confirmed. Like VAR but far more surreal.
 
Boris said:
One of the games that sticks out most for me in the early years at the kassam was the Tom Craddock last gasp 2-1 win over unbeaten Port Vale. The scenes at the end!
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The OUFC website had a photo of Craddock scoring that goal as its banner image for a while, I seem to recall.
Yemi-God said:
2-1 at home against York City on the opening day of our promotion season.
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Speaking of great photos!
goal_v_York_for_Twitter_compressed_Original.webp
 
I remember one game, possibly against Doncaster where we came back from 3-0 down to I think draw 3-3 (or did we nick it 4-3?) and just thinking of those idiots that left in a huff at half time...
 
mooro said:
I remember one game, possibly against Doncaster where we came back from 3-0 down to I think draw 3-3 (or did we nick it 4-3?) and just thinking of those idiots that left in a huff at half time...
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Deffo wasn't Doncaster: https://rageonline.co.uk/mainpage/opponent/26/

EDIT: and the only time we've come from 3-0 to win 4-3 was Ipswich in the top flight which, if memory serves, wasn't at the Kas
 
mooro said:
I remember one game, possibly against Doncaster where we came back from 3-0 down to I think draw 3-3 (or did we nick it 4-3?) and just thinking of those idiots that left in a huff at half time...
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Only time that's happened at the Kassam was when we played Torquay and it was them that came from 3-0 down to draw 3-3.
 
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