Eric Blair
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I note that 'Arry had made a quick exit!"There was an inevitability of further fury after full-time, the lasting image of the night being that of a now shirtless Gattuso forehead to forehead with Jordan, who had, ominously, removed his glasses".
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So whilst there's never a game that I don't want us to win, and whilst I would maniacally celebrate a promotion......there's also a piece of me that thinks that I probably wouldn't enjoy other steps of the football pyramid as much as I enjoy this one (with Oxford in the Premier League being the ultimate achievement and my worst footballing nightmare simultaneously!). And therefore I will admit that I am much more likely to shrug and say 'Oh well' if we fail to get promoted than the OP might like.
...or on a similar note from the late 70s...Joe Jordan reminds me of the age old (trick) pub quiz question...
Name two players to play for Scotland at the 1982 World Cup, one from The Middle East and one from South America...
(Alan Brazil, obvs).
Luton fans seem to be enjoying it, mind you they still have their lower league ground and play by kicking the ball down the hill and racing after itI feel exactly the same way. When I think about it too long my brain starts to shutdown. How can something be a brilliant achievement and then absolutely awful at the same time? And if that's the case what is the point of it all? I then get filled with existential angst and everything becomes pointless. It's something I haven't managed to think my way out of yet.
Never did George Lawrence any harm.play by kicking the ball down the hill and racing after it
I have a soft spot for Kenilworth RdLuton fans seem to be enjoying it, mind you they still have their lower league ground and play by kicking the ball down the hill and racing after it
I watched the majority of the Pep documentary last night and it was interesting to note that at virtually every club he managed, they started poorly with many fans expressing frustration and a general air of wtf is he playing at??...before it all clicked into place and the right personnel to play the desired way were brought in with the right support staff to make it happen.
It happened at Barca, Bayern and Man City.
OK, this is only League 1 and we're only little Oxford....and we've only got a limited supply of League 1 standard players to call on, but just goes to prove that everyone thinks genius is crazy before they realise it's genius,![]()
If I wanted to see my team hassling the referee, doing niggly fouls, winning cheap free-kicks, winding up opposition players, then I would go and watch Wycombe. You can win games of football without resorting to this, if you get your tactics right.
A different ref - like the one we had against Port Vale say - and they have had nine players on the pitch at the end of the gameAre you seriously suggesting that the concept of holding onto a win by using legitimate tactics isn't 'based on realism'...?
Earlier this week we saw Barnsley employ the dark arts against us to hang on to a win. Any momentum we tried to build was quickly shut down through a bit of time wasting, them knowing how to win cheap free-kicks etc. Are you suggesting Barnsley are set up to be 'anti-football'? Those tactics aren't some video game fantasy - they're deployed by all teams (other than us) when the time calls for it.