Manor Memories

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Remembering the good and not so good days at our spiritual home. We had some great days and nights there over the years, Rambo treading on Fashanu’s fingers, beating the Man Utd team in the 70s, the great cup games under lights. Post your Manor Memories here...
 
Can't remember who we were playing but a centre-half kept fouling Johnny Durnin which not having the longest fuse was going to get a response (probably the intention). What was amusing was he checked that the Lino and Ref weren't looking and did a couple of rabbit punches to the centre-half. The Ref looked non-plussed at the opposition player on the ground as JD walked away as though nothing had happened, while the London Road was chanting "Ooh Johnny Lager".

The epic 5-5 draw with Pompey. The celebration when the 5th goal went in was joyous.

Les Phillips winning goal Vs Everton in our 1st season in the top flight. Being midweek, they were generally special then but that atmosphere was electric. For me that was when I believed we would stay up for sure.
 
Preseason friendly against Birmingham I think. Probably 95 or 96ish. A young lady took her top off and 'invaded' the pitch to much amusement. Let the goalie have a good feel too.
 
I'm going to enjoy this thread, so many memories on and off the pitch.
My first, as a 12 year old, my first ever pro game 16/09/1972 v Millwall.
Won 2-1 with a debut goal from Hugh Curran, the other from Nigel Cassidy.
Burton
Lucas
Shuker
Roberts
Clarke C
Evanson
Sloan
Skeen
Curran
Cassidy
Aylott S

Sub Bray

Hooked straight away...... more to come, some good some great and some not so good ?
 
Although it ended in tears eventually, I got quite emotional when Malcom Shottln was unveiled as the new manager to the fans.

Is my memory playing tricks or did they play Welcome Home as he applauded the fans?

Seem to remember us winning his first game 1-0 and then going on to stay up. Went pear shaped in the following season but he’s still a club legend.

I was born in 84 by the way, so never even saw him play!
 
Always remember the back wall of the left side of the London Road was an unofficial urinal :LOL:
 
Singing ‘do I not like that’ to ex england manager Graham Taylor as we destroyed his Wolves team 4-0.

Joey repaying the scum fans by scoring our third in his first game v them since his departure.

Strangely, I fondly remember beating Millwall 1-0 in an FA cup replay sometime in the mid 90s

Oh, and the playoff semi v Rushden
 
Singing ‘do I not like that’ to ex england manager Graham Taylor as we destroyed his Wolves team 4-0.

Joey repaying the scum fans by scoring our third in his first game v them since his departure.

Strangely, I fondly remember beating Millwall 1-0 in an FA cup replay sometime in the mid 90s

Oh, and the playoff semi v Rushden

Thick fog, Stuart Massey winner. Did enjoy that Millwall game too despite it being relatively innocuous.
 
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The old scoreboard in April 1973 but when was it installed?
 
Singing ‘do I not like that’ to ex england manager Graham Taylor as we destroyed his Wolves team 4-0.

Joey repaying the scum fans by scoring our third in his first game v them since his departure.

Strangely, I fondly remember beating Millwall 1-0 in an FA cup replay sometime in the mid 90s

Oh, and the playoff semi v Rushden
Play off v Rushden won't have been at the manor
 
Singing ‘do I not like that’ to ex england manager Graham Taylor as we destroyed his Wolves team 4-0.

Other songs I remember "Good films, s**t team" to Vinnie Jones, think he was QPR no.2, and "7 seconds, it only took 7 seconds" to Stuart Pearce playing for Forest not long after his mistake v San Marino.
 
Other songs I remember "Good films, s**t team" to Vinnie Jones, think he was QPR no.2, and "7 seconds, it only took 7 seconds" to Stuart Pearce playing for Forest not long after his mistake v San Marino.

Remember Barry Fry always got personalised chants aimed at him.

Also the pisstake opposition goalies used to get. Steve Cherry with Notts Co always used to play along entertainingly. Whereas Eric Nixon, when we always seemed to play Tranmere in cups and the league, generally reacted negatively which made it worse for him and more fun for us.
 
Gary Briggs testimonial,Swindon !!
You have(or at least you had to) pay for the Police at unofficial games.
So about a dozen OB at the game to keep costs down.
Swindon coming out of the Cuckoo lane after the game,confronted by about 300 Oxford,OB ushered them back in and shut the gates.

Swindon 5-0 1982,Chicken George's finest hour,ran them ragged.
 
Soooo many memories of the Manor days .... here's a few of mine from way back in the mists of time....

from my very first home game there on a bank holiday monday in the first season after the ( vehemently opposed by 'City) name change from Headington to Oxford United against Bath City ..... we lost (1-3 I think? ), after beating them at their place on the good friday a few days before.ad
Watched that one from the Beech Road wooden seats

Walking to and home from The Manor and going to games with me dad, invariably stopping to buy the Green Mail (on a saturday) on the way home off a chap at Green Road roundabout..... my Dad's still a ST holder (SS Lower)..... my dad had a habit (still does even 'today') of sharing a sweet every time the U's scored....... after our record home league win v Barrow ( 7-0 I think? ....we scored 7 in that one for sure) the sugar rush I had mustve seen me bouncing off the walls for hours after the game!
Watched that game from the Osler Road terrace near the kiosk (which was in the corner, under the floodlight pylon, close to the to the Cuckoo Lane turnstiles)

THAT historic and record setting FA Cup run, where then high flying Blackburn rovers, in the old First division were deservedly beaten 3-1 by then old 4th division (mid table) Oxford United, watched that game from a temporary scaffolding terrace on the Beech road, close to the London Road end, couldnt see much of the game that day, so amused myself by kicking a bent nail in the scaffolding plank I was standing on.
Was on the same section of temporary terracing for the FA Cup 1/4 final at the manor v Preston North End, albeit with a better view than the Blackburn cup tie, which we lost , albeit by the input or lack of from an incompetent referee not aux fait with the then, relatively new offside rule, (inconsistant & incompetent referees are nothing new!)..... grainy b/w footage of that game shows both Preston goals were at the very least questionably offside!

First league home game V scum , on a bank hol monday, it was absiolutely packed everywhere at the Manor..... went with my Uncle Roger (who is a North Stand ST holder these days) and watched that from what was briefly known as the boys stand, a raised terrace at the side of the Cuckoo Lane.

As I graduated from anklebiter to young teenager, Id
started going to home games with mates, and the London Road end was my prefered terrace. My younger sister had been going to home games with my Dad (she still does a few home games a season, my middle nephew goes to pretty much every home game with my Dad, my nephew is also a ST holder in SS Lower), she had been badgering him into taking her into the London Road end.... the one (and only) time that happened was the home FACup match v Watford, when in explicably BOTH teams played in changed kits (if memory serves we were in blue and white, they were in red and white ? ) ....match ended in a draw, but more memorable that game was when the London Road end wall collapsed. My sister was sitting on the wall when it gave way!.... her first and only time in the London Road end
 
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We had the best groundsman of the lot at the manor, Mick Moores had that pitch near on perfect!
 
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