General OUFC rivals

[willgreen]

Bit of a random one but who do you consider our biggest rivals?
As a young exile, I'm interested to see which clubs are seen as rivals by other forum users. Setting aside Sw*ndon, I think there's a fair bit of debate to be had about which clubs are also rivals of Oxford, although there is a degree of personal preference - I personally really hate Bristol Rovers for some reason that I haven't worked out yet.

 

[Malc]

Liverpool and QPR to start the ball rolling.

 

[brassmonkey]

Reading.

 

[EastStandKieran]

Wycombe ?

 

[RussianYellow]

Luton ?

 

[SteMerritt]

Would have been a shorter thread to list the teams we like ?

 

[Sarge]

Reading, Luton, Orient, Watford, Qpr

 

[Discoland]

Real: Scum, plastics, Orient

Special mentions to Bristol Rovers, Liverpool and Wycombe

 

[MJB]

For me our proper rivals are Swindon.

Local teams who aren’t real rivals but who are close and therefore there is a tiny amount of spice: Reading and Wycombe

Teams with whom there has been a bit of tame rivalry in recent years: Luton, Northampton and Bristol Rovers.

The only answer is Swindon for me though. I know Reading will get raised but aside from seeing us lose to them at Elm Park in around 97 under a shower of beer bottles, they just haven’t been in our orbit for so long and have become a very sanitised version of their former selves.

 

[Sarge]

Reading, Luton, Orient, Watford, Qpr

add Gasss, ...the Bindippers ( I'll never forgive or forget THEM for costing us our place in Europe club football), Millwall, Cardiff, , Leeds, Brentford, Pompey

close distance, but not rivals Wycombe, Northampton, MK

over and above all others of course is Sw*nd*n

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

Reading, first away game FACup 83 at Elm Park.
Brighton/Pompey/Luton

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

Swindon only real rivals

Disliked teams Wycombe, Reading, Luton

 

[Witneyoldfella]

Has to be Scumdon

 

[Followtheox1]

Swindon obviously but Reading are not that far behind for me. I have a strong dislike for Chelsea too. Locally I don't mind Wycombe doing well.

 

[My Manor]

90 other league clubs I really dislike, until recently there was 91......

 

[battman]

The OP was asking about rivals, not clubs that you don't like, I'm not sure we have a rivalry with either Liverpool or Chelsea just yet (despite that 'penalty').

For me, it has to be Swindon 100%. We haven't played Reading for 15 years, the last time being in 2004, so I have no memory of ever playing them, but of course the Thames Valley Royals debacle will be at the forefront of many minds.

In terms of smaller rivalries, Wycombe like to pretend they're one, and because we've played them a lot in recent years and are quite close in proximity, Northampton and Luton have to be up there. Probably Bristol Rovers too because of the regularity of games and the Matty Taylor saga.

 

[Notaswindonfan]

Leicester City but that’s going back a good few years but can remember it being a bit tasty at the time.

 

[Big Ronaldo]

Besides The Scum, Reading are for me the only real rivals separated only by the fact that we haven’t crossed paths with them in ages.

No-one who was there will forget Orient and their disrespect.
Not rivals but hated just the same.
Noughtampton and Whycome are not rivals. Whatever they think about it.

 

[Pompeyyellows]

After Scum it has to be Pompey. We seem to follow each other around the leagues. Would of said Reading but we never play them. Even miss them next season as they get relegated and we get promoted.

 

[Junior_1]

For me our proper rivals are Swindon.

Local teams who aren’t real rivals but who are close and therefore there is a tiny amount of spice: Reading.

Guess I if you must be around 18-24?

Aren’t real rivals and a tiny bit of spice??

I only did Elm pen a few times and it was nasty. They always wanted to fight back, unlike those 6 fingered wankers down the road. They always had a little go at home too. Not to mention the one trip to the breeze block.

 

[willgreen]

i suppose the question to ask now is: is there anyone who doesn't see Sw*ndon as our main rival?

 

[OX14]

Swindon are the only rival to me. Living in faringdon in my teens where it seemed like I was the only Oxford fan. They were always in the league above us so they always had the bragging rights. I still have family living there and work there occasionally and from what I can see it has changed and there is less of a presence of Swindon fans.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Reading. It’s utter nonsense that we don’t really exist to each other anymore etc. That was NASTY, and as has been said, they actually fought back. I can’t ever hear that Reading isn’t really a thing - it’s bitter. If we end up in the same division in the next couple of years I think people will be blown away by the animosity, especially at our place where the fans are so close together versus theirs.

 

[Marked Ox]

Swindon is the main one. Reading although that has been on the backburner. (the win with goals from Matt Murphy and Rob Folland was lovely).

Luton and Pompey as they can get a bit testy but I wouldn't call them rivals though, just games with more interest than somebody like Scunthorpe (often because of large crowds).

Bristol Rovers doesn't register for me other than as an away fan it was relatively close. It only gets mentioned as it is close enough for the pavement dancers to have a disco with the Police chaperoning.

Somebody mentioned Leicester, I can remember those games always being a bit feisty back in the day. It may have been an East Midlands thing (as the Derby lot seemed keen as well) but we always seemed to get coined there.

 

[Ox4Eva]

Reading, swine, Luton, QPR, Brighton for me!

 

[Ox4Eva]

Reading. It’s utter nonsense that we don’t really exist to each other anymore etc. That was NASTY, and as has been said, they actually fought back. I can’t ever hear that Reading isn’t really a thing - it’s bitter. If we end up in the same division in the next couple of years I think people will be blown away by the animosity, especially at our place where the fans are so close together versus theirs.

Reading was pure hatred and it's just that we have been in different leagues for so long. If we played more regular people would soon realise how bitter that rivalry is..

 

[Sarge]

Reading was pure hatred and it's just that we have been in different leagues for so long. If we played more regular people would soon realise how bitter that rivalry is..

second only to Sw*nd*n .... and a close second at that

 

[uptheus]

Reading

 

[Oldham]

Scum all day long Bradley, followed by Reading, QPR and Pompey.
Not rivals as such but special hatred for Orient and the Mickeys.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

Swindon
Reading
Luton, Bristol Rovers, QPR