Oxford United v. Leyton Orient [R]

[DoctorK]

Twenty-five minutes left and this is an amazing match!!!

2-2 and an unbelievable nail-biter. :eek:

Anyone else on BS listening???

Would be a shame for the U's to drop out of the League after 44 years... Come on you Yellows!!!!

[DoctorK]

Lee Steele of all people...

A thriller, but no League football at the Kassam next season. :(

[Maczebus]

Well, well.
Bye Bye Oxford Utd.

I've had it in for them ever since they thrashed QPR in the League Cup final in 1986.
Our moment of glory and we lost 3-0. 3-0 to a team that's just fallen out of the league, my how times have changed. I know QPR aren't setting the world alight right now but hell, I'd rather be in our position.

[DoctorK]

Last Premier match I saw at Loftus Road was Fulham-Arsenal. :p

Some really lousy calls went Oriental. Good luck for them on promotion, but the U's out of the League bites.

[RichardL]

A rather strange ending - news filtered through of Northampton's equaliser at Grimsby, meaning Orient were almost certainly up, and while their fans were still jumping up and celebrating that news, they popped in the third goal.

Oxford's chance all but went when one of their guys got sent off for headbutting an Orient player off the ball.

I think Oxford will bounce back though, and it could turn out to be one of those relegations that does a club a lot of good.

[Hazzathewazza]

A rather strange ending - news filtered through of Northampton's equaliser at Grimsby, meaning Orient were almost certainly up, and while their fans were still jumping up and celebrating that news, they popped in the third goal.

Oxford's chance all but went when one of their guys got sent off for headbutting an Orient player off the ball.

I think Oxford will bounce back though, and it could turn out to be one of those relegations that does a club a lot of good.

I bet your glad you didnt merge with them now!!!!
They were gonna be called Thames Valley Royals or something like that wasnt it?
Just goes to show what a good chairman can do. 10 years ago there wasnt much difference between Oxford and Reading and now look at them!!

[RichardL]

I bet your glad you didnt merge with them now!!!!
They were gonna be called Thames Valley Royals or something like that wasnt it?
Just goes to show what a good chairman can do. 10 years ago there wasnt much difference between Oxford and Reading and now look at them!!
Oddly enough it was the merger talk which first sparked an interest in the club. I lived about 10 miles away, and in an era of virtually zero lower division coverage, I knew nothing about the club beyond their weekly appearance on the pools coupon. I took me another 4 years to find out where the ground was, what with it being well before the days when you could look up such things on the internet.


Knowing how Maxwell operated it would have been a merger in name only. He'd have just sold Elm Park and kept the money. The name might have changed, but beyond that I doubt he'd have ever got round to building the proposed new stadium in Didcot (the town where I was born, which also piqued my interest in the whole affair) and the new club would have just stayed at the Manor. Oxford went up that season, and Reading went down to the 4th division, but they were apparently united in getting all four sides of the Manor singing F*** off Maxwell at a fixture twoards the end of the season.

[Hazzathewazza]

Oddly enough it was the merger talk which first sparked an interest in the club. I lived about 10 miles away, and in an era of virtually zero lower division coverage, I knew nothing about the club beyond their weekly appearance on the pools coupon. I took me another 4 years to find out where the ground was, what with it being well before the days when you could look up such things on the internet.


Knowing how Maxwell operated it would have been a merger in name only. He'd have just sold Elm Park and kept the money. The name might have changed, but beyond that I doubt he'd have ever got round to building the proposed new stadium in Didcot (the town where I was born, which also piqued my interest in the whole affair) and the new club would have just stayed at the Manor. Oxford went up that season, and Reading went down to the 4th division, but they were apparently united in getting all four sides of the Manor singing F*** off Maxwell at a fixture twoards the end of the season.

Yeah I suppose didcot is inbetween Oxford and Reading. I remember watching Reading V Oxford at Elm Park a couple of times, and at the manor, as both of them are my local teams (i live in Wantage). I remember seeing some great games at the manor ground in the early nineties.
Its a shame that Oxford and Swindon are doing so badly. I cant understand why Oxford are doing so bad. There is a large catchment area there and if they became half successful they could attract large gates (like Reading)

[mrtandy]

Oxford's chance all but went when one of their guys got sent off for headbutting an Orient player off the ball.

Wilmott got sent of for retaliation after he got headbutted, the player who butted him only got a booking. That and the decision not to give an obvious penalty when the score was still 2-2 did not make the man in black to popular. Not that I'm bitter...

There is a fairly good Team in Didcot. Didcot Town won the FA Vase last Season and the Hellenic League this Season, along with a couple of minor Cup competitions. They will be playing Southern League football next Season.