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Oxblogger: Shirt changed

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A blog about Oxford United. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Football fans seem to suffer from acute attention deficit disorder; during the season each Saturday, regardless of previous results, fans wake up ‘buzzing’ for the day ahead. You can be 10 points adrift at the bottom of the table without a win in 15 games, but it’s Saturday and Saturday is FOOTBALL DAY. Ultimately, the kit doesn’t define the year, the year defines the kit. The 1986 ‘classic’ is a classic because of Wembley, as is ...Eales Up Inside Ya!

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Oxblogger: Austrian epiphany?

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A blog about Oxford United. Saturday, July 18, 2015. In 701bc, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, laid siege to the city of Jerusalem. During one night, with the city on the verge of collapse, the angel of YHWM descended and brought death to 185,000 Assyrian soldiers saving the city. The internet played an important role; so much of it was reported in real time through social media. Many of those who attended are prominent on Twitter; they knew each other, but at the same time didn't. I knew them, alt...Match...

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Oxblogger: Season preview: And now... The Football

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A blog about Oxford United. Thursday, August 06, 2015. Season preview: And now. The Football. Amidst a blizzard of announcements, improvements and launches, Mark Ashton’s assertion that he was creating an ‘no-excuse environment’. At Oxford United was a little lost in the noise. This is classic Ashton management-speak but for me it is slightly different to talking about 'DNAs' and getting unknown executives to write options papers about smoking around the ground; this time it means something. The bookies ...

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Oxblogger: About Oxblogger

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A blog about Oxford United. Oxblogger is a blog about Oxford United. It doesn't do match reports, if you need to know who scored what, when and how then I recommend that you read Rage Online. Or the Official Oxford United Website. It is not authoritative, comprehensive or consistent, it is entirely personal; which is just how a blog should be, in my view. This was inspired by Arseblog. This blog suffered; writing became a chore, the posts became long, repetitive and self-indulgent. I want to get to 1...

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Oxblogger: Time to back Appleton (if we have the choice)

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A blog about Oxford United. Wednesday, May 06, 2015. Time to back Appleton (if we have the choice). I was standing in my local Costa on Friday picking up a coffee and who should be standing in front of me? But, if we’ve turned the corner, then it’s only to the point of where we ended last season; the path to real success is remains uncertain. Is our recent form due to a quirk of having stumbled across enough players with enough form to dig us out of the hole we were in? However, if they were to do it now...

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Oxblogger: Close season round up - part 1 - on the field

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A blog about Oxford United. Saturday, June 06, 2015. Close season round up - part 1 - on the field. The signing of Ryan Taylor, then, was a bit of a surprise. In some ways, he is reminder of the risk of getting carried away with all of this. On one hand, he scored 10 goals last year, which is a respectable return at this level and would have proved handy had they been for us. He’s also a strong target man, which is often useful at this level. Of course, one of the challenges is getting the ball to these ...

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Oxblogger: The unforgivable Welsh

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A blog about Oxford United. Saturday, June 27, 2015. To most Oxford fans, the announcement that London Welsh would be packing their leeks and heading back to London was treated in the same way that Channel Islanders probably celebrated driving the Nazis out of Jersey in 1945. To a tiny minority, there was bemusement at the level of vitriol, particularly amongst Welsh fans. So why were Oxford fans so vehemently against the Exiles? The point stands, however, basically London Welsh was never going to work w...

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Oxblogger: Book reviews

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A blog about Oxford United. From time to time, I read books about Oxford United. And then I write what I think about them. Rags to Riches, The Rise and Rise of Oxford United. Robert Maxwell and John Ley (1985). Oxford United - A Complete Record, 1893-1989, Andy Howland and Roger Howland (1989). Oxford United Football Club (Archive Photographs), (1998). Oxford United - The Headington Years, Andy Howland and Roget Howland (2001). Oxford United - The Complete Record. Still Crazy, Joe Kinnear (2013). The Boy...

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Oxblogger: Ryan Clarke passes into legend

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A blog about Oxford United. Thursday, July 02, 2015. Ryan Clarke passes into legend. And then there was one. Every great team has a great spine; Whitehead, Elliot and Gilchrist, Smith and Grey, Moody. Judge, Shotton and Briggs, Houghton and Hebberd, Aldridge. You can add to that Clarke, Creighton and Wright, Bulman and Murray, Constable. But, Clarke stands out. In an ideal world, I was hoping he would never leave. Maybe I hoped he would become part of some gargantuan backroom staff, a stockpile o...Sadly...