[93] The play-offs continued as normal, where United faced Portsmouth in the semi-final. It is consistently voted the worst ground in the country by away supporters who are kept behind anachronistic fences, but home fans will certainly miss the place when the time comes to leave. 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Martin Brodetsky, co-editor of Oxford fanzine Rage On, introduces us to his club. Between 1972 and 1980, the crest became circular, showing just the ox's head on a yellow and black background. United's last game was an abject capitulation at Peterborough, where the U's went down 4-2 despite, or possibly because of, taking a 19th-minute lead through Matt Murphy. Oxford Is Bigger and Livelier; Cambridge Is Smaller and Quieter This time it is an adjacent landowner who has been given leave to seek a judicial review into the granting of planning permission for a multiplex cinema in the leisure complex adjacent to the stadium, and on which the ground is dependent for funding. League One. However, Oxford was unable thereby to enter the 1987 UEFA Cup because of the UEFA ban on English clubs in European competitions. Whilst most United supporters are resigned to relegation this season, the pill will be sweetened immensely if we are joined in the Third Division by our local rivals. Jim Smith would have managed the club and been assisted by Reading boss Maurice Evans. [24] Maxwell also threatened to fold the club if the merger did not go through. On Boxing Day 2006, a crowd of 11,065 watched United draw 0–0 with Woking at the Kassam Stadium, the largest-ever attendance for a Conference match (excluding play-offs). in the Preliminary Round, ending in an 8–2 defeat for Headington. In 1960, Headington United was renamed Oxford United, to give the club a higher profile. [5] A football team was a way for the cricketers of Headington Cricket Club to maintain their fitness during the winter break. [110] The yellow kit was first worn during the 1957–58 season, with black shorts and yellow socks. [78] The 2012–13 season was blighted by injuries and patchy form: after opening the season with three wins and briefly heading the table, United lost their next six games, a pattern of inconsistency that was to continue throughout the season. After an indifferent first season under Appleton, Oxford achieved promotion to League One in his second year in charge, finishing the 2015–16 season in 2nd place with 86 points. Mickey Lewis subsequently became the caretaker manager for a second time for the club. Talbot found little success and was sacked in March 2006, with the club in 22nd place. Founded in 1837, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract. 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Oxford, now in the renamed Football League Division One, briefly restored Maurice Evans as manager, before turning to Bristol City manager Denis Smith. Blackpool 0 0 19:45 Oxford United. [145] In a nine-year spell he led the team to the Southern League title in 1953, as well as the Southern League Cup in 1953 and 1954. [44] Smith's second spell didn't last long, and he was replaced by David Kemp a few weeks into the following campaign. [38] The club had hoped to move into the new stadium near the Blackbird Leys housing estate by the start of the 1998–99 season, but construction was suspended during the preceding season, because construction company Taylor Woodrow had not been paid for the work already undertaken.[39]. The low point, and there are so many to choose from, may be just around the corner as the latest legal challenge to the new ground at Minchery Farm could cause chairman Firoz Kassam finally to throw in the towel and walk away, leaving United to the administrators and, probably, worse. Fair enough, except he has now commenced the same position at Luton Town, just one place above Oxford in the league. Coincidentally, Accrington Stanley, the club whose bankruptcy in 1962 allowed United to be elected into the League, was one of the two clubs promoted to replace them.[57]. Oxford (Headington) and Swindon met a few times in non-competitive fixtures before 1962. For food there is Smart's Fish and Chips close to the ground and not too far away is the Mediterranean Fish Bar. The merger was called off as a result of fans of both clubs protesting against the decision. The first sponsor to appear on the shirt was Sunday Journal, a local newspaper, in 1982. The home sponsor for the 2013–14 season was announced as Animalates, with the away kit being sponsored by Isinglass Consulting for that same season after winning an innovative prize draw. In North America, 13 colonies united to form a nation. [101] The record attendance is 12,243, which was achieved in the final game of the 2005–06 season, when a defeat against Leyton Orient condemned them to relegation from the Football League. Former Liverpool and England defender Mark Wright was given the manager's job, but resigned in late November, after being accused of making racist remarks to referee Joe Ross. The current most popular player at United, and there aren't many popular players to choose from, is local boy Chris Hackett. After four seasons, Oxford returned to League Two in 2010 via the playoffs, and six seasons later achieved promotion to League One, after finishing second in League Two in 2016. Gerry Summers was manager for six years, before being replaced by Mick Brown. In 1921, the club was admitted into the Oxon Senior League. Why it should be the Robins rather than the Biscuitmen is more due to our poor record against the team from the wrong end of the A420 than any logical reason. All programmes are fairly scarce, with the single sheet issued at Swindon being very rare. University of Oxford, English autonomous institution of higher learning at Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, one of the world’s great universities. [5] The facility was used as a cricket pitch in the summer, and a football pitch in the winter. At the end of the 2000–01 season, Oxford were relegated back to the Third Division after a 35-year absence, with 100 goals conceded. Formed in 1893, Oxford United are Oxfordshire's only full time professional football club. So they called themselves “the United States of America”. [102] The average attendance was highest in the Conference in two out of the four years the team spent in the division, with the average in the other two years placing second, behind Exeter City and Cambridge United respectively. However, it is the fact that the U's have only ever won once at the County Ground that means we save up our fervour for a visit to Wiltshire more than anywhere else. [6] The first season included a 9–0 victory, with eight of those goals coming from P. Drewitt. [120] It was the fiftieth supporters trust created under the Supporters' trust banner. [122] A number of songs are sung during home games, such as "Yellow Submarine" (with adapted lyrics) and songs relating to the old Manor Ground. [36] After a long search for a new owner, during which BioMass Recycling Ltd took over the club, Brian Horton was named as Oxford's new manager. [54][55] Merry immediately made changes to the club, including the hiring of former manager Jim Smith in his second spell. [9] United spent two seasons in the Spartan League in 1947 and 1948, finishing fifth and fourth respectively. [112] The Bridle deal ended after the conclusion of the 2012–13 season. [8] The first FA Cup tie played was in 1931, against Hounslow F.C. The earliest match on record was a friendly in the 1950–51 season at Headington. With over 26,000 resident alumni, the United States is home to the The US is Oxford’s largest source of international students and international academic staff. (Other Covid-19 vaccine developers, like … On 21 March 2006, Firoz Kassam sold the club, including its debts, for approximately £2 million to Florida-based businessman Nick Merry, who had played for United's youth team in the mid-1970s. [109] In 1996, the crest had a shield shape and contained the ox's head over the ford, on a yellow background. Oxford's poor form continued into the 1999–2000 season and, with the team in the relegation zone, Shotton resigned in late October. From the section. Being an Oxford United supporter means never having a dull moment as the clubs lurches from crisis to crisis, with the occasional silver lining making its presence known. There are very few players from other teams that the United crowd readily accept, and all the ones who do receive the applause of the London Road end tend to be popular ex-Us. Despite Smith's departure to West Bromwich Albion in December 1997, United finished twelfth the following season under his successor, and former captain, Malcolm Shotton. United finished outside the play-offs for the third consecutive season, but manager Chris Wilder was given a further one-year contract in April 2013. None of this has deterred a hard core of around 4,000 supporters following the club as it languishes at the foot of the Second Division, and it is United's supporters which make the club so special. [12] They initially played in orange and blue shirts, but changed to yellow home shirts for the 1957–58 season. More recently they clubbed together to deliver food parcels to the backroom staff when they had to endure two months without pay, and the independent supporters group FOUL (Fighting for Oxford United's Life) has been instrumental in ensuring the survival of the club during the past two years of City Council hesitation and many other obstacles as the club has struggled to build its new stadium. [37], Denis Smith brought in two strikers who were experienced in the top division: Southampton's Paul Moody and Nottingham Forest's Nigel Jemson. Having purchased the Sandy Lane site, the club developed and played at the Manor Ground between 1925 and 2001. Ron Saunders was in charge for only a dozen games, moving to Norwich City at the end of the 1968–69 season. [50] However, Ian Atkins was sacked in March after agreeing to take charge at rivals Bristol Rovers. Since turning professional, the club has had 25 full-time managers, of whom three (Jim Smith, Denis Smith and Darren Patterson) have had more than one spell in the post, and eleven periods of caretaker-management. Oxford began the next season with a new manager and a new stadium, with the relocation to the Kassam Stadium completed after six years of speculation. [114] In July 2015, Oxford United announced a three season deal with investment management company Liontrust Asset Management covering both home and away shirts. [5] The club's first football match played was against Cowley Barracks. These objectives were expressed in the No Transfer Principle (1811) and the Monroe Doctrine (1823). [137] Despite being the second team in the city, there is less rivalry with Oxford City because of their lower position in the pyramid system (there have been no competitive league matches between the two since 1959).[138]. Matt Murphy also comes in for mass condemnation, although to be fair it's not really his fault that he doesn't have the ability to do the job that is asked of him, namely to play professional football. [89] On 22 January 2018, Clotet was sacked,[90] with the club in 10th place in League One after a home defeat to bottom club Bury. It joined the Football League in 1962 after winning the Southern Football League, reaching the Second Division in 1968. Aldridge was largely responsible for bringing the Glory Years to Oxford in the mid-80s, whilst Elliott single-handedly made a sub-standard United into a decent First-Division team (we were eighth when he was sold to Leicester in December 1996 and narrowly avoided relegation that season). [28] New manager, former chief scout Maurice Evans, had immediate success winning the 1986 League Cup, beating his predecessor's new club in the final. Two successive eighteenth-place finishes followed,[15][16] before promotion to the Third Division was achieved in 1965. The victory was rounded off by a wonderful gesture from the late Maurice Evans, when the United manager sent physio Ken Fish up the steps to collect the winners medal in his place. Like 911 and 411, it helped people reach out … After going ahead, of course. Hackett, 17, only made his home debut in December against Northampton and capped off a defence-destroying performance with an excellent individual goal. [121] The official matchday programme for home games costs £3 and was voted best Conference Premier Programme of the Year for the 2007–08 season. But the reason the university became so famous isn’t simply because it’s a great university. The best pub near the ground is the Butchers Arms, a Fullers pub which is also away-fan friendly (although not to Chelsea fans, after their last visit to the Manor). They also won the Football League Cup, known at the time as the Milk Cup under a sponsorship deal. In the league, their largest win was 7–0 versus Barrow in Division Four. Sam Long and Olamide Shodipo struck from the bench to lift Oxford off the foot of the League One table with a … Oxford United Academy Player and local lad Fenton Tutty, has this week been diagnosed with Leukaemia. Following a 1-1 draw in the first leg. Oxford University is arguably the most renowned university in the world. It’s fair to say that there is one place quite a lot like Oxford. Oxford beat QPR, managed by former United boss Jim Smith, 3-0 to record the highest winning margin at Wembley in the League Cup (to give the tournament its real name). It was later discovered that Llanelli had just one vote fewer than Headington. Anti-COVID spray stalls team's bus on way to win. In 1911 Headington merged with neighbours Headington Quarry, the new club going under the name Headington United. On 25 January 2014, with the club faltering though still in the play-off places, Wilder resigned as manager to take up the reins at relegation-threatened Northampton. Experience [73], The team spent much of the 2011–12 season in or around the playoff places, and achieved the double over rivals (and eventual champions) Swindon Town for the first time since the 1973–74 season. [59] Oxford qualified for the play-offs by finishing second,[60] but lost on penalties in the semi-final to Exeter City. Oxford walk on, through the rain, with another businessman in the boardroom, weaving dreams. Kassam set about completing the unfinished stadium, gaining planning permission for a bowling alley, multiplex cinema and hotel next to the stadium, following a series of legal battles which were eventually all settled. With a huge range of business and commercial partners the club are pleased to announce the launch of their Linked In site. Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson was named as Oxford's new manager, but was unable to prevent relegation to the Second Division. Oxford Utd. When playing as Headington and during the early years of Oxford United, the crest included a full ox crossing the ford, as well as the initials H.U.F.C. [41] Kassam reduced £9 million of the debt to just £900,000, by virtue of a Company Voluntary Arrangement, by which unsecured creditors who were owed over £1,000 were reimbursed with 10p for every pound they were owed. In the 1990s, the Taylor Report was published calling for the improvement of football stadiums. Oxford United Football Club is a professional football club in the city of Oxford, England. American English or United States English is the dialect of the English language spoken in the United States of America.It is different in some ways from other types of English, such as British English.Many types of American English came from local dialects in England. [156] John Aldridge holds the record for most league goals scored in a season in the 1984–85 season, scoring 30. [118][119] OxVox was formed in 2002, to replace the disbanded FOUL group, which broke up after the immediate future of the club was secured. Over the next thirteen years, five managers took charge. The first manager appointed was Harry Thompson in July 1949, soon after the club turned professional. The was used as a large no. [98] Construction work began in the early part of 1997, but was suspended later that year due to the club's financial problems. AstraZeneca-Oxford uses DNA instead, and the DNA is delivered to cells with the help of another virus known as an adenovirus. A 2–1 win over Tranmere Rovers, and a win for Blackburn Rovers over Plymouth Argyle, meant United survived relegation by two points. Supporters of Oxford are still split in their assessment of Kassam: is he an unscrupulous businessman using the club as a tool for a lucrative hotel and leisure complex, or is he a neophyte fan who has ploughed millions into the club with little or no likelihood of recouping his investment? When the season was suspended, Oxford were 3rd in the table, but following an agreement from clubs to end the season early, the U's dropped one place to 4th after the final table was decided under an unweighted points per game system. Oxford replaced him with Argentine Ramón Díaz, who managed the team to a mid-table finish. Oxford United started in 1893 as an amateur club called Headington, a village team known locally as "the boys from over the hill". The atmosphere at the Manor, especially on those midweek cup nights, has always been special and during the eighties the place was justifiably known as Fortress Manor, the home crowd often quoted as being United's special advantage (along with the sloping pitch, of course). It’s the second oldest in the world (allegedly), educator of 28 Nobel Prize winners, and often cited as the best university on the planet. Despite Smith's efforts, Oxford was relegated to Division Two at the end of the 1993–94 season, with just four wins in the last eleven games. That one-year deal with Isinglass was extended for the 2014–15 season, again featuring on the away kits only. [127] United were the best-supported club in the Conference National before Luton Town joined the division,[128][129] and the home match between Oxford and Luton, which drew a crowd of 10,600, was used to highlight the passion for English football during the 2018 World Cup bid. John Scott-Tucker, the vicar at Saint Andrew's Church in Headington, and a local doctor named Robert Hitchings. [citation needed], "Oxford United" redirects here. There was one specific 2-0 defeat at Watford when the team was forced to wear the Hornets' away strip, their own having been left in Oxford, leading to rumours that United had been unable to pay the laundry bill and the club was on the brink of closure. Published. An improved 4th place finished followed in the shortened 2019/20 season, which was affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Marvellous. This version was retained until the move to the Kassam Stadium in 2001, when club steward Rob Alderman designed the current version. Relegation from the top flight in 1988 began an 18-year decline which saw the club relegated to the Conference in 2006, becoming the first winners of a major trophy to be relegated from the Football League. [100] The all-seater stadium has a capacity of 12,500 and has only three stands instead of the usual four; when first planned in 1995 it was originally going to have a 16,000-seat capacity, but by the time the stadium opened Oxford was playing in a lower division, so the smaller capacity was deemed adequate. Oxford's first game back in the Football League was away to Burton, which finished in a 0–0 draw;[71] their first League win was on 4 September against Morecambe at the Kassam Stadium, with James Constable scoring a hat-trick in a 4–0 victory. The club crest depicts an ox above a representation of a ford to symbolise the location. To a lesser extent, Wycombe Wanderers, Luton Town and Northampton Town are also seen as rivals. [103] The stadium has also hosted rugby union matches, a woman's international football match (England v Sweden), an Under-17 international football tournament and music concerts.[104]. [97] The capacity at closure was 9,500, but hosted United's record crowd of 22,750 against Preston North End in an FA Cup sixth-round match on 29 February 1964. After relegation in 1976, between 1984 and 1986 the club earned successive promotions into the First Division, and won the League Cup in 1986. It is in the middle of residential Headington and as well as no parking facilities there is no room for expansion. Time will tell, but the majority of fans are inclined towards the more generous viewpoint. The feud even led to an all-out war between the two local papers a few years ago, the Oxford Mail firing the first shots with a story listing the advantages of living in Oxford over Swindon. [134] In 2011, vandals burned the initials STFC into the Kassam Stadium's pitch. The lowest point that has actually occurred was that period just over two years ago when the club had no money to pay backroom staff wages, players were being sold for a fraction of their value just to keep the bank from foreclosing and results were indicative of the off-the-field turmoil. [58] A run of eleven league games without a win followed, and saw United drop to second, where they remained until the end of the season. [52] Ex-England midfielder and former West Bromwich Albion manager Brian Talbot signed a two-year contract to replace Rix. Furthermore, the Reading chairman stepped down and was replaced by an opponent of the merger. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the black shorts were first replaced with yellow ones, and then with royal blue shorts. As with any club with a record similar to Oxford's, there are a number of players who incite the wrath of the crowd, especially those on high salaries who are deemed to be under-performing. His time at Oxford has been dogged by controversy and he has been on the verge of leaving more than once, but he has stuck with it and his determination was rewarded when Birse Construction began work at Minchery Farm at the end of last year. Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body, generally on people who were poor, sick, or powerless. [citation needed], During the height of football hooliganism, trouble flared up between the sets of fans. The club itself also runs a Juniors club, aimed at younger fans and offering a number of bonuses to the club's members such as birthday cards and a free T-shirt. There are a number of other decent hostelries around Headington, including the Black Boy, the Bell and the White Hart down nearby back streets. In 2015, Oxford was named the best University in Europe – but it isn’t just the University’s academic record that got us there. After 44 years in English league football, Oxford were relegated to the Conference National after finishing in 23rd place,[56] becoming the first former winners of a major trophy to be relegated from the league. A lot of others cite Marco Gabbiadini, on loan for just four weeks from Derby but whose waistline was more prominent than his goalscoring prowess. After joining the Southern League, the blue stripes were lost for good and a lighter shade of orange was used for the shirt. During Brown's four-year run, United were relegated back to the Third Division after spending eight years in the Second. One of the hallmarks of Oxford's recent form has been their inability to hold onto a lead, even a two-goal lead on more than one occasion, and so going ahead so early is always going to be dangerous given the club's penchant for self-destruction. United's home ground is the Kassam Stadium in Oxford and has a capacity of 12,500. The current sore point must surely be the departure of Joe Kinnear, who left his position as Director of Football last week citing family and health reasons. [136] The rivalry with Reading was heightened during the chairmanship of Robert Maxwell, because of his desire to merge the two clubs. United have already faced hiccups since they returned, with two people testing positive for the virus and both planned friendlies against Championship sides called off. Headington had no regular home until 1913, when they were able to purchase Wootten's Field on London Road, but this was redeveloped in 1920, forcing the club to move. For the next 17 years, the crest was simply the ox's head coloured blue, with various combinations of wording surrounding it. [43] The season ended with relegation back to the Second Division. Robin Herd, co-owner of the March Racing Team, took control of the club in 1995. The Radcliffe Camera at Oxford University, built between 1737–1749, was originally used to house the Radcliffe Science Library. [80] Under Lewis and Waddock, Oxford slipped out of the play-off places in the final few weeks of the season, finishing a disappointing eighth in the table, nine points off the last playoff place. [65] Following Wilder's arrival, the team won 15 of the remaining 21 league matches that season. As winners, Oxford would have qualified for the following season's UEFA Cup, had it not been for the ban on English teams that had resulted from the previous year's Heysel Stadium disaster. [96] In 1913 they were able to purchase Wootten's Field on London Road, however, this was redeveloped in 1920 before a stadium could be built.
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