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Match wrap | Oxford United 0 Bristol City 0

'The Championship isn’t normal, we’re told we’re punching above our weight and marvel at our opponents resources. A goal may have obscured the real improvement, a sense of parity with the Championship.'

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Match wrap | Oxford United 0 Bristol City 0
This week I had the distraction of having two wisdom teeth removed. Generally speaking, I was very brave boy but I still have the occasional flashback to the surgeon saying in his calm, soothing mo…
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January 18, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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Unwrapped | Oxford United v Bristol City

We've mobilised with the precision and discipline of the Ant Hill Mob. Tiger's wife posted a video of her husband showing his grandson our January transfer targets. The Championship quaked.

It's the preview...

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Unwrapped | Oxford United v Bristol City
The week unwrapped It’s been a billion years since our last league game so obviously it’s all kicked off. After an expected, but fairly flaccid, 2-1 defeat to Ipswich on New Year’s Day …
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January 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Oxford United fans: what do you think of the various home and away memberships? Would you change anything for next season? Please message the FAB with your feedback, we will be sharing it with the club later this month.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
FA Cup 4th round U's v Sunderland at HOME
January 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Match wrap | MK Dons 1 Oxford United 1 (3-4 on penalties)

'It might have felt like we were playing in a haunted cathedral with a side cobbled together like a toddler playing with your Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon, but class told in the end.'

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Match wrap | MK Dons 1 Oxford United 1 (3-4 on pens)
Oxford United are masters of inconsequential firsts. In 1950, Headington United were the first professional team to install floodlights, using them for a friendly against Banbury Spencer. This wasn…
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January 10, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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600 days since #OUFC had a penalty awarded in a league game
December 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Oxblogger Mid-Season Survey 2025/26

We're at the half-way point of the season and things are going... well? Badly? Somewhere in the middle?

It's the Oxblogger mid-season survey - rate the players, manager and owners and predict how the season ends.

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December 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Really interesting episode of The Dub including an interview with Tim Williams.
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Oxford United - The Dub - Saints Come Up Short - BBC Sounds
Interim boss leads Oxford to win, plus manager search latest and CEO interview
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December 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Unwrapped | Oxford United v Swansea City

Us | Transcending
Them | Cosplaying
Football Friend | Jeremy Charles
From the archive | Success in a blizzard of failure from 2000.

It's the preview:

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Unwrapped | Oxford United v Swansea City
The week unwrapped Games come at Christmas like Lewis Haldane, thick and fast. We’re now at the point where the mince pies no longer taste right and nobody knows when to put the bins out. Amazingly…
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December 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Match wrap | Oxford United 2 Southampton 1

'The team felt like the decisions of someone not contracted to deliver a tightly defined output. Craig Short's selection was for the people, free of the over-thinking that wracked Gary Rowett’s final weeks.'

oxblogger.co.uk/2025/12/27/m...

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Match wrap | Oxford United 2 Southampton 1
Oxford’s CEO Tim Williams was on the Price of Football podcast this week, for someone often criticised for his communication skills, he always comes over well when he talks. The podcast’s host, foo…
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December 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Match wrap | Oxford United 2 Ipswich Town 1

'The swiftness and fluidity channels through Placheta. Everything is incidental, he instructing the ball, as if he's telepathically connected, it’s all instinct, it's in the net before he knows it.'

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Match wrap | Oxford United 2 Ipswich Town 1
There was a lot of debate about the Baxi Light Show before last night’s game. We’re not at an Coldplay concert, there’s a tacit agreement about the behavioural norms games when you go to a ga…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Match wrap | Norwich City 1 Oxford United 1

‘What a game!’ claimed the commentators at the whistle as they tried to find a narrative like they were scraping the last peanut butter from the jar. It was one the least ‘what a game’ games you’ll ever see'

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Match wrap | Norwich City 1 Oxford United 1
First, let’s do science. By the time we faced them last night, a run as extraordinarily long and bad as the one Norwich were on was always much closer to ending than it was to starting. After seven…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The meeting minutes from the inaugural meeting of the Fan Advisory Board can be found via the club website here:
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We are here to represent the voice of fans and be in open dialogue with the club

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Fan Advisory Board Holds Inaugural Meeting | Oxford United Football Club
The newly formed Oxford United Fan Advisory Board (FAB) met for its inaugural meeting at the Kassam Stadium earlier this month.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Erick Thohir Increases Controlling Interest In Oxford United | Oxford United Football Club
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November 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
U's at SWFC
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Your #oufc Fan Advisory Board met for the first time on 29th September. The minutes from the meeting can be found on the revamped Fan Advisory section of the club website here:
FAB Meeting Minutes | Oxford United Football Club
FAB Meeting Minutes September 2025...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This account will no longer be updated. Please follow @oufcfab for updates from the Fan Advisory Board
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Oxblogger Newsletter - call for copy

The international break is a chance to take stock and write for the Oxblogger newsletter. We want to hear your hot takes and stories whether on-field, off-field or Oxford adjcent.

Details here:

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Oxblogger Newsletter - call for copy
What are you waiting for? Get writing.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Match wrap | Watford 2 Oxford United 1

'For the Watford game, I was in row DD, which was so close to the pitch, row CC was where the wheelchair users sit, BB were the stewards, and AA was Greg Leigh.'

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Match wrap | Watford 2 Oxford United 1
As I’ve got older, I’ve found that taking the path of least resistance has become my default. If I’m tired, I go to bed rather than ruminate about being cool and staying up. If I want tickets…
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October 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Unwrapped | Oxford United v Sheffield United

It's the preview:

Us | Brannababy, baby.
Them | The return of Chuckles Wilder.
Football friend | George Baldock
From the archive | Era shifts in 1999

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Unwrapped | Oxford United v Sheffield United
The week unwrapped In the face of excruciating pain, endless screaming, and a mess of blood, sweat and tears, you’ve just got to keep pushing and pushing until it finally arrives. I’m n…
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September 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM