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The Oldest Of The New

30 Friday Nov 2018

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Football League, Glanford Park, League 1, M181, New Ground, Old Showground, oxford united., Scunthorpe, SCUNTHORPE UNITED

Saturday 3rd November 2018 ko 15.00

E.F.L. League 1

SCUNTHORPE UNITED 3 (Clarke 60 Thomas 64 Goode 66)

OXFORD UNITED 3 (Henry 8 Brannagan 50 Nelson 55)

Att 3,665 (383 away)

Entry £22 (away end, if bought in advance)

Programme £3

Parking £3

Last season I wrote a piece about Southend United describing them as the youngest of the old, Roots Hall was built in 1955 and no further Football League club moved home until Scunthorpe United moved from the Old Showground to Glanford Park in 1988. It is a curio as the moved before the spur that encouraged other clubs to follow suit.  Continue reading →

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The Silver Bullet

29 Sunday Dec 2013

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Asa Hall, Dave Kitson, Deane Smalley, oxford united., SCUNTHORPE UNITED

Thursday 26th December 2013 ko 15.00

League 2

OXFORD UNITED 2 (Hall 66 Nelson 88og)

PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 3 (Lavery 46 Reid 81p 97)

Att 10,049 (699 away)

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Saturday 29th December 2013 ko 15.00

League 2

OXFORD UNITED 0 Smalley missed pen 83

SCUNTHORPE UNITED 2 (Burton 11 Syers 71) Burton missed pen 39

Att 6,009 (527 away)

Entry S/T

Programmes £3 each

Normally I don’t lump games together, but since the games, and results were so similar if seems daft not to do so.

On Boxing Day, the club pulled out all the stops to get a bumper crowd. The styled “Big Match,” saw an opera singer, and pyrotechnics to help create an electric atmosphere, and the cute marketing created a 5-digit crowd primed to watch Oxford United push on towards promotion. Except the team let down everyone by producing a performance so lack-lustre than all Plymouth had to do was wait for the defensive errors and pick United off. Asa Hall’s 30-yard blast was a brief highlight in a poor display. Continue reading →

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