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It’s not about the journey, it’s about the destination!
10.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats to @martinezra.bsky.social, @bigdwoolly.bsky.social & @wiggytoo.com, who between them guessed the two correct answers - which are…
Will Vaulks and Michal Helik!
Vaulks played for Wales in a friendly in October 2020 & Helik started for Poland in a World Cup qualifier in March 2021.
Nope, but a good shout!
10.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Correct!
10.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Afraid not - he's a midfielder...
10.10.2025 08:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nope, sorry!
10.10.2025 08:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Helik and Ben Davies?
09.10.2025 16:55 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Helik is correct!
09.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Krastev? Helik? We can't have that many more internationals
09.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0One of those is correct! The other correct answer is probably the more difficult one
09.10.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Neither correct I'm afraid!
09.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Matt Phillips? Shemmy?
09.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0A quiz question for you...🤔
With Mark Harris hoping to feature in Wales' friendly with England tonight, which TWO other members of the #oufc squad have played against England at Wembley?
Share your answers in the comments...no cheating👇
Good knowledge!
03.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vinny Jones & Neil Ruddock played for QPR. Jamie Cook & Paul Powell were superb & got selected for England u21’s on the back of it
03.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0After last night’s stalemate, #oufc have now failed to score on their past 4 visits to QPR.
Steve Davis (not that one) was the last player to score for the club at Loftus Road with this effort in a 1-1 draw in April 1998!
United are also on a 13-game winless run at QPR, stretching back to 1969 😬
Yesterday was the first time #oufc have won a second-tier away game by 2+ goals since beating Norwich 3-1 in November 1998 - a time when the club’s very existence was in doubt.
Brian Wilsterman, Dean Windass and Andy Thomson the scorers that day ⚽️
📹 YouTube/Jim Hendo
Arguably the only thing missing from his #oufc career!
18.09.2025 10:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I still regret his glaring miss in the cup final. I really wanted him to score that day
18.09.2025 10:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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⚽️ 23 league goals in Division One in 1985-86 (3rd highest in the top flight)
⚽️ 5 goals in the victorious 1985-86 League Cup run
⚽️ 38 goals in 64 top-flight games for #oufc (club record)
⚽️ 5 hat-tricks (including 4 goals v Gillingham in 1986)
Happy Birthday, Aldo!
John Aldridge turns 67 today 🎂
Here are some of the incredible stats from his time at #oufc 👇
⚽️ 90 goals in 141 games (most prolific player in the club's history)
⚽️ 34 goals in all comps in 1984-85 Division Two title-winning season (club record for an EFL campaign)
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ICYMI: Liam Rice joined us to reflect on the first month of the season and his time covering #oufc for the Oxford Mail!
😀 Reasons to be cheerful
🤝 Best manager to work with?
💎 Which player was a diamond?
🚍 Inside the 2024 bus parade
...and much more!
Listen here 👇
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*NEW POD*
Our recap of the first month of the season at #oufc / Liam Rice's Oxford Mail exit interview is out now!
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Missing your #oufc fix during the international break? We’ve got you covered 👊
Our next pod is out tomorrow evening, when we’ll be joined by former Oxford Mail chief sportswriter Liam Rice to reflect on the first month of the season, the transfer window and Liam’s time at the OM.
Don’t miss it!
This is only the 6th time #oufc have taken 1 point or fewer from the first 4 games of an EFL season 😬
The good news? *Most* of the others turned out all right...
2018-19: 0⃣ points (finished 12th)
2014-15: 0⃣ points (13th)
2000-01: 0⃣ points (24th)
1991-92: 0⃣ points (21st)
1978-79: 1⃣ point (11th)
Listen to the full episode here👇
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Probably the most notable #oufc win against Brighton was a 3-0 FA Cup 4th round upset in January 1982 🏆
Peter Foley (2) and Keith Cassells scored as Ian Greaves’ third-tier side stunned the Seagulls, then of Division One 😮
Peter reflected on that day when he joined us on the pod this year 👇
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14.08.2025 19:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A rare moment of Junior Brown doing good
12.08.2025 09:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The previous time #oufc were in League Cup action #OnThisDay was in 2014, when they caused a first-round upset at Bristol City.
Carlton Morris and Danny Hylton scored in a 2-1 comeback win, giving Michael Appleton his first victory as United boss.
📹YouTube/Oxford United Official
