Match Day Thread Hull City v Oxford Utd

Saturday 3pm kick off.

magennis back in? Same team? Eaves to come off the bench and score a 93rd minute diving headerer? It’s getting exciting isn’t it? Just a shame we aren’t there to see it.
Pick ya team?
City to win 3-0.

 

The name Oxford comes from “Oxanforda” – “Cattle Crossing”.

Oxford was not bombed at all during WWII as Hitler wanted to use the city as a capital after conquering England.

Oxford was the capital of England during the Civil War (1642 – 1646).

The Ashmolean Museum is the oldest purpose-built museum in the world.

The University of Cambridge, was actually founded by Oxford scholars who fled the first of many “Town versus Gown” riots that erupted in Oxford in 1209 following the murder of a local woman by students.

The word “snob” originated in Oxford. It comes and abbreviates from the Latin phrase “sine nobilitate” which means “without nobility”.

The Holywell Music Room (1748) is the oldest music performance hall in Europe.

Oxford has more published authors per square mile than anywhere else in the world.

The Queens Lane Coffee House is the oldest continually working coffee house in Europe.

The Blackwells books in Oxford is the home to the Norrington room – the largest room in the world in which books are sold.

Oxford University was in existence while the Inca's were around.

Oxford is five minutes behind Greenwich meantime because it is 1 degree west of the prime meridian. That’s why the Great Tom Bell rings 101 times at 9.05 pm every evening.

Balliol college was built as a punishment for insulting the Bishop of Durham.

 

Hull City 2-2 Oxford United

 

It is getting very exciting Chazz.
5-0 City

 

I would play magennis and drop potter.

 

Wth .. positivity ? It'll be our downfall now fgs Erik

 

1-0 Oxford, 86th minute, 0 shots on target. Eaves to hit the roof of the stand we are shooting at in the 2nd half.
They’ll have 11 players behind the ball, we’ll have no plan to break them down.

 

I expect Oxford to attack us.
They need points to get into the play off places.
Happy days

 

Snap and bring Potter on 60 minutes in.

 

Another workmanlike 2-0 for me. Gavin Whyte will want to do well against his old lot.

 

0-1 and Docherty sent off

Frustrating

 

Potter, not Eaves? It’ll never happen.

 

Hull City on Twitter: "The last time we played Oxford, Greg Docherty did this! How impressed have you been with the midfielder? #hcafc | #theTigers https://t.co/DQaHaTQRhm" / Twitter

Goal from one of those stupid set pieces with Honey AND Elder. Ridiculous.
In fact, what even are the stats from our set pieces?

 

Didn't know we were in the same league as Oxford!
Last time I saw them was at Wembley in the Blue Square Premier play off final against York City 2010. We've sunk down the pyramid a bit it seems.
5 goals for at least.

 

I think I read somewhere they had only conceded 4 goals in their last eight games. Hard to break down then and we are at home has well. However we are the league leaders, it’s still tight up there, Sunderland not playing so any type of win would do, need to keep the run going and now is a good time to start turning the screw.

 

3-1 and Queen to belt out we are the champions

 

For Eaves to score a diving 'headerer' fate would have to be in play.

Crap bobbly cross going nowhere but to their keeper. Realising Tom cannot get his frame anywhere near the cross he pulls up to complain at George Honeyman, tripping over as he does so. Whilst falling down in stages as only Tom knows how, he is facing away from the goal but collides with an opposing player which causes the lanky good for nothing footballer to twist in a salmon like way. The watching throng fear the worst and wince (the heartless ones laugh). Meanwhile the ball is bobbling aimlessly towards their keeper when suddenly Toms head appears as if from nowhere. The bouncing, bobbly ball somehow collides with the back of Toms head as he falls to the ground. The ball is diverted under the keeper, hits the post, comes back to the keeper (hitting him on the back of his head) and ends up nestling in the back of the net.

Tom realises what has happened and with the rush of adrenalin he climbs to his feet, runs to the corner claiming the goal, whereupon he slips again and impales himself on the corner flag. The Tiger nation piss themselves laughing whilst chanting his name.

You heard it here first.

1-0 to us.

(I must find something meaningful to occupy my time).

 

Erm...

 

It's got shades of 1971 written all over it.
Tuesday night: *Blunts 1-2 City
Saturday : City 0-1 Oxford

Fifty years later...* Peterboro