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We Are Oxford United

'Esse est percipi aut percipere'
Whatever league we have found ourselves in, Oxford United has always been more than the players on the pitch. This is a collection of images, and occasional words, which evoke or inform this Oxford United for one supporter, and in which you might recognise an Oxford United you know.

Sunday, March 28

'Just a game': Gateshead at home

(The thoughts in James Constable and Paul Farman's heads as far apart as could be: their reaction, identical)
Labels: A kind of victory, Head down James Constable charges, Sheer relief, Springs eternal, The prodigal son
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Saturday, March 27

Away at Rushden

Labels: A world of possibilities ends on the sound of a whistle, Deering irrepressible
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Monday, March 22

Out of the blue and into the black at Tamworth

"...there's more to the picture than meets the eye."
Labels: A world of possibilities ends on the sound of a whistle, Deepening shades
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Sunday, March 14

Kettering at home: Picking over the bones of a season still alive

Labels: A world of possibilities ends on the sound of a whistle, Deepening shades, Seasons past weigh heavy on us
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Thursday, March 11

Feeling empty after Hayes and Yeading at home

Labels: Brothers-in-arms, Deepening shades, Seasons past weigh heavy on us, The other end of the telescope, The stark reality of defeat
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Monday, March 8

Subdued away at Cambridge

Labels: A world of possibilities ends on the sound of a whistle, The prodigal son
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A blog of pictures and few words...

...but here are some before we go.

Aspects of Oxford United

  • A kind of victory
  • A world of possibilities ends on the sound of a whistle
  • Abuses of literature
  • Adam Murray
  • Ben Hinchliffe
  • Brothers-in-arms
  • Circumstances bizarre
  • Court Place Farm
  • Deepening shades
  • Deering irrepressible
  • Drug of the nation
  • Head down James Constable charges
  • Histories collide
  • Jake Cole
  • Joy
  • Luke Foster
  • Meanwhile at the bar a drunkard muses
  • Minchery Farm
  • Mythologising the mundane
  • Ninety minutes of our lives that we can never have back
  • On the United commonwealth
  • Our cup runneth...
  • Phil Trainer and the simplicity of football
  • Pre-season
  • Reading photographs
  • Seasons past weigh heavy on us
  • Sheer relief
  • Springs eternal
  • The beast
  • The desire of James Clarke
  • The Manor Ground
  • The other end of the telescope
  • The prodigal son
  • The stark reality of defeat
  • The struggle behind the masque of Billy Turley
  • Yemi Odubade

The occasional pen portrait

  • Luke Foster: 'And I within, who came at the wrong time - either too soon, or after it was all too late.'
  • Mark Creighton: 'This strange hulking presence gnawing its meat was like nothing she had ever imagined, and she felt a profound admiration and pity for the lonely creature.'
  • Danny Bulman and Simon Clist: 'To antiquity we grant the indulgence of making the origins of cities more impressive by commingling the human with the divine...'
  • Sam Deering: 'Don't give a damn, what I wanted was to go in the Metro.'
  • More occasional pen portraits...
  • Other writing...

Other Oxford Uniteds

  • Rage Online - Fear and Loathing in Minchery Farm
  • OxBlogger - A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
  • Oxford United official site - Leviathan
  • OxKits - The Illustrated History
  • Giallo Esercito - On the Road
  • OxVox - The United Manifesto

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      • 'Just a game': Gateshead at home
      • Away at Rushden
      • Out of the blue and into the black at Tamworth
      • Kettering at home: Picking over the bones of a sea...
      • Feeling empty after Hayes and Yeading at home
      • Subdued away at Cambridge
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Inspiring this Oxford United (or things we love and from which we've shamelessly pilfered)

  • Conrad's river of prose
  • Pullman and animal nature
  • Livy's history of myth
  • Raymond Queneau's pros...
  • Ian McEwan's atonement
 

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