Whilst listening to Alicia Keys -Never Felt This Way, it has made me start writing my second post for my newly designed blog. I really am an amateur! When I'm on the BBC website which is every 5 minutes, checking on the latest news for my beloved Oxford United, I sit in my bedroom wondering how the likes of Mark Webber, Formula One racing driver for Red Bull and Dan Walker, presenter on Football Focus, get the time to write about their day to day activities. These people are very passionate and they get the job done... I've always thought that these sportsmen are really committed to the cause.
I am an ordinary, just turned 25, female, who in years to come dreams of being a footballing journalist. I would love to put in reports on my Oxford United team and go to grounds such as Old Trafford, Stadium de luz, Real Madrid and Barcelona. That feeling of going into a packed-out crowd just gives me such a massive lift.
On Sunday 16th May 2010, 33,000 Oxford yellow and blue fans braved the mean streets of London to watch Oxford take on York City in the Blue Square Bet Premier. It meant a lot to the yellow and blue army as we had faced 4 seasons in a place that is so hard to get out of. Jack Midson, who now is at Wimbledon, had a belter of a game, running the York midfield and getting them tied in knots. Matthew Green's goal was actually totally breath-taking. What vision. Up to half-time we were pretty comfortable. Mark "Beast" Crieghton was a rock at the heart of the defence, although Ryan Clarke, our goal-keeper, made a total tool out of himself by putting the ball into his own net. LOL.
Chris Wilder changed the shape of the team by taking Midson off and bringing on the nippy duo of Sam Deering and Alfie Potter; Sam Deering was seering down the right and Alfie Potter was seering down the left, one - two - GOOOAAAALLLLL! Deering was very unselfish in passing the ball to nippy Potter. Surely that had to have secured The Yellow's path back into the Football League? Once the final whistle had gone I had a tear in my eye; I had never witnessed such a full-blooded occasion that meant so much to the future of Oxford United.
That game gets repeated in my mind every 48 hours! We have now been back in League 2 for 1 in a half seasons now. On Boxing Day we have a very vital game at Kingsmeadow, which is the home of AFC Wimbledon. Terry Brown has down an immense job and I hope that the "Dons" can stay in the league. Oxford are in quite a healthy position, although if we hadn't lost all of our games in November we would be facing quite a comfortable feeling of being nicely placed in the play-offs - yet, dare I say it, it is looking very tight, as 4 points separates us from our nearest and fiercest rivals - Swindon! 2 points off the play-offs, anything is possible ...
Just wanting to sign off. - Merry Christmas to you all.
