Brown was bad for us but nowhere near as bad as he was when he played against us. His performance in the first half for Bury during the 6-0 hammering was probably the worst by an individual I’ve ever seen.
It was the 2011 riots. Within a week or so of the Bury game we also played Blues (loads of looting had happened in Birmingham) and Palace (Croydon was smashed up but I couldn’t tell the difference between then and any other time I’d been there).
If anyone questions how shit our players have been just tell them that Julian Gray, Danny Seabourne, Matt Heath and Gary Borrowdale all played for us and aren’t in our worst 11 of the last 15 years.
Edit: and Stuart Beavon plays for us now.
Either Nathan Clark or Kevin Foley (I can’t remember which, both were as shit as each other) was captain when relegation was confirmed. Nothing sums up that season more than that.
Tim Sherwood passed the same medical. I got invited down to Ryton that summer and he told me about his leg break. Horrific stuff. He was running round the outer perimeter of the two pitches for over an hour after the rest of the team had come in for lunch. He was trying to get fit but it was...
He wasn’t brilliant. I’m sure I’ve read somewhere he was suffering from a degenerative bone condition at the time without knowing it though. Can’t have been easy for him!
I think that was the game where Hutchinson came off the bench and changed it in our favour. Was John’s goal from just outside the area in front of the CT Stand?
Oxford is a nice place but the location of the ground ruins it. A couple of years ago we were going to go on the train but the distance from the town centre put us off and we went by car instead as it was miles easier.
48,988,800 seconds or
816,480 minutes or
13,608 hours or
567 days or
81 weeks...
...since Beavon last scored a League goal. I’d still have him over Gabby.