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Having painfully witnessed the U's get relegated at the end of the 2005/2006 with it all coming down to the last game, a home tie against Leyton Orient at the almighty Kassam Stadium, I thought that I would write a piece about my beloved Oxford United and life in the Blue Square Premier. At the aforementioned game I felt that Oxford played their hearts out, however we just didn't have the strength to defeat a Leyton Orient side that despite securing promotion to League 1 with a 3-2 win over us looked pretty poor. That's neither here nor there however, and now in our second season in the Blue Square Premier, we just don't seem to be making any changes to that. Currently sitting around mid table, Oxford United are a depressingly average Blue Square Premier team who seriously need to up their game if they're ever to return to playing competitive League football.

I have been an Oxford United fan all of my life, and with all of my family supporting the club going to the games can either be a great family outing, or serious fuel for a family feud. The team have recently had their manager Jim Smith resign having unsuccessfully managed to guide Oxford to promotion last season through the play-off's. It was Jim Smith's second stint in charge of the team, and he had previously guided us to the top flight of football for the first time back in the 1985-86 season, having won two titles in a row before rather amusingly leaving the club to manage QPR whom he then had to witness Oxford defeat 3-0 in the Milk Cup Final that same year. Although Smith brought great success to the club the first time around, it just didn't happen for a second time around and hence him resigning, meaning that first team coach Darren Patterson would take on the role as manager.

-The Stadium and the Crowds-

For a non-league ground, the Kassam Stadium is extremely impressive, but then again had we been in the Blue Square South and been scheduled to come up the ground we have would have meant we wouldn't have been accepted into the Blue Square Premier as the rules permit that all grounds must have 4 sides and I doubt that the fence that is situated behind one of the goals would count. Seating 12 500, the Kassam is plenty big enough for the crowds of 4000+ that we've been getting recently for our home games and I fear that it will be a long wait until we will be able to fill the stadium on a regular basis. Should we win promotion this season, then we may well fill it up again for the game that will potentially

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