So first game of a brand new season, always seems to come round far too early especially as this Saturday it was actually sunny rather than lashing down as it seems to have done for the rest of the off season.
Pre-game found us in the Chequers, which served well as the meeting place; we shunned the bus as 4 squeezed in a taxi and met the 5th at the ground, the 5th’s wife is expecting so he had planned various fast getaway routes which involved at least 3 forms of transport.
Shock – horror the beer at the ground is now cheaper and marginally less gassy and rubbish.
Anyway onto the game, a pretty evenly matched affair with neither side making many chances, York made 2 and scored 1, Oxford made 2 and scored 2 and that is pretty much the game summary – however the timing of the Oxford goals added some level of excitement with an equaliser on 88 and a winner on 90 – Wilde starting as he left off last season with creative and reasonably courageous substitutions which definitely turned the game enough for Oxford to equalise, and this spurred on the Yellows enough to scrape a winner.
York fans will be justifiably disgruntled, but we’ll take what we can get.
I think I’ll avoid player reviews at this stage, some had better starts than others but overall positive.
Next Kettering away …
PS - post match atmosphere spoilt by watching England continue to collapse in spectacular fashion in the 4th test
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