Gasheads are no saints

[ghanimah]

Rivalry !!

I would NEVER watch Oxford Utd play other than against us.
To actually think of putting money in their coffers would make me sick.
I would not even consider going to the Cinema or Bowlplex where Oxfords ground is due to some of the money lining Kassam's pocket.

I guess it has something to do with age, history and where you came from.

I don't even consider both Bristol Clubs or even Reading as rivals.

Right or wrong I will never change...........Pure hate of the filth.

I'm with you on that one. A mate of mine once had a trip to Kassam organised for his birthday (a friendly against Chelsea iirc) before moving onto a night out in Oxford. Needless to say I stayed in the pub for game - I couldn't face sitting amongst Poxford fans and contributing to their coffers. Each to their own I guess though

[Arriba]

I've been to watch Brizzle rovers as a neutral before and don't see an issue with it unless you actually cheer for a rival team.

[RedRag]

So it is morally wrong to watch football matches with friends who happen to support 'rival' teams? .....I have the capacity to accept that not all my friends have to be Swindon Town fans and that I don't have to hate people I make acquaintance with just because they support a different football team to me.

I am with you here.  Surely people get this.

Perhaps I am a tourist as for me even "that rivalry" is only genuinely serious within the confines of the ground on matchdays.

At one level however, certain rivalries do have a serious and defining quality.

Going to watch those rivals live is in no way like going to see a film only because your friend likes it. 

I have been to Pox v Man Utd XI in a pre-season friendly with a couple of good but misguided friends.  Even though the match did not matter, it felt so wrong.  I was light-heartedly cheering on Man Utd but really there is nothing light hearted in your soul when it comes to seeing the Pox in front of your very eyes...

Abrahammer has probably got it right - going into the away end when on a night out with his Brizzle mates

[bassett boy]

Some of us have” friends” and I use the term loosely, who support the slave traders or the gas, I would never invite them to watch us play nor would I expect them to come along
As for the points in relation to Headington Untied personally I have never seen them as our main rival it has always been Bristol

[kerry red]

Much to Mrs Kerry Red's chagrin I wont go to, or even consider spending a farthing, in Oxford at any time for any reason

It's take all she has to get me to go to anywhere in Oxfordshire.

Whenever Oxford is mentioned on the telly, in any respect whatsoever, I instinctively spit.

[Bob's Orange]

Much to Mrs Kerry Red's chagrin I wont go to, or even consider spending a farthing, in Oxford at any time for any reason

It's take all she has to get me to go to anywhere in Oxfordshire.

Whenever Oxford is mentioned on the telly, in any respect whatsoever, I instinctively spit.

For me, that is totally over the top. I can get that people wouldn't want to put money in Oxford United Football Club, but to not go to the actual City itself?

For what it's worth as a City, Oxford has plenty to see and do, the fact Oxford United play there, is neither here nor there.

But, each to their own.

[Reg Smeeton]

For me, that is totally over the top. I can get that people wouldn't want to put money in Oxford United Football Club, but to not go to the actual City itself?

For what it's worth as a City, Oxford has plenty to see and do, the fact Oxford United play there, is neither here nor there.

But, each to their own.

Indeed, I'll be nipping over to the Ashmolean, for the Henry Moore/Francis Bacon exhibition in the next couple of weeks.

Don't tell KR that the Bodleian has a massive storage facility over at South Marston....he'll go and torch the place.

[Bob's Orange]

Is the Oxford Story still there? Pretty sure I went a couple of times when I was younger.

[Peter Venkman]

Is the Oxford Story still there? Pretty sure I went a couple of times when I was younger.

Nope that closed a fair few years ago now, I used to enjoy that place.

[Ralphy]

Lived in Oxfordshire all my life. Apart from the football team, it's a beautiful county. Oxford is a nice city too with some decent pubs.

I refuse to go anywhere near the Kassam though. The cinema and bowling complex are no man's land.

[RedOx]

I've been to watch Brizzle rovers as a neutral before and don't see an issue with it unless you actually cheer for a rival team.

In the last 25 years, I have worked, socialised and now live in Oxford  

Most of the people I know are Oxford fans (mostly season ticket holders) and I have seen them play over the years against other sides as well as Swindon, when birthdays or all dayers are involved.

I don’t cheer or sing any songs and most people that know I am Swindon and take great pleasure in laughing at me when they score and asking me to cheer!  

Don’t get me wrong I want them to lose every match but don’t hate them and don’t want them to go out of business….as Kassam is doing a fine job!

I have no feelings towards Reading or the Bristol clubs as I think that appears to come down to where you live and how long you have been watching the Town.

I sometimes go to Spurs home games with a mate I know who lives in the smoke and am happy for him when they score but don’t cheer.

If you ‘hate’ Oxford then fair enough but I always wonder whether the fans at our games that sing the songs actually have any idea what the rivalry is about as Oxford hate us more than ‘we’ hate them. Their hatred of Reading was only fierce because the boundary with Berks was about 15 miles from Oxford itself. After that they seemed to batter them at every opportunity!

Oxford is a beautiful city and will remain so whether KR wants to visit or not.  

[Abrahammer]

Much to Mrs Kerry Red's chagrin I wont go to, or even consider spending a farthing, in Oxford at any time for any reason

It's take all she has to get me to go to anywhere in Oxfordshire.

Whenever Oxford is mentioned on the telly, in any respect whatsoever, I instinctively spit.

That is just bizarre

[Ardiles]

Much to Mrs Kerry Red's chagrin I wont go to, or even consider spending a farthing, in Oxford at any time for any reason

It's take all she has to get me to go to anywhere in Oxfordshire.

Whenever Oxford is mentioned on the telly, in any respect whatsoever, I instinctively spit.

That makes no sense.  Football club catchments do not follow county boundaries, because county boundaries are not neatly drawn around towns & cities.  The Oxfordshire boundary, for example, passes very close to both Swindon and Reading.  And as a result, there are parts of Oxfordshire that lend much more support to us and Reading than they ever would to Oxford.

[herthab]

Football rivalry, taken outside the confines of football,  makes as much sense to me as racism and makes the protagonists appear just as moronic.

[Costanza]

I live a 15 minute walk away and go to Ashton Gate quite a bit. The people I go with know I support Swindon, the people they sit with know I support Swindon. They'll ask me during the game how Swindon are doing. No big deal. When Town play at Ashton Gate, I'm in the away end hoping for nothing else other than a Swindon win.

I also wander up to Rovers occasionally, a very timid (dare I say it, family club) atmosphere outside of rivalries. Essentially what I'm saying is that it's dull.

To be honest, I really enjoy attending football matches and going to games in Bristol is much cheaper for me right now.

Back in the day, people in cities with two or more clubs often watched whoever was at home... I don't think attending football matches that involve other teams is a trait of 'modern football'.