Your first Swindon v Oxford game...

[land_of_bo]

been chased by them twice as a school kid.once through the city centre and once when a load of them were waiting on the wyvern bridge.
land of bo will remember them occasions

Oh yes, and remember being chased at Oxford away as soon as we got off the train, running into M&S to hide (was only 15/16) so that must have been 90/91

The cup game was simod cup I think...I remember also going to the manor for a mid week simod  cup game, we won 3-1 with our reserves...we scored from a free kick given away when a scummer thought he hadn't taken a free kick and picked the ball up, the ref gave it othe other way!

[Tails]

1-1 at the County Ground, Allison scored for us and they equalised in the second half I believe. In '95 anywho...

[jayohaitchenn]

I wasn't allowed to go to any derbys as a kid. My first ever local derby was Rovers last year.

[Simon Pieman]

I hardly went to any games as a kid, my dad was more of a *cough* Leeds fan.

Oh how I wish I could gloat how the mighty have fallen.

[Panda Paws]

92-93, both home and away. remember at the manor getting egged from behind the stand, or something along those lines!

[adje]

1969,.... Ron and Graham Atkinson played for Oxford.  

John Smith and Ron Atkinson went at it like a couple of sumo wrestlers.  Final score 0:0.

That was mine too-sat in the old "ringside seats"

[Summerof69]

Feb '89, when we tanked them 3-0 at the CG.

If my memory serves me right, the goals were scored by Alan Mac, Ross McLaren and Colin Calderwood.

Personal highlights over the years, was the amount of stick Joey got on his return, where he got clobbered everywhere on the pitch, and the ref just told him to shut up and get on with it, and the 4-1 victories. Just prior to both of those games, we were playing crap, but the Pox turned up, and still received their normal drubbing.  

[Amir]

1-1 at the County Ground, Allison scored for us and they equalised in the second half I believe. In '95 anywho...

Same as that.  Blatent foul on Allison when Moody scored their equalizer :x

The 0-3 at the Manor in the same season is one of the worst games I've been to....the two home games in the following seasons made up for that.

[Compo]

Friendly    in about 1988
loads of agro and coin throwing
fighting with poxford fans in that big park next to the old manor ground

Happy days    

[Red81]

Swindon Cable, Zenith Data Systems Cup, 1st round

1st October 1991. Was a Tuesday 7:45pm kick off. 3-3 apparently... That what's written on the back of the programme

[janaage]

We won that on penalties didn't we?  Or was that on another occasion?

[Red81]

I really can't remember tbh. I was about 10

[Melksham Red]

1989 stuffed them 3-0 was my first. Fucking brilliant. My favourite though was in 1991 away at the manor. They were 2-0 up within about five minutes. We were level at half time I think, then went on to win 4-2. Good times.

[Summerof69]

We won that on penalties didn't we?  Or was that on another occasion?

Correct. We went 3-1 down in extra time, and came back to draw  3-3...then we beat the scum on pens.

3-1 up...and they fooked it up. No change there then !!

[Christy]

land_of_bo wrote

I remember also going to the manor for a mid week simod cup game, we won 3-1 with our reserves...we scored from a free kick given away when a scummer thought he hadn't taken a free kick and picked the ball up, the ref gave it othe other way!

 

And their one was an own goal by Colin Baillie, and not his only og of that time.  

Around that time when they were on the up (mid-late 80s) we also won there in Gary Briggs's testimonial, the friendly I think Compo returns to.

I also remember both occasions for being particularly lively behind the Cuckoo Lane.

At least they now have a decent hospital on the site - when Sonic Uncle made a recent visit he requested (and got) a room in the away end.