This week we have the second of the double bill of Oxford United aficionados with Dan Curtis following Matt Gooderick, his podcast partner from You Are My Oxford. While Matt covered Oxford’s glory years in the 80s, Dan focuses on the not so glorious decade of the 90s when things began to unravel, following the death of the club’s former owner Robert Maxwell. He also fondly remembers Oxford’s return to the Football League in 2010 and the birth of the phrase ‘Back on the Coupon’.
Dan’s first Oxford match was an away game at Highbury, a game not choc full of entertainment or indeed goals. His second, which was almost exactly forty years ago, was a deeply significant one in British football. For Dan’s first visit to the Manor Ground the opponents were Manchester United and in the opposition dugout was a manager taking charge of his first match for United. Alex Ferguson’s team lost 2-0. Dan reveals how his parents were offered free tickets for 1966 World Cup final as they were outside Wembley that day but turned them down.
Part 1 – https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dan-curtis-part-1–76273528
Part 2- https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dan-curtis-part-2–76306792
