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This year’s annual Geovarsity fixture was held in enemy territory. Despite the carpet-like pitch provided for the previous fixture in Cambridge, Oxford served up the kind of pitch usually reserved for Premier league teams visiting lower-league opposition. Oxford’s scouts had clearly been rattled by the prospects of Cambridge’s Barcelona-esque tiki-taka honed on the 5-a-side training ground.
Despite Oxford’s home advantage and superior numbers of substitutes … Continue reading