Oxford Win the FA Cup

Having performed above expectation in finishing 11th in my first season in the Premier League with Oxford; I also led my team to Wembley, and won the FA Cup with an incredibly tense penalty shoot-out victory over West Ham.

We won the game 15-14, and will therefore now be playing in Europe next season. We’ve only ever lost to West Ham once, and that was back when we were playing in League Two. We met on three occasions last season; twice in the league, and once in the cup. I took 4 points off of them in the league, but beating them in the FA Cup final was certainly the sweetest of the three.

We had to overcome some tough teams in reaching the final, and West Ham certainly wasn’t the most difficult opponent that we faced; it still proved to be one of the trickiest games of the season though, and we were forced to play the match with a number of our top performers missing. The team we fielded was not our best, and that therefore could have gone against us, thankfully we were still able to win the game though, and an impressive first season in the Premier League was ultimately made all the more memorable.

The game ended goalless, we held our nerve in the shoot-out though, and didn’t miss a single penalty. Hopefully there’ll be more FA Cup success to come in the future, winning it once is greater than I ever imagined we’d do though, and appearing in Europe is the fine reward that we now have to look forward to.