TOMORROW will be the third FA Cup meeting between Oxford United and Blackburn Rovers spread over half a century – and Derek Fazackerley has reason to remember the previous two.
Now United’s assistant head coach, he spent 18 years with Rovers, including a 1-0 win at the Manor in the 1984/85 season’s fourth round.
U’s supporters of a certain vintage will also recall a 3-1 victory 21 years earlier which sent them into the quarter-final for the only time in their history.
Fazackerley said: “The game in 1985 was certainly a night game and I think Jimmy Quinn scored the winning goal for us.
“I think Billy Hamilton got injured in the warm-up.
“I remember that game, but my memory also goes back to the 1964 game when they knocked Blackburn out, only because Oxford played Preston in the next round.
“Preston went on to the final (losing to West Ham) and they were the team I supported as a boy.”
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