Ramón Díaz

The, the...

Four or five coaches were lined up and said, "Do you know what? Even one, Ramón Díaz..." You know, the Díazes, who had a-

Yeah

... strange spell at Oxford a few years ago.

Ramón Díaz and his son got them out of relegation, um, danger two or three years ago, and even then said...

They, they had a look and they said, "Don't really fancy this one."

[laughs]

And then he returned to Argentina and played in Boca Juniors, his final years.

Yeah, and of course, Ramon Diaz would briefly...

And Ramon Diaz also.

I think that

he won in Monaco too, Ramon Diaz.

So it would be another two decades before the sides faced one another again.

These two matches would both be friendlies and on French soil, both in February.

This was when we were under the managership or brief spell of Pep Clothet.

Now, Ox had never been managed by an overseas manager before, apart from our glorious few-month fever dream of Argentinian World Cup winner Ramon Diaz.

So all eyes were on what? the our very own pep would do when given charge of oxford and what he tried to do was recreate the malmo side of 2010 which he had been assistant manager of uh and of which they had uh had Ivor Pekelski, who was our big summer signing, who played no games for us at all.

Anom Mermeti, a free-scoring Albanian striker who was not very free-scoring for us.