Updated 14.42

Aldershot are the latest side to visit United, as the Us endeavour to break yet another record. Should Oxford win or draw, they will set a new club sequence of 18 undefeated consecutive league games in a season. The indications are that they will be attempting to set this record in front of their largest crowd of the season so far, and one that could easily enter into the top ten Conference attendances since the league formed, in 1979. In addition to a widespread publicity campaign by United to attract more spectators, there is the added incentive that holders of ticket stubs for tomorrow’s match will have first dibs on Wycombe FA Cup tickets, should season ticket holders not have bought them all.

Jim Smith will have to make one change to the side that won 1-0 at Dagenham in the FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round last week, as Matt Day picked up his fifth booking of the season and is suspended. However, the good news is that Chris Willmott will be available again after he missed out due to his pregnant wife having to go to hospital. It was a false alarm on that occasion, but she has since given birth, so congratulations Chris, now concentrate on the game. The squad will be going into this game full of confidence, but morale on its own doesn’t win games, and Smith will have ensured that complacency hasn’t set in.

Aldershot Town are a clone of the original Aldershot FC, which went bust a wee while ago, although they are ostensibly the same club. Although United have beaten this lot three times in the 12 previous encounters, they were all in cup competitions (including the exceedingly tin-pot Football League Trophy in 1982). The last time that the teams met was in the FA Cup in 1987, when Aldershot famously tripled their admission prices (to a whopping