United lost again on their travels, their fourth consecutive away defeat, this time going down 3-1 at Mansfield. After dominating the opening quarter of an hour, Oxford fell behind to a 16th minute Junior Mendes strike. Just three minutes later Colin Larkin doubled the score following a poor back-pass by Jon Ashton, and United looked  [ more ]

United go back up to Field Mill tomorrow evening for the rearranged game against Mansfield, the original having been controversially abandoned at half-time with no goals having been scored. That would have been David Oldfield’s one and only foray (so far) into league management, but of course the stats were rendered null and void and  [ more ]

Northampton Town Supporters 3 Raging Fever 7 Match report by Jon Brown Oxford United fans? team scored an impressive away victory in a fiercely contested match at Dallington Park, Northampton. Dominating the early exchanges, the Fever opened the scoring when Steve Fuller crossed from the left for John Matthews to continue his impressive recent notching  [ more ]

It all looked so good at half-time, as United were 1-0 up at Northampton through a 22nd minute Steve Basham header from a Matt Robinson cross. Unfortunately two goals were conceded from right-wing crosses in the second half to gift the points to the Cobblers, after United had threatened to swamp the hosts in the  [ more ]

With an almost complete squad to choose from for United’s trip to Northampton on Saturday, Graham Rix faces a number of selection posers, in just about every position. In goal he has to decide whether to recall Andy Woodman, or stick with Simon Cox, who gave such an assured display against Doncaster on Saturday. We  [ more ]

United played a behind-closed-doors friendly against Reading at the Madejski Stadium this afternoon, winning 2-0 thanks to headers from Jon Ashton, right at the end of the first half, and Jefferson Louis, right at the end of the second. Oxford featured former Reading goalie Alan Judge between the sticks because they didn’t want to risk  [ more ]

Young goalie Simon Cox gave a Man-of-the-Match performance on his league debut to deny Doncaster and earn United a 0-0 draw against the league leaders. Although Cox was by far the busier of the two custodians this wasn’t all one-way traffic and Oxford, with just Steve Basham up front on his own, had their opportunities  [ more ]

Transfer deadline day was fairly quiet at Oxford today, with one player coming in and one player leaving. Incoming was Courtney Pitt, a left-winger from Portsmouth and a ready-made replacement for Andy Scott, who joined Orient yesterday. Pitt is 22 years old, and was an apprentice at Chelsea when Rix was a coach there. Rix  [ more ]

It’s a new-look United that will take to the pitch on Saturday, as top-of-the-table Doncaster Rovers come to town. The game will be Graham Rix’s first in charge as temporary manager, and United fans are eagerly waiting to see what formation, line-up, and tactics the former Portsmouth boss will choose. Most Oxford supporters would hope  [ more ]

he might be some time. In fact he has now joined Leyton Orient on a one year contract. Scott was originally going to join Orient until the end of the season, but because he was carrying a slight injury, and so wouldn’t have been able to play in their defeat against Lincoln, the move was  [ more ]