Ramon Diaz started his Oxford United reign with a win, that wasn’t as comfortable as it should have been, over second-bottom Cambridge United. The Us stormed into a two-goal first half lead, and were looking good to increase that scoreline, but they became nervous and edgy in the second half, and tried to hang on  [ more ]

Ramon takes charge of Oxford United for the first time tomorrow, as fellow relegation candidates Cambridge United visit the KasStad. Most attention will probably fall on the dugout, though, as Ramon and his crew struggle to squeeze into the available seats. With Diaz only able to take one training session so far, albeit a fairly  [ more ]

Totally out of the blue. United’s new manager isn’t, as widely anticipated, Chris Turner, but is instead former Argentina striker Ramon Angel Diaz, lately of Japanese outfit Yokohama F Marinos. Since leaving Japan, in 1995, Diaz had a lengthy spell as coach to River Plate, with whom he won five Argentinian championships and the Copa  [ more ]

Oxford were unlucky to lose a fairly even game at the KasStad this evening, and eventually only succumbed to high-flying Swansea after Jon Ashton was harshly sent off for two yellow cards. From the free kick that resulted Mark Goodfellow headed home the only goal of the game, just past the hour mark. Swansea had  [ more ]

Oxford are back in action tomorrow evening after a ten-day absence from footy action. Indeed, there hasn’t been any action at all worth reporting from the KasStad, as United remain under the caretakership of Darren Patterson. Chris Turner is the current hot favourite for the manager’s job after a report in today’s Daily Mirror that  [ more ]

A tough game saw United, wearing their all-black away kit, battle hard at Chester and come away with three deserved points. Oxford took an early lead with Mark E’Beyer, playing on the right wing, scoring his first goal for the club just 16 minutes into the game. Unfortunately it all looked like it was going  [ more ]

It’s off to the Deva Stadium for managerless United this weekend, with caretaker Darren Patterson hoping that he can turn around the current run of crap results. At the time of writing no new players have been brought in to the squad, despite alleged attempts to entice at least two players to join the ranks  [ more ]

Raging Fever played a friendly against Hull supporters, on their way down the A420, this morning, seeing as Rochdale don’t have a fans’ team. Fever started brightly and totally dominated the first half, creating chance after chance, while Hull only had one effort on goal, which went harmlessly wide. Raging Fever took a 2-0 lead  [ more ]

For the second time in eight days Rochdale beat United thanks to a last minute goal. This time Oxford failed to clear a corner properly, and a shot came back off the post, hit goalie Chris Tardif, and went in for the cruellest of own goals. This in itself was disappointing enough, but the really  [ more ]

For the second consecutive Saturday Oxford are forced to play against Rochdale. Demeaning enough in itself, but this match comes hot on the heels of United’s defeat in the FA Cup to this little-known Mancunian suburb. Of course, this time round the game could be regarded as the start of a new era, or the  [ more ]