With the New Year almost upon us, this seems an opportune time to take a quick glance back over the last twelve months. The year started with a 2-0 home win over Salisbury City, with debutant Reneil Sappleton scoring the second goal. This took United up to 11th place, nine points off a play-off spot  [ more ]

Oxford today signed left-sided centre-back Jake Wright on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion until the end of the season. Wright, who was born shortly before United's Milk Cup triumph in 1986, played for Crawley Town last season, alongside Dannie Bulman and Jamie Cook, and joined the Seagulls at the start of this season. Wright  [ more ]

Oxford United start 2010 with a visit to Rushden & Diamonds, the hybrid club born of Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds in 1992. The clubs were due to have played at the KasStad on Boxing Day, but that game was controversially postponed because of an allegedly frozen pitch, costing United a possible

Oxford United announced today that they have signed 28-year-old midfielder Lee Fowler. The former Kettering Town player was a free agent, having been released by the Poppies three days ago, allegedly because he was having problems travelling from his Cardiff home. Fowler has made 18 appearances for Kettering this season, having signed from Forest Green  [ more ]

Salisbury City Fans 1 Raging Fever 3 Report by James Longshaw Raging Fever got a long overdue game under freezing conditions in Wiltshire. With the pitch being right next to the stadium it was a good indicator as to whether the real game would go ahead, and despite the fact that both pitches were clearly  [ more ]

Salisbury City 1 Oxford United 1 United threw away two vital points this afternoon when they conceded a last minute equaliser to a desperately poor Salisbury side, having taken the lead just nine minutes earlier. The home side were awarded a throw in, despite the ball clearly having gone out of play off a Salisbury  [ more ]

Remember football? It seems like such a long time that Oxford were in action, especially in the Conference, that it's surprising to look at the table and see the Us still occupying top spot, albeit by a narrower margin than before. Tomorrow United will return to the pitch, ready to take up where they left  [ more ]

With United's game being called off, Stevenage Borough took full advantage to close the gap to just two points. Although Oxford have two games in hand on Borough, it would obviously be preferable to have the points. Stevenage came from behind to win 3-1 at Cambridge United, with Yemi Odubade scoring the first Borough goal  [ more ]

Despite the beautiful sunshine bathing east Oxford, and the several days of thaw in the area, today's game against Rushden & Diamonds, which would have seen almost 10,000 in attendance, has been called off because of a frozen pitch. Referee Brendan Malone ruled that the game is unplayable because of a narrow strip of ground  [ more ]

United are back in action on Boxing Day, three weeks after their last Conference game, in which they beat Ebbsfleet United 4-2. Since then the Us have been eliminated from the FA Cup at Barrow, but progressed in the FA Trophy at the expense of Hayes & Yeading United. The Hayes game was two weeks  [ more ]