Kettering Town 1 Oxford United 2 Oxford United brought themselves right back into contention for the play-offs tonight with an important win at Kettering Town. The Us had a perfect start and were 2-0 up within eight minutes. It got better for United after The Poppies were reduced to ten men when Craig Westcarr pushed  [ more ]

By Tony Fallows It

Following tonight's results in the Conference, United's very faint chances of reaching the play-offs became that much fainter as, predictably, all the teams around Oxford picked up maximum points. Kettering Town, whom United visit on Thursday, achieved a narrow 1-0 win over bottom side Lewes. This leaves the Poppies level on points with the Us,  [ more ]

Oxford United 4 Grays Athletic 1 United eased to victory against relegation-threatened Grays Athletic this afternoon in a game that was marred by a serious injury to Grays goalie Rob Beckwith. The first half was possibly one of the most incident-packed 75 minutes seen at the United Stadium, with goals, injuries, sendings off, and other  [ more ]

By Tony Fallows The Oxford United camp are remaining upbeat this week as The Us line-up at the United Stadium to play the Grays Athletic machine. After Saturday

Oxford United today released three youth players, none of whom have been deemed worthy of a professional contract for next season. The three are goalkeeper James Foster, striker Chris Fower, and (most surprising of the lot) striker Alex Fisher. [@player]fisher, alex[/@player]Foster is currently playing at Abingdon United, while Fower has been on work experience at  [ more ]

From being just one place outside the play-offs on Saturday evening, Oxford United have plummeted four places without even playing a game. First, on Sunday, Crawley creeped above the Us by beating the Conference's newest whipping boys Weymouth 4-2. Then, today, an almost full Conference programme saw just about every result go against United as  [ more ]

Forest Green Rovers 3 Oxford United 3 Oxford United will be kicking themselves for failing to pick up the three points, as they led 2-0 through two James Constable penalties given within five minutes of each other in the first half, but then allowed Forest Green Rovers back into the game. In the second half  [ more ]

By Tony Fallows Oxford United are hoping that their fans outnumber their Gloucestershire counterparts on Saturday, and turn up in numbers to urge The Yellows over the finish line. United travel to Forest Green Rovers, and with United probably needing to win nine or ten of their last 11 matches to make the play-offs, this  [ more ]

Eastbourne Borough 0 Oxford United 3 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks, as they say. King Lear would have felt at home on the Eastbourne pitch, scrambling madly around while Goneril and Regan sheltered in the bar and Cordelia scored direct from a corner. Or was that Fool? Oh no, it was Adam Murray, in  [ more ]