By Tony Fallows Tuesday night is the first game of the rest of the season, with Oxford United travelling away to take on newly promoted Eastbourne Borough. Saturday
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Waiting for the breakthrough
March 2, 2009No life lies in the quicksand
February 28, 2009Oxford United 0 Torquay United 2 Oxford's biggest crowd of the season saw the side slump to their first Conference defeat of 2009, and their first home defeat since 20 September, when Crawley won 2-1. In a game which was ruined by some terrible refereeing, it was ultimately two defensive errors that cost the Yellows [ more ]
Fever fail to take the biscuit
February 28, 2009Report by The Enforcer Fever 1-2 Reading Fever were edged out of this one by fierce local rivals Reading in a match that could easily have gone either way. With player-manager John Matthews sitting this one out through injury, an opportunity was presented to Rob Milne, who partnered Nick Wehmeier in attack. The Fuller-Sweeney partnership [ more ]
Electric Yellow
February 27, 2009By Tony Fallows The biggest sporting event of the weekend is kicking off on Saturday and the eyes of thousands will be watching. A 5.45pm start in front of the Setanta cameras will see Oxford United play their most important game of the season so far, against Torquay United. The former League match-up sees two [ more ]
Senior moments
February 24, 2009Oxford United beat Old Woodstock Town 3-1 after extra time this evening in the Oxfordshire Senior Cup quarter-final at Abingdon Town's Northcourt Road ground, where the Woodstock side play their home games. This was the clubs' first competitive meeting, and the Woodstock side, managed by United's Youth and Community General Manager Simon Lenagan, gave a [ more ]
Oxen gore the Stags
February 21, 2009Oxford United 1 Mansfield Town 0 Oxford United faced their toughest test since Chris Wilder took over, and came through it with flying colours thanks to a strike on the hour by Craig Nelthorpe, scoring his first goal for United. This made it seven straight home wins for United who are starting to look good [ more ]
The Duff Man cometh
February 20, 2009By Tony Fallows The Oxford United juggernaut keeps chugging along and the next target for Chris Wilder
Roll out the Farrell
February 15, 2009Oxford United 3 Barrow 0 Three second-half goals earned Oxford a deserved win over Barrow this afternoon. Substitute Craig Farrell started the ball rolling in the 62nd minute, with Lewis Haldane netting the second in the 79th minute, and second substitute Yemi Odubade completing the job five minutes from time. The first half was fairly [ more ]
The Barrow march
February 13, 2009By Tony Fallows James Constable returns for Oxford United tomorrow and he will be hoping to continue his fantastic scoring record at The United Stadium. Constable would take his tally to eight home goals in a row if he were to net against Barrow. The Us owe one to Barrow after suffering a humiliating 3-0 [ more ]
Opium for the people
February 6, 2009By Tony Fallows Oh forget it, the game's been called off. Bookmark this and read it again on Tuesday, which is when they're hoping to play. Oxford United look to continue their march up the table on Saturday as they visit fellow play-off hopefuls Kettering Town. The Northamptonshire based club are doing their best to [ more ]