Oxford announced their latest signing today, and there is unlikely to be a more popular one this close season. Glaswegian left-back Steven Kinniburgh, who had an immensely successful loan spell with the club earlier this season, has driven down to sign a two-year deal. In his last spell at United, Kinni played 15 games and [ more ]
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Steel added to the ranks
May 24, 2010Oh oh oh he’s magic
May 21, 2010Oxford United today secured the first signing of their three season-long loanees with the news that Elfie Potter has joined the club from Peterborough United on a two-year deal. Potter played 30 games for the Us last season, including 12 as a substitute, and he scored six goals, including that goal at Wembley that secured [ more ]
Tall as a Hall
May 20, 2010Oxford today announced their first close-season signing as 6'2″ attacking midfielder Asa Hall joined the ranks. Hall was most recently at Luton, from where he was released in March. Despite being from Kenilworth Road, Hall does have useful Football League experience now that he has joined a Football League club, having served a loan spell [ more ]
The Rage On ratings
May 17, 2010Amidst all the general excitedness of match report writing and reading just about every website in existence that mentions yesterday's game, we thought that it would be appropriate to give a Rage Online run-down of the day that made history for our football club. Pre-matchFrom our privileged position in the tunnel as the players were [ more ]
Oxford are back (hello, hello)
May 17, 2010Oxford United 3 York City 1 Goodbye Conference, hello Football League. Yesterday Oxford maintained their 100 per cent record at Wembley by beating York in the play-off final to earn a return to the League after four long, excruciating seasons of oblivion. In brief, United took the game to York and were two goals up [ more ]
Fate enters and talks in old words
May 15, 2010Tomorrow is destiny day. By the evening Oxford United will know whether they will be a Football League team again or a non-league side still. After all the build-up, all the anticipation, over 30,000 tickets sold to Oxford fans, United's future will come down to 90 or 120 minutes of football in north London. This [ more ]
Head to head, toe to toe, and cheek to cheek (but not eye to eye)
May 13, 2010United have played York 36 times before Sunday, the Us holding the upper hand with 18 wins to York
The Wembley way
May 12, 2010Wembley StadiumThe new Wembley Stadium opened in the Spring of 2007, with the FA Trophy final between Kidderminster Harriers and Stevenage Borough being the first competitive game at the venue. Mark Creighton and James Constable both played for Kidderminster, with Constable scoring the first two goals at the stadium, although Stevenage fought back to win [ more ]
Invisible connections bind us
May 11, 2010While York City can boast manager Martin Foyle as a former Oxford United player, the current Oxford squad contains no former York players. The most recent ex-Minsterman on United's books was Barnsley loanee Onome Sodje, who played five games and scored one goal at the end of last year, while Luke Foster, who left United [ more ]
Our Eyes Give it Shape
May 10, 2010Less than a week from now, Oxford United will know whether they will be a Football League side or will remain a Conference outfit. Meanwhile, both divisions are starting to take shape. Should United fail to win promotion, they now know that Grimsby Town, who lost 3-0 at Burton Albion on Saturday, have joined Darlington [ more ]