A strong Oxford reserve side beat a strongish Ipswich Town reserves 2-0 at Portman Road this afternoon. Sam Deering gave United the lead after just five minutes, when his free-kick was deflected past Arran Lee-Barrett. Richie Baker scored the second ten minutes before half-time when he volleyed home from Deering's header. Pretty much the whole [ more ]
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September 8, 2010Shankless task
September 5, 2010Raging Fever 2 Reading Fans 1 Report by George Dugdale Some things in life are taken for granted. The sun rising in the morning, Oxford being vastly superior to Swindon, and James Longshaw wearing the Fever number 7 shirt. In a shock that has left many questioning the world that they live in, on Saturday [ more ]
Yellows no more are beaten; now they begin to beat
September 4, 2010Oxford United 4 Morecambe 0 United finally got their first League win since April 2006, thrashing Morecambe thanks to James Constable
Time for Us to get wise
September 3, 2010Oxford welcome former Conference colleagues Morecambe to the Kas tomorrow as both teams look for their first League win of the season. Morecambe are two places and one point below Oxford in the nascent League table, having drawn two of their opening matches. On the road they have lost at Wycombe Wanderers and Burton Albion, [ more ]
Watching paint dry
August 31, 2010Aldershot 2 Oxford United 0 Chris Wilder made six changes to the side that failed to beat Accrington Stanley on Saturday, but they had little effect as United were second best to Aldershot to drip out of the Johnstone
Painting by numbers
August 31, 2010Oxford play their first game in the Johnstone
No tankards to help us excel, nor Stanley
August 28, 2010Oxford United 0 Accrington Stanley 0 United's first historic meeting with the long-elusive Accrington ended in a dull anti-climax this afternoon, as neither side had the wherewithal to break down the other's defence. Accrington proved very stubborn opposition, closing down Oxford's midfield with speed and not allowing any United player to settle on the ball. [ more ]
Still got the shakes
August 27, 2010Accrington Stanley visit Oxford for the first time tomorrow in a fixture that looked destined never to happen. The original Accrington went bust and resigned from the Football League in March 1962, paving the way for United
Cutting figures of pride
August 25, 2010West Ham United 1 Oxford United 0 Oxford bowed out of the League Cup last night in cruel fashion, as Scott Parker
Young guns go for it
August 24, 2010Chris Wilder takes his “youthful, athletic squad” to the Boleyn Ground this evening to play Wham in the League Cup second round, following United's 6-1 demolition job on Bristol Rovers in the first round. The Us have so far played twice on the road this season, keeping two clean sheets. The downside is that they [ more ]