Burton Albion Fans 4 Raging Fever 12 Report by George Dugdale Following last week

Tomorrow sees the world restored to order: the planets are back on their axes; Pandoras toys are back in her box; Schrodinger's cat is, theoretically, back in his; Escher's stairs lead to the top of the tower; and United are back in the Football League. The visit to Burton Albion's Pirelli Stadium is about as  [ more ]

Banbury United 0 Oxford United 3 Oxford put aside their recent poor pre-season performances to turn over a disappointing Banbury side at the Spencer Stadium this evening. United went a goal up through a Sam Deering shot that Scott Cross, the goalkeeper on loan from Corby Town, should have done better with. The Us extended  [ more ]

Oxford today made another pre-season signing, in the shape of Chelsea reserves striker/midfielder Danny Philliskirk. The youngster, who has yet to play a first-team game for the Blues, has joined on an initial one-month loan; a strange neither-here-nor-there length of time that one can only assume is a sort of assessment period to determine if  [ more ]

Report by George Dugdale Raging Fever 5 Feltham Cowboys 0 Less than a week after concluding the previous season in Leeds, Fever

Oxford City 1 Oxford United 0 United went down to their third successive pre-season defeat in a hard-fought encounter at Court Place Farm. City scored in the 25th minute after a long-range shot from Elliot Sandy hit Leigh Franks on his back and looped over the stranded Ryan Clarke. The Us were wearing their new  [ more ]

Oxford United 1 Manchester United Reserves 2 It's just as well that in pre-season performances are more important than results, because United put in an excellent performance tonight against a young Manchester United reserves side, but were denied the result they deserved by some slack defending right at the death. There was drama at the  [ more ]

Brackley Town 1 Oxford United 0 Oxford United's unbeaten pre-season record came to a halt at St James Park this evening as Joe Power scored the only goal of the game with just six minutes remaining. Brackley almost featured as many ex-Oxford players as United did current Us, as the Oxford side contained a mixture  [ more ]

On Friday 23 July, Raging Fever FC made the familiar trip to Leeds to compete in the annual WorldNET tournament at Bodington Hall. Crucially, this season had seen a major change in the Fever squad structure. In the most shocking split since Oasis went their separate ways, Fever fielded teams in both the main and  [ more ]

Continued from Part 1 As the second-half kicked-off, Fever became aware of the wind that Preston had been so keen to mention in the first half and struggled to clear their lines on several occasions. With the ball holding up in the wind, Paul Soper did well to deal with through-balls that could have caused  [ more ]