Kassam's playground Oxford United have informed the waiting masses that the official name for the new ground is to be the Kassam Stadium after, umm, club chairman Firoz Kassam. Presumably this exercise in megalomania is a result of an inability to find a corporate sponsor to invest untold millions in the ground rather than, as  [ more ]

United fell to their 33rd league defeat of the season, conceding their 100th goal in the process, going down 2-1 at Notts County. Typically United took the lead through the Rage On Sponsored Rob Folland, who followed in a Jamie Brooks shot in the 18th minute. David Joseph equalised in the 35th minute before a  [ more ]

Notts County preview Tomorrow United visit Meadow Lane for the last game of their worst ever season in a fixture rendered pointless (probably literally) due to both Oxford's and Notts County's status for next season already assured. Caretaker boss Mike Ford will probably stick with a youthful line-up, as indicated by his team selection for  [ more ]

Reserves go down at QPR United's reserves lost their final match of the season 3-2 at Loftus Road this afternoon. QPR were by far the better team and only the impressive keeping of Oxford's Richard Knight prevented QPR from winning by a greater margin.Rangers opened the scoring after 17 minutes through Ross Weare who beat  [ more ]

Farewell Kemp, farewell McLeary, farewell MANOR Now things have settled down and the tears have been dried we can give a more detailed summary of yesterday's events.Kemp OutShortly before the commencement of the club's Annual General Meeting it was revealed that David Kemp and Alan McLeary would be leaving United 'by mutual consent' (oh yeah?).  [ more ]

Vale of tears (sorry) The last ever league match at the Manor ended in a tame 1-1 draw, Andy Scott scoring for United nine minutes from time before Richard Knight let in a soft shot under his body in the last minute. A more detailed update and a match report will be posted later on  [ more ]

Oxford's Brooks lesson United beat fellow Third Division outfit Swansea City 3-1 at the Manor today to secure their second double of the season. Oxford took the lead in the 10th minute after Jamie Brooks showed his colleagues how to run at a defence. His shot came back off the inside of the post but  [ more ]

Division Three preview United welcome Swansea to the Manor tomorrow in a game which could give a pointer to how they'll both fare next season, one division lower. Swansea are ten points ahead of United in penultimate place.United will be without Phil Gray for the rest of the season and there are doubts over Jon  [ more ]

Relegation waters less muddy Port Vale won 2-0 at Northampton to ensure that they can't go down this season. Wycombe also won 2-0 away, at Notts County, to move to within just two points of safety, meaning that the battle for the fourth relegation spot, and the honour of joining United next season, is now  [ more ]

Who's next? As speculation about David Kemp's untenable position as United's manager continues to mount, Rage Online takes a look at potential candidates to lead United out of the wilderness and back to the glory years: David Kemp – no chance Denis Smith – next to no chance Roy MacFarland – an anonymous phone-call to  [ more ]