Another Keith? United have expressed an interest in taking QPR's former West Ham defender Keith Rowland on loan, now that Keith Brown has returned to Barnsley. Rowland, 29, a Northern Ireland international, joined Westam from Bournemouth and Joe Kinnear has apparently approached Gerry Francis about his availability, although Kinnear stressed that the move has been  [ more ]

Players come, players go… Today saw some actual and potential movement of players to and from the Manor as left-back Keith Brown returned to Barnsley after a mixed spell with United and Norwegian goalkeeper Clas André Guttulsrød arrived on trial with a view to giving the beleaguered Richard Knight some respite. Guttulsrød (right), born on  [ more ]

Andrews extends United's on-loan midfielder Keith Andrews has had his loan period extended by a further month. Wolves manager Colin Lee claims that he feels another month at Oxford would be good for Andrews' development; well, it will certainly get him used to playing in a losing team, which will come in handy should Wolves  [ more ]

Cup tied United characteristically achieved defeat from the brink of victory at Conference club Chester today, converting a two goal surplus into a one goal deficit for the second time in a fortnight. Phil Gray put Oxford ahead, bundling home Chris Hackett's cross after twenty minutes, and a couple of minutes later Matt Murphy doubled  [ more ]

Tomorrow's another Deva United play Chester tomorrow more in hope than with confidence, and it is no exaggeration to suggest that it is the league side who could be considered underdogs. Chester are unbeaten in sixteen games since September whilst United, in stark contrast, are not. A few changes are anticipated from the side that  [ more ]

Well well, Wells not well ended Les Wells is seeking leave for a Judicial Review in a bid to either scupper the leisure and stadium development or possibly to receive some kind of deal from Firoz Kassam in order to make him go away. The possible Judicial Review is into the granting of detailed planning  [ more ]

Open and shut meeting United supporters packed the Social Club at the Manor tonight for the FOUL open meeting, attended by Firoz Kassam, Joe Kinnear and David Kemp. All three gave refreshingly, disarmingly, honest answers to the wide variety of questions fired at them by the assembled fans, some of which are worth repeating here.Kassam  [ more ]

Bus can score shock It's true, Steve Anthrobus scored a second half goal for United in their LDV Vans Trophy first round southern section clash at Griffin Park to shock the 1,517 crowd. They were somewhat less shocked by the four goals in reply that Brentford scored to knock the U's out of the competition.  [ more ]

Holes in the net United's internet presence will be sadly depleted as James Beard has decided to call it a day with his Save Oxford United site, at least temporarily. James' site was possibly the most frequently updated of all the Oxford sites and was many people's first port of call for their latest U's  [ more ]

United blow it (again) United continued their inexorable slide towards Division Three with a 3-2 defeat at Oldham today, despite being level three times. Oxford have now failed to win at Boundary Park in each of their fourteen attempts and this result leaves the U's seven points behind Luton (who won 3-1 at Stoke) and  [ more ]