By Tony Fallows The Oxford United camp are remaining upbeat this week as The Us line-up at the United Stadium to play the Grays Athletic machine. After Saturday

Oxford United today released three youth players, none of whom have been deemed worthy of a professional contract for next season. The three are goalkeeper James Foster, striker Chris Fower, and (most surprising of the lot) striker Alex Fisher. [@player]fisher, alex[/@player]Foster is currently playing at Abingdon United, while Fower has been on work experience at  [ more ]

From being just one place outside the play-offs on Saturday evening, Oxford United have plummeted four places without even playing a game. First, on Sunday, Crawley creeped above the Us by beating the Conference's newest whipping boys Weymouth 4-2. Then, today, an almost full Conference programme saw just about every result go against United as  [ more ]

Forest Green Rovers 3 Oxford United 3 Oxford United will be kicking themselves for failing to pick up the three points, as they led 2-0 through two James Constable penalties given within five minutes of each other in the first half, but then allowed Forest Green Rovers back into the game. In the second half  [ more ]

By Tony Fallows Oxford United are hoping that their fans outnumber their Gloucestershire counterparts on Saturday, and turn up in numbers to urge The Yellows over the finish line. United travel to Forest Green Rovers, and with United probably needing to win nine or ten of their last 11 matches to make the play-offs, this  [ more ]

Eastbourne Borough 0 Oxford United 3 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks, as they say. King Lear would have felt at home on the Eastbourne pitch, scrambling madly around while Goneril and Regan sheltered in the bar and Cordelia scored direct from a corner. Or was that Fool? Oh no, it was Adam Murray, in  [ more ]

By Tony Fallows Tuesday night is the first game of the rest of the season, with Oxford United travelling away to take on newly promoted Eastbourne Borough. Saturday

Oxford United 0 Torquay United 2 Oxford's biggest crowd of the season saw the side slump to their first Conference defeat of 2009, and their first home defeat since 20 September, when Crawley won 2-1. In a game which was ruined by some terrible refereeing, it was ultimately two defensive errors that cost the Yellows  [ more ]

Report by The Enforcer Fever 1-2 Reading Fever were edged out of this one by fierce local rivals Reading in a match that could easily have gone either way. With player-manager John Matthews sitting this one out through injury, an opportunity was presented to Rob Milne, who partnered Nick Wehmeier in attack. The Fuller-Sweeney partnership  [ more ]

By Tony Fallows The biggest sporting event of the weekend is kicking off on Saturday and the eyes of thousands will be watching. A 5.45pm start in front of the Setanta cameras will see Oxford United play their most important game of the season so far, against Torquay United. The former League match-up sees two  [ more ]