With the festive period almost ‘pon us, it seems reasonable to get this preview written before the effects of the over-indulgences take hold. We can’t promise the same restraint for forthcoming matches. The first game takes place on Sunday, in the rural Northants hamlet of Irthlingborough, home to hobbits and Doc Martens. Opponents Rushden &  [ more ]

A 52nd minute goal from Tommy Mooney rescued a deserved point for United in the frozen wasteland of north Lincolnshire last night. Mooney pounced to hammer home the rebound after a Lee Bradbury shot came back off the underside of the bar. Grimsby had taken a first half lead through Colin Cramb after 18 minutes.  [ more ]

In the fourth division Mansfield won 2-0 at Shrewsbury to move back above Oxford (and Grimsby), leaving the Yellows in 18th place. The Shrews remain third from bottom as last club Kidderminster lost 2-0 at Cheltenham, and had Wayne Hatswell sent off to add to their woes, and second-bottom Cambridge managed to draw 1-1 with  [ more ]

Ramon Diaz faces his first away game in charge of United tomorrow, in the exotic surroundings of North Lincolnshire. There can’t be too many Argentinian World Cup strikers who have graced the dugout at Blundell Park, and by the same token, there can’t be too many teams of Grimsby’s grandeur that Diaz has faced. However,  [ more ]

Ramon Diaz started his Oxford United reign with a win, that wasn’t as comfortable as it should have been, over second-bottom Cambridge United. The Us stormed into a two-goal first half lead, and were looking good to increase that scoreline, but they became nervous and edgy in the second half, and tried to hang on  [ more ]

Ramon takes charge of Oxford United for the first time tomorrow, as fellow relegation candidates Cambridge United visit the KasStad. Most attention will probably fall on the dugout, though, as Ramon and his crew struggle to squeeze into the available seats. With Diaz only able to take one training session so far, albeit a fairly  [ more ]

Totally out of the blue. United’s new manager isn’t, as widely anticipated, Chris Turner, but is instead former Argentina striker Ramon Angel Diaz, lately of Japanese outfit Yokohama F Marinos. Since leaving Japan, in 1995, Diaz had a lengthy spell as coach to River Plate, with whom he won five Argentinian championships and the Copa  [ more ]

Oxford were unlucky to lose a fairly even game at the KasStad this evening, and eventually only succumbed to high-flying Swansea after Jon Ashton was harshly sent off for two yellow cards. From the free kick that resulted Mark Goodfellow headed home the only goal of the game, just past the hour mark. Swansea had  [ more ]

Oxford are back in action tomorrow evening after a ten-day absence from footy action. Indeed, there hasn’t been any action at all worth reporting from the KasStad, as United remain under the caretakership of Darren Patterson. Chris Turner is the current hot favourite for the manager’s job after a report in today’s Daily Mirror that  [ more ]

A tough game saw United, wearing their all-black away kit, battle hard at Chester and come away with three deserved points. Oxford took an early lead with Mark E’Beyer, playing on the right wing, scoring his first goal for the club just 16 minutes into the game. Unfortunately it all looked like it was going  [ more ]