Fever 2 Bury 5 Fever took to the pitch rather like Norwich, Crystal Palace & West Bromwich Albion in that they were looking for their first win of the season. With a new player/manager in place and debutant Paul Lucas wearing striking yellow boots, there was an air of confidence amongst the ranks. This enthusiasm  [ more ]

Steve Basham scored his first goal of the season as United put last week’s humiliation behind them to beat Bury 3-1 at Minchery Farm this afternoon. Bash struck five minutes before half-time following a low Tommy Mooney cross from the right wing, his low shot was close to Glyn Garner, but the keeper couldn’t get  [ more ]

Midfielder Jamie Hand has extended his loan spell from Watford for a further month, which is good news. Hand was due to return to the Hornets after this Saturday’s game against Bury, but with Barry Quinn still not ready to return, and other injury worries in midfield too (notably Chris Hackett and Tom Winters) Oxford  [ more ]

In a specially arranged behind-closed-doors game this afternoon, United’s reserves drew 2-2 with Luton at Kenilworth Road. Oxford went into a half-time two-goal lead, thanks to the ROS Chris Hackett who scored the first goal and then had his cross/shot turned into his own net by a Luton defender. With the United players tiring towards  [ more ]

United went down to their worst defeat since conceding six goals at Bristol Rovers in April 2001, as Yeovil hammered the Us 6-1 at Huish Park. The first twenty minutes weren’t too bad, as Tommy Mooney forced Chris Weale into four saves, and even at half-time, with the score at 1-0 to the home side  [ more ]

A football league tribunal ruled earlier today that Sunderland need to pay United ?150,000 immediately for the signing of Dean Whitehead. In addition, Sunderland will need to pay a further ?15,000 for each ten appearances Deano makes for their first team, up to 50 appearances, a further ?100,000 should the Black Cats get promotion to  [ more ]

United maintained their unbeaten league run, now stretching to seven games, but will be regretting being held to a goalless draw by a poor, but resolute, Rushden & Diamonds side. This was a poor game, characterised by United’s first shot on target coming from Rob Wolleaston in first half injury time, and Rushden’s first corner  [ more ]

Firstly, Rage Online would like to apologise for the apparent lack of updates recently – the server on which our site is hosted crashed on Tuesday, and our service provider only partially restored the data. We have now managed to input most of the missing data (Wycombe match report should be back up this evening),  [ more ]

United achieved their first away win of the season, indeed their first away win of the calendar year, at Meadow Lane this afternoon, to ensure maximum points from the bank holiday weekend and generally spread an aura of happiness and well-being throughout the land of Oxfordshire. Lee Bradbury scored his second goal on consecutive games  [ more ]

United visit Notts County tomorrow afternoon, looking for their first away win under Graham Rix. Indeed, Oxford haven’t won on the road this year, their last win coming at Roots Hall on December 28th. The Us will be going into this game full of confidence following yesterday’s win over Shrewsbury, not just for the result,  [ more ]